Are you sure?

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Recently the question for me was how do I get through tough times? What I noticed is that like many things it just takes time. But in those unnerving days, hours or minutes, I have several mantra that I come back to again and again. One is from Thich Nhat Hanh, “Are you sure?” Another is, I can’t, God can, let her. Both of these allow me to notice I’m not in control and to let my higher power be my higher power. Rumi says something similar and I’m resting in that…

Be helpless, dumbfounded,

Unable to say yes or no,

Then a stretcher will come from grace

to gather us up.