{"id":18727,"date":"2020-04-09T09:36:14","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T13:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=18727"},"modified":"2020-04-09T09:36:14","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T13:36:14","slug":"passing-over-to-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=18727","title":{"rendered":"Passing Over to Life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Reality Initiating Us:<br>\nPart Two&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Lesson\nFour: Passing Over to Life&nbsp;<\/strong><br>\nThursday,\u202f&nbsp;April 9, 2020\u202f&nbsp;<br>\n<em>Holy Thursday<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kqUYvOkyTmU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n<p>It is true that you are not in control, for\n\u201ccan any of you, for all your worrying, add a single moment to your span of\nlife?\u201d (Luke 12:25-26).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If we cannot control life and death, why do we spend so\nmuch time trying to control smaller outcomes? Call it destiny, providence,\nguidance, synchronicity, or coincidence, but people who are connected to the\nSource do not need to steer their own life and agenda. They know that it is\nbeing done for them in a much better way than they ever could. Those who hand\nthemselves over are received, and the flow happens through them. Those who\ndon\u2019t relinquish control are still received, but they significantly slow down\nthe natural flow of Spirit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When we set ourselves up to think we deserve, expect, or\nneed certain things to happen, we are setting ourselves up for constant\nunhappiness and a final inability to enjoy or at least allow what is going to\nhappen anyway. After a while, we find ourselves resisting almost everything at\nsome level. It is a terrible way to live. Giving up control is a school to\nlearn union, compassion, and understanding. It is ultimately a school for the\nfinal letting go that we call death. Right now, as we face social restrictions,\neconomic fragility, and the vulnerability of our own bodies, is there something\ndeeper that you can surrender to, that can ground you in disruption?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Surrendering to the divine flow is not about giving in,\ncapitulating, becoming a puppet, being na\u00efve, irresponsible, or stopping all\nplanning and thinking. Surrender is about a peaceful inner opening that keeps\nthe conduit of living water flowing to love. But do know this: every time we\nsurrender to love, we have also just chosen to die. Every time we let love\norient us, we are letting go of ourselves as an autonomous unit and have given\na bit of ourselves away to something or someone else, and it is not easily\nretrieved\u2014unless we choose to stop loving\u2014which many do. But even then, when\nthat expanded Self wants to retreat back into itself, it realizes it is trapped\nin a much larger truth now. And Love wins again.\n\nJesus surely had a\ndozen good reasons why he should not have had to die so young, so unsuccessful\nat that point, and the Son of God besides! By becoming the Passover Lamb, plus\nthe foot-washing servant, Jesus makes God\u2019s revelation human, personal, clear\nand quite concrete. Jesus is handed over to the religious and political\npowers-that-be, and we must be handed over to God from our power, privilege,\nand need for control. Otherwise, we will never grow up, or participate in the\nMystery of God and Love. It really is about \u201cpassing over\u201d to a deeper faith\nand life.\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reality Initiating Us: Part Two&nbsp; Lesson Four: Passing Over to Life&nbsp; Thursday,\u202f&nbsp;April 9, 2020\u202f&nbsp; Holy Thursday It is true that you are not in control, for \u201ccan any of you, for all your worrying, add a single moment to your span of life?\u201d (Luke 12:25-26). 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