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Today's
Meditation:
Possibly
the oldest issue known to humankind is that of
control. How much energy and time do we spend trying
to make things turn out the way that we think they
should? How many hours of anger and frustration have
we spent because our efforts have failed, and things
turned out some other way instead of the way we wanted
them to?
Letting
life do what life wants to do sounds too passive to many
of us--it almost sounds defeatist to say that we're not
going to try to get our way or do something that we really
want to do. But our desire to control outcomes leads
to a great loss of peace for us, as will usually happen
when there is a lack of balance. In this case, the
lost balance is between what we want as an outcome and
what the actual outcome is. If we don't try to
impose our will on life, though, and we acknowledge the
fact that not everything we want is for the best, then we
can find that balance between wanting and accepting
something that is really outside of our wants. And
then we will experience the peace that is meant to be
ours.
There's
a lot to be said for letting things happen as they
will. Scientists would have it no other way, for
that's the only way that they can observe phenomena and
learn how they work. If we let things happen as they
will, we can learn a lot about people we know and their
wants and needs and strengths and weaknesses, and the more
we learn about them the more we can help them when they
need our help. And isn't that one of the best
reasons to learn anything--to gain the ability to help
when help is needed and we're available?
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