A Three Letter Word That Changes Everything

Experiment with a simple, radical, ancient prayer

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It takes a long time to remember what I’m going to tell you here.

Life gets so complicate. We get so complicated and busy that we forget a word—a word spoken by the Creator that just might change everything in your internal world and the external world right now and right here.

This is the time of year where stressful events fills the calendar and the heart is on overload. There’s a lot going on. There is much shallow breathing simply trying, trying and trying harder to do it all and to do it right.

There’s a beautiful antidote to all this stress. It’s a simple word found very early in the pages of our Scriptures and it centers around re-learning one simply three letter word:

L-E-T.

What I’m liking about “Let” these days, is that this three letter sacred word was spoken first by God—not by a human. That alone, gives me hope.

To let… is to merge with the original Creator’s attempt to bring possibility into the world rather than control. The Creator said, “Let” alot in those opening verses of Genesis.

Yet, after all the years, we so seldom hear “Let”. We control. We fix. We manipulate. Maybe, not letting is our original sin after all. To let is how redemption begins, perhaps.

Here’s a refreshing experiment. Become like the Creator and begin to say, “Let.”

Something good happens when we say, “Let.”

Here’s my poem which I have revised. I like it far more now than when I shared it in the beginning of my Substack journey. See what you think.

As you read the poem, practice saying, “Let” over Christmas and far, far into the New Year which holds so much unknown.

I have a hunch, this one word prayer— “Let” —could actually help us. It’s helping me these days.

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I love this image above… the Creation of a Sacred finger “letting” the new created human be. And all that space between that is unknown. Just think about what that kind of space might bring to you in saying, “Let!”

May the “Let” of Advent and Christmas hold you together in this fragile days.

Every blessing in the letting!

Let!

Steve