The Collected Writings of Brian J. Mueller

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Letting Go Sets the Stage

Letting go sets the stage
for something spectacular.
There’s always that pregnant moment
right after the fuse has been lit
and before the soul goes
BANG!

Letting go wrests love
out of your control,
freeing it from the meaningless task
of polishing your shiny life.
Love has greater work to do,
like creating this universe
full of compassion and generativity.

God has no illusion
and holds no bitterness
for your violent resistance
to light that fuse.

Love too knows
bitterness hasn’t a chance
when you learn to read
its sacred texts,
written in the eyes
and on all the foreheads
of those around you.