Letting go

 From “Pilgrimage of a Soul” by Phileena Heuertz

(p87) prayer of St. Ignatius:

Take O Lord and receive

All my liberty, my memory,

My understanding and my entire will

All that I have and possess

You have given all to me

To you O Lord I return it

All is yours

Dispose of it all according to your will

Give me your love and grace

For this is sufficient for me.

(p90) As we let go of physical, mental and emotional attachments, we abandon ourselves to God and yield without restraint to God’s love and grace—for this is sufficient for life’s journey. Knowing and being known by God, relationship with God is supreme—the source of our identity and purpose. Expressing our truest identity is possible when we are free of false attachments that try to make claim on who we are. These accessories can become quite burdensome and impede our pilgrimage [the context for this sentence in particular, and the whole paragraph in general is the writer’s experience on the Camino de Santiago]. The spiritual journey has to be made with simplicity and a desire to be free.