Let Go & Let God

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Hello, everyone, and Happy New Year! I‘m Sr. Vassa, and this is just a short Coffee Break. Today,
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zillions, I‘d like to reflect with you, briefly, on a phrase I heard my sister say
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recently, that probably you've heard before, but I've never heard it before:
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"Let go and let God". Now, I thought to myself when she said that,
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that's, actually, a very good New Year‘s resolution.
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If there are uncontrollable situations in our lives right now, uncontrollable people
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– and hopefully, we realize that we have uncontrollable people in our lives,
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because we should neither believe that we control people,
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nor seek to control them. Because, if you do want
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a relationship you can entirely control, than get a stuffed animal.
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I opted for the stuffed animal, as you see.
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But if we are praying the Lord‘s Prayer and I don't mean just saying it, but deeply praying it,
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on a daily basis saying:
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“Thy kingdom come“ and “Thy will be done“ in a way that sincerely hands over
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into the loving hands of God every situation and every human being in our lives right now
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– then we will find, zillions, that our self-imposed burden of needing to control everything will
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be lightened. We will feel that we fall, so to say, into the safety-net that is God‘s
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grace. And it‘s always there, you know, but we need to really pray for it, in order
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to open ourselves up to it.
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Because God does not impose Himself upon us.
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He did not, after all, create us to be puppets or robots. He created us to learn and stretch
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toward His sunlight, which is grace, so that we can grow. Because this divine energy that
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we call grace is what helps us, what keeps us on a daily basis on track,
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and what, ultimately, saves us.
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As we repeatedly say in the words of Byzantine liturgical services, “Help us, save us, have mercy
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on us, and keep us, O God, by Your grace.“ So let‘s stretch toward the sun-light today,
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zillions, letting go and letting God, in prayer. But I have to let all of you go for now,
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and I hope to see you next time!

SV-10 - Let Go & Let God/Russian