Inspired by “Allowing” by Susie Hulcher:
“It’s all about allowing, allowing peace within, in absolute surrender so serenity begins. For when the storm subsided, and calm becomes a wave, it’s all about allowing it to stay.
It’s all about allowing, allowing love to flow. It’s setting down your burden and just simply letting go. For as you cease to struggle and love pours through your heart, it’s all about allowing it to start.
Now, feel it warm and shining, new with promise, strong, undying, Love different than any you have known. And, now the seed is sown.
It’s all about allowing, allowing change to show, then living in the moment like it’s all you’ll ever know; and though it won’t be easy, you can truly say you tried, for it’s all about allowing it inside.”
Responsive Reading for Sunday, March 1
Jesus “made the disciples get into the boat and precede him to the other side . . . . After doing so, he went up on the mountain by himself to pray. When it was evening he was there alone. Meanwhile the boat, already a few miles offshore, was being tossed about by the waves, for the wind was against it. During the fourth watch of the night [nearly dawn], he came toward them, walking on the sea…. [He] spoke to them, ‘Take courage, it is I, do not be afraid’” (Mt. 15:22-7).
“It’s all about allowing, allowing peace within, in absolute surrender, so serenity begins. For when the storm subsided, and calm becomes a wave. It’s all about allowing it to stay.”
“Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart and you will find rest for yourselves. For my yoke is easy, and my burden light” (Mt. 11:28-30).
“It’s all about allowing, allowing love to flow. It’s setting down your burden and just simply letting go. For as you cease to struggle and love pours through your heart. It’s all about allowing it to start.”
“The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that a person took and sowed in a field. It is the smallest of all the seeds, yet when full grown it is the largest of plants. It becomes a large bush, and the ‘birds of the sky come and dwell in its branches’” (Mt. 13:31-2).
I feel God’s kingdom within, “warm and shining, new with promise, strong, undying, Love different than any we have known, and now the seed is sown.”
“The coming of the kingdom of God cannot be observed, and no one will announce, ‘Look, here it is, or, ‘There it is,’ For behold, the kingdom of God is among you” (Luke 17:20-21).
“It’s all about allowing, allowing change to show — then, living in the moment like it’s all you’ll ever know . . . . it’s all about allowing it inside.”