Let it go….Remember who you are.

All you parents are bursting into song, aren’t you!? I’m the only one who hasn’t seen Frozen. Ha!

I was just looking at Holy Shift! 365 Daily Meditations from A Course In Miracles and I thought today’s was really good. It’s all about letting go.

It is as sure that those who hold grievances
will redefine God in their own image, as it is
certain that God created them like Himself,
and defined them as part of him.

It is as sure that those who hold grievances
will suffer guilt, as it is that those
who forgive will find peace.

It is as sure that those who hold grievances
will forget who they are, as it is certain
that those who forgive will remember.

Workbook p. I. Lesson 68 3:1-3

When we hold a grudge or guilt ( a “grievance”), we let that grievance become who we are. Say you get in a fight with someone and you stop hanging out with your group of friends in the fear that you might see the person you fell out with, or you dwell so heavily on the grievance it begins to run your life by becoming all you think about. We have to let our grievances go.

I think what we all need to acknowledge is that forgiveness really is a gift that we give to ourselves. We have to assume that everyone is doing the best they can based on their current level of consciousness, and rather than looking upon these people with blame, or through the lens that they have “wronged” us, we should look upon them instead with compassion. They have made the choices they have made and we have made the choices we have made based on their own perception, and no two people see the world through the exact same lens. Each person adds a different flavour to situations. You can have 5 people in the same room and something can happen where all 5 would perceive it differently.

So much can be gained from letting go. I read an interesting little story about two monks crossing a river. They are walking along doing their Monk stuff (for some reason I have just started singing hey, hey we’re the Monkees, but that’s not part of the story), and they come to a river. There is a woman at the river and she needs help crossing. One of the monks carries the woman across the river, then puts her down on the other side. The monks and the woman carry on in different directions on their merry way. Finally the monk who didn’t carry the lady across the river says, “I can’t believe you broke your vow never to touch a woman.” The monk who carried the lady responded, “Yes, but it is you who are still carrying her.”

I thought that was powerful and tied in well with today’s meditation from Holy Shift. Who or what are you carrying? What can you let go? How can you empower yourself by forgiving and releasing that energy?

Remember your divinity and let it go. Don’t drink poison and expect your enemy to die. Forgiveness is for the greater good of all involved.

When we forgive and let go, we find peace. We forget who we really are as divine beings. Through forgiveness we remember our divinity.