Give in

“In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.”

                                                           Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Some of us

Have always tried to “make it work”

Life that is

We have been strivers

Seeking success

Seeking love

Seeking friendship

Seeking, although usually in vain, for a sense of self

We work

We struggle

We produce

We put ourselves out there

We live on the limb

And it doesn’t work

a friend of mine reminded me that the “Quakers like to say ‘way will open’. But the ones not imbued with compulsory optimistic thinking say ‘way closes, and that is way too.’"

Many times as she noted, what we seek, whether it be love, or friendship, or joy

or peace, is “not a thing to be grasped. It's a thing to let happen, to be given in to.”

for me it is counter intuitive…

and yet

it rings true

so for all of us strivers

perhaps it is time

to let it be

time to

give

in