Miracles News

January-March, 2006

Letting Go: A New Beginning

by Rev. Cheryl Ford

I am honestly at a complete loss for what is supposed to be happening in my life right now. I’m asking but not receiving any clear direction other than trust. Trusting is very hard for me because each day something else seems to take a new direction. It’s like a purging of all of my attachments, even people that are dear to me.

Much of this doesn’t seem to be happening by my own choice, other than my desire to follow God’s Will for my life. Why aren’t I able to trust and let go? I guess I’m afraid. Yet at this moment I feel that I have nothing and no one save Holy Spirit’s Voice.

In fact, due to even more unexpected developments in my finances and close personal relationships, I find myself feeling that I’m balancing on a precipice, surrounded by the clouds that Jesus once helped me transcend. Everything that seemed familiar and comfortable to me is gone, or fading.

Yet, I must once and for all entirely let go of the past and fully open to the present along with whatever it entails for the future.

Spirit has thankfully provided a strategy that can help me get to the other side if I follow His instructions. The Course urges: “Simply do this: Be still, and lay aside all thoughts of what you are and what God is; all concepts you have learned about the world; all images you hold about yourself. Empty your mind of everything it thinks is either true or false, or good or bad, of every thought it judges worthy, and all of the ideas of which it is ashamed. Hold onto nothing. Do not bring with you one thought the past has taught, nor one belief you ever learned before from anything. Forget this world, forget this course, and come with wholly empty hands onto your God.” (W-pI.189.7)

In a way, I feel like a symbolic crucifixion is occurring in my life. After all, Jesus came to teach us that we were wrong about everything we ever believed about our world, ourselves, God and our relationship to him and one another.

In this wisdom, Jesus explained that it’s important for us to let go and understand that we may come to a point in our lives (spiritual and physical) where we realize that nothing in this world makes any sense, yet we can know we are safe and secure in God’s Divine Love.

At this juncture He encourages us to pray: “Father, we do not know the way to You. But we have called, and You have answered us. We will not interfere.

Salvation’s ways are not our own, for they belong to You. And it is unto You we look for them. Our hands are open to receive Your gifts. We have no thoughts we think apart from you, and cherish no beliefs of what we think we are, or Who created us. Yours is the way we would find and follow. And we ask but that Your Will, which is our own as well, be done in us and in the world, that it become a part of Heaven now. Amen. (W-pI.189.10; italics omitted).

Does this mean that I will arise on “Easter morning” all fresh and new in a metaphorical resurrection? I hope. It would make it all more worth it…

However, if I could just emerge balanced, loving, trusting and joyful, I would be truly grateful!

On this note, I will willingly do my best to let go of all of the things and people that seem to be making their exodus from my life. Still, I will hold a loving place for them as they find their own ways along the journey we began together so many years or lifetimes ago.

Rev. Cheryl Ford is a Pathways of Light minister now living in Birmingham, England. Read more of her inspiring Healing Journal articles on the Pathways of Light web site.

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