Today, in the midst of our uneasy culture that appears to be dominated by casual brutality, military corruption, life cheapened by the lust for control over its every aspect, and the destruction of the biosphere, we are still confronted with outward and visible signs of an immense inward and spiritual grace, a gift of the Holy Spirit, which is the possibility to choose to let go.

Today, in the midst of our uneasy culture that appears to be dominated by casual brutality, military corruption, life cheapened by the lust for control over its every aspect, and the destruction of the biosphere, we are still confronted with outward and visible signs of an immense inward and spiritual grace, a gift of the Holy Spirit, which is the possibility to choose to let go.

Out letting go, particularly of the wish to isolate and elevate ourselves by controlling and scapegoating others, is a small part of this offering. It is a holocaust of greed and security, things familiar and therefore safe, concepts of self, of how things ought to be and never will, of how they might have been ...

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