from Melodie Beattie’s More Language of Letting Go
The magic of a story lies in the spaces between the words.
When we read a novel, we often find that the writer vies us only the barest elements of a scene, and yet our imagination fills in all the blank spaces from our experiences, our hopes, our dreams. We don’t need the author to give us all of the details.
So it is with life. Often we are given only the barest outline of the path that we are to follow, and yet if we are silent and listen to our hearts, we can hear all the details of our path spelled out for us, a step at a time. There is no need to have everything laid out for us beforehand. If it were, there would be no need to take the trip. We could simply read about it.
Get up.
Live your path with your heart.
Fill in the blanks yourself.
God, Give me the strength to find out how the story ends by living until the end of it, instead of wanting it read to me beforehand.
David Lee 