If we have died with him,
we will also live with him
—2 Timothy 2.11
Your ego is always calculating:
“What’s me, what’s not, how do I protect what’s me?”
That’s handy. Keeps us from stepping out into traffic.
But it’s purely self-centered, the opposite of love.
To love you’ve got to let go of what the ego wants.
Which feels like dying.
Die anyway.
God of Love,
let my selfish desires perish
in your perfect love,
so that I too may love.
Let my little “self” die
and Christ live in me.
Breath prayer:
Die … and live
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Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light
www.unfoldinglight.net