Two of the most important actions we can use for moving through life are letting go and letting come.

There are many old things we have to let go of if we’re going to be free to receive the new.  New learning asks that I leave an old paradigm behind – perhaps that we are using the resources of 1.5 planets at the moment and something’s going to snap.  Perhaps there’s something emerging behind the nation state and we’re being asked to put down an old political understanding for a new.

On the most personal note, when we see our talents and passions and experiences in a new way, an old way of living will need to be put down in order to take up the call of a new path.

In a meditation, Kerry Hellcoat repeats the refrain “If you must,” concluding with:

‘And above all, if you must:
shine!’*

This must or must-ness is the essence of what we need to let come.

We’ll each need to find a way of making this letting go and letting come possible over and over again.  More like a vessel to transport us into the emerging future.  Answers can be helpful but:

Perhaps what emerges from our questioning is not so much an answer but a story.

A great story can frame all that we are and have and must do.

Check this out, from Seth Godin today:

‘The realest thing in our lives.  Are the stories we invent.  We live with these stories, we remind ourselves of them, we perfect them.  And, happily, if you don’t like the story you’re telling yourself, you can change it.’**

(*Kerry Hillcoat, from the Northumbria Community‘s Morning Prayer for 20/2/16)
(**From Seth Godin’s blog for today.)