One of the hardest lessons to learn is to accept the gift, when what we have been waiting for appears, and to practice detachment from the beginning. All attachment forms imperceptibly and leads to possessiveness and fear. Seeds of new pain and loss are sown. Metanoia is built into the need for continuous detachment. Never give up, never stop letting go. Consciousness of metanoia is released to help the ego-mind by the practice of meditation. It enters in all relationships and activities whenever we slip from gratitude into entitlement by clinging to a gift. The path of metanoia prevents this. It reverses the slide into delusion. It saves us from the trap of possession and restores us to the freedom of gratitude.
( WCCM Newsletter, February 2023 by Laurence Freeman OSB )
