Transition into Love
As we approach the New Year we can see the transition we have been going through in these tumultuous times. One way to describe it is we are shifting from striving to be in control, to engaging instead. The business world is demonstrating this very graphically with social media revolutionizing the whole field. Engaging requires letting go of our investment in having things take on the particular forms we are invested in, that we believe we are in control of.
Stock piling resources, and building empires, and creating “foolproof” strategies — only to have the stock market tumble, home values bottom out, and the financial world destabilize. How many symbols of being in control have you lost this year? Your house? Your job? Your retirement funds? Your relationship? Have you been trying to regain that control in order to lean on it again for your stability? Or have you been allowing the loss of it to reshape you, to transform you, to shift how you are looking at and approaching life itself?
There is no safety or stability in being in control. But that is not a lesson the world could learn as long as the old ways of doing things seemed to be working. Really engaging is the opposite of control. It is putting the truth out there to be seen. It is a process of vulnerably being present with each other and life itself. This is giving up the control to a larger truth and reality than human control, and finding out that this larger source is based in love.
The bottom line of what this transition requires is love. It takes love to let go of trying to control our experience, and to engage in life instead. It takes a recognition of the love that’s all around, which is the ultimate gift.
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