Friday, May 12, 2023
Today’s Gift from Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is:
Come, Love! Sing on! Let me hear you sing this song — sing for joy and laugh.
— Mechthild of Magdeburg
We have all known people whose lightness of spirit was a delight to us. That quality of “lightness” was expressed by one recovering addict in a dream she had where she floated to the ceiling of her room like a balloon. Letting go of our will and ego is a spiritual process that happens gradually. It results in a lightness that brings freedom to our lives and joy to others.
We can know we have lightened up if we see the humor in life. If we feel serene and don’t care about having things our own way, we live with ease. Another person expressed it like this: “I was outside blowing bubbles with my daughter when I said, ‘Look how they catch the light. The light is already there, all around, but it needs the bubbles to be seen.'”
I am the bubble; God is the light. To have a light spirit is to have a transparency that enables the spiritual to become visible.
Where is my spirituality? Am I in the realm of light? Today I will let myself go to my Higher Power.
Hazelden Foundation
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