WE ARE EXPLORING THE PRACTICE
OF DETACHMENT
+ Detachment doesn’t mean not loving. It means
to be free to love with God’s love. Without detachment we are not free. We are
bound to our limited selves, our egos, and when we are bound we project onto
others, grasp after them, and/or reject them. Without detachment we cannot be
fully aware of others or fully present to them. So we love selfishly, at least
partly, and in self-serving ways.
Detachment enables us to be aware of and
engage reality as it really is. It enables us to welcome and embrace the
unfolding of reality and be present and responsive to the Spirit at work within
it. Without detachment we cannot see truth, cannot realize or actualize the truth.
Detachment requires skillful, intentional
humility and vulnerability because detachment does not come naturally to us; it
is a supernatural gift, a grace, though we can practice making ourselves
available to it. My prayer for myself and for our community is that we continue
to grow in loving others with awareness, humility, and skill. And this, I
think, requires detachment.
+ This was posted
by Rickey Cotton (RC) at the Living Stones Blog on June 29,2009.
The blog has ceased to exist or has moved but you can still find this post
at http://livingstonesweb.blogspot.com/2009/06/thoughts-on-detachment.html
and many more great posts by this community.
I found his website > http://rickeycotton.tripod.com/
+ Detachment is
liberating. It opens the door to amazing
grace, grace upon grace upon grace. Humility is the glorious
outcome of this practice “… and Whatdoes the Lord require of you but to do
justice, love kindness and walk humbly with your God?” --Micah 6:8
But before we move
on to the practice of humility,
the next practice beginning with the next post, be sure you make a commitment to
continue to practice, practice, practice
stillness and detachment, the required
practices which make humility
happen.
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