I recently blogged about Cynthia Bourgeault's talk on wisdom ways of knowing.
In her expansive wonderings of the heart, the instrument "par excellence of wisdom," she connected our heart's ability to know deeply. We are to obey the heart - which means to listen from the depths. It is the heart, she states, that is perfect and our work is to get in touch with the heart and to explore any places where the signals to the heart "get jammed."
So how do we open our heart?
This question has been stewing in my spiritual crockpot ever since.
In Philippians, St. Paul writes about Jesus' ability to have the same mind as in Christ, and not cling to God. He emptied himself... perhaps this is the secret of his teaching - to not grab on.
My morning silent prayer time is strengthening this open-my-heart and learn-to-let go muscle. It's a paradox of allowing openness while detaching from the outcome.
So today, I pray to let go, with love.
What are you not clinging onto, in this moment?
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