The Clenched Fist; A Restriction of Love – 0280

-Quotation Wednesday

“You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.”
Indira Gandhi

What has you in such a position where you restrict the love that desires to come your way? I see the love within your resistance, your desire to protect what it is you believe is yours. However your expression in this case, is a love that is surrounded by fear; slightly misguided. Because you withhold an open hand, there is much love that passes you by. What is truly yours? Are you not connected to all? Hmmm. My friend, you do not own anything. You simply are, everything. And that which is in your current possession, is not something for ownership, but for grateful stewardship.

When something flows into your life, if in our mind we take ownership, believing we are the sole owner, we have deceived ourselves and missed out on the true meaning of all that which enters our experience. Your response to its loss, explains much. In the presence of having to give something up, can you let it go freely or do you respond with a clenched fist? For the one who desires control, seeing it as a true loss, only convinces himself more fully that this life experience is one of lack; of not enough. Therefore his reality will follow his belief.

The good steward understands that all possessions are temporary, therefore you can never truly own anything. At best we can do well with what we have now, doing what we can to foster its growth as it benefits the whole of mankind; knowing in our hearts that when it does decide to leave, it only makes room for more.