Meditation reading for Friday May 3, 2024
PLANNING FOR OTHERS —
Letting Go. There are times when we think we see perfectly what others ought to be doing. It pains and disturbs us when loved ones — our children, perhaps — do not heed our advice. In planning for others, we can easily fall into the trap of enabling. An enabler is a person who supports others in an unhealthy addiction or dependency.
We must not plan the lives of others, no matter how dear they are to us or how attached we become to them. They must have the freedom to live without obligation and the belief that they can succeed without our help.
Freedom of choice is a precious right that includes the freedom to make mistakes.
I'll release any tendency I have to plan for others. At all times, my responsibility is to keep on the right track and let others be free.