Let go. Is this not the hardest lesson to learn?

I have a feeling if we really got it and I mean really understood this one lesson…well, then the word struggle would cease to exist.

I can say that each one of my dogs have absolutely been a teacher for me in this one lesson that I need reminding of quite often.

With Gidget’s third episode of a seizure, this time while I was not home on Sunday, the letting go of worry and fear really got my attention. I could stay in this place of fear for the rest of her and my life… and then neither of us would truly be living…

Or I could trust and let go that all will be well or be whatever it is meant to be. We think if we hold on and try to control that nothing bad will happen.

But we aren’t in control. Even though we like to think we are. While we can do our due diligence in taking steps to learn all we can to make our lives and the lives of those we love as happy and good as it can be, the rest is learning to let go and trust what is.

Maybe others don’t see it this way and that’s okay. Sometimes I don’t want to believe that letting go is the right thing to do – but then I believe that is only because I’m trying to control some outcome that I’m imagining- one that may never be. And control really does come from a place of being in fear.

So to let go is to live fully. To trust that our lives are unfolding just as they are meant to be.

Gidget is certainly my reminder right now of that. It is so close to the surface pulsing through my many thoughts. So I’m being reminded once again– let go and trust.  And to deeply appreciate and savor each moment of this delicate dance we do while here on this earth.