sunday service 8.20.17

This has been a heavy week. For me. For the world it seems.

I told a friend yesterday, “I feel slippery like I can’t hold on to anything.”

It occurs to me now that feeling slippery is a message. “Stop trying to hold everything. Let go…”

Let go of the control, the perfection, the striving. Let go of the thought that things have to make sense, be in order, or fall in a straight line. Let go of my plans, my timing, my desire for faster, better, nicer.

Let go of the never-ending-ness of dirty dishes, piles of laundry, poopy litterboxes, grass a little too long. Let go cracks in the driveway, stain on the carpet, spider on the ceiling.

Let go disappointment.
Let go grief.
Let go loneliness.
Let go mistakes.
Let go aching.
Let go words that won’t come.

YOUR TURN

Sunday Service is a recurring community feature and you are invited to join the party!

Regardless of faith, prayer is a beautiful thing. It can be grateful, it can be joyful, it can be a question, it can be a song. This is a place where your writing can be your prayer, an open door for higher wisdom to ‘runneth over.’

Use the post to the right as an invitation to write your own Sunday Service or capture an image that elicits a stirring in your soul. Keep it short, make it washed in your truth. Write it for you, not for us.

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