Memories are beautiful threads that connect who we were with who we are and what we can become. The trick is not to let those threads tie us down, but rather to use them to weave a tapestry that both comforts and supports us. The following quote from Joan Chittister seems appropriate as we close out this Memorial Day weekend. I think Joan's words speak to this holding on and letting go.
"But the truth remains: Nothing lasts. No single thing can consume our entire life's meaning. No single thing can give us total satisfaction. Nothing is worth everything: neither past, nor present nor future. It isn't true that the loss of any single thing will destroy us. Everything in life has some value and life is full of valuable things, things worth living for, things worth doing, things worth becoming, things worth loving again. It is only a matter of being detached enough from one thing to be open to everything else.The essence of life is not to find the one thing that satisfies us but to realize that nothing can ever completely satisfy us. And that's all right."
Are you holding on to something too tightly? What else are you letting go as a result?
[Source: Scarred by Struggle, Transformed by Hope by Joan D. Chittister. William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company ©2003.]
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