Meditation from “Language of Letting Go”

September 13- Meditation from “Language of Letting Go”

By Melody

 

Mr. Potter celebrated his hundredth birthday by doing a bungee jump from a 210 foot tower. When his physician of many years advised him against it, he simply got a new doctor. — Stella Resnick, The Pleasure Zone

 

I almost have the local record for number of tandems jumped. A tandem is a skydive you do attached to your jump master. The harness hooks you up to the front of him; all you do is go along for the ride. I’ve done a lot of my training during tandems, to get body memory of how to skydive and to build my confidence.

 

I haven’t met the woman who actually holds the tandem record for the area, but I’ve heard about her. I’ve done twenty-eight. She’s done many, many more. She even participates in skydiving team events doing tandems.

 

When she’s on the ground, she’s labeled a paraplegic. In the air, she can fly.

 

Sure, there are things we can’t do, things we can’t have, and things we really want. Stop worrying about those things; there’s an even longer list of things we can do and have.

 

What sounds good to you?

 

No matter what our limitations or disabilities or what we can’t have in life, we can fulfill our purpose and have some fun while we’re doing it.

 

If Mt Potter and the tandem record holder can, so can you.

 

God, please show me what I can do.