Letting go is happening all around us as we head towards winter. Trees are

great teachers of release. If we want to find inner peace, we’ll have to

apprentice to them.

When we practice centering prayer, we are letting go. We are letting go of

our thoughts and petitions and remaining in silent receptivity, and, most

importantly, we are letting go of our personal agendas and maps. Thomas

Keating wrote, “This prayer is a journey into the unknown. It is a call to

follow Jesus out of all the structures, security blankets and even

spiritual practices that serve as props for the ego.”