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“Light in the Shadows”: Meditations While Living with a Life-Threatening Illness, Second Edition

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 - Letting go is victory - 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