Giving Up, Letting Go, and Letting Be, By Hank Dunn
— Giving up implies a struggle…
Letting go implies a partnership…
Letting be implies, in reality, there is nothing that separates.
— Giving up says there is something to lose…
Letting go says there is something to gain…
Letting be says it doesn’t matter.
— Giving up dreads the future…
Letting go looks forward to the future…
Letting be accepts the present as the only moment I ever have.
— Giving up lives out of fear…
Letting go lives out of grace and trust…
Letting be just lives.
— Giving up is defeat at the hands of suffering…
Letting go is victory over suffering…
Letting be knows suffering is often in my own mind in the first place.
— Giving up is unwillingly yielding control to forces beyond myself…
Letting go is choosing to yield to forces beyond myself…
Letting be acknowledges that control and choices can be illusions.
— Giving up believes that God is to be feared…
Letting go trusts in God to care for me…
Letting be never asks the question.
This poem can be found in both Hard Choices for Loving People and Light in the Shadows.
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