Letting Go
© 2017 Bret Hesla.
Letting go. Letting go in You.
Letting peace flow into my heart.
Letting calm rest upon my soul.
Letting go. Letting go in You.
Words and music by Bret Hesla.
© 2017 Bret Hesla. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
Licensed via OneLicense.net, Contact: Bret.hesla@gmail.com.
In 2017 I got to collaborate with Richard Bruxvoort Colligan on a series of songs addressing the climate crises–the weather climate crisis, the political climate crises, the spiritual climate crisis. Letting go is a deep healing we need in our society. Letting go of human domination of nature, letting go of things and accumulation for those of us with too much, letting go of control. This simple refrain can support a time of meditation, prayer and renewal. You can sing this song by itself, or interspersed with any sort of reading, prayer, meditation, instrumental music, or silence.
Break the Drain Tiles (by Bret Hesla)
The machines of speed have ditched deep trenches across the fertile wetlands of our lives, burying the long tubular tiles of time-saving devices which have drained our marshy minds to prepare the way for a corn/soybean monoculture of thin leisure and frantic busyness. Help us to break the drain tiles and restore these wetlands to their health-giving state. God of quiet healing, help us to let go. [sing]
Help us to compost the discarded trimmings of our lives: the fragments of good books we’ve partly read, the half-finished projects, the old beliefs that no longer ring true. May we turn this pile on a regular basis, adding the water of careful noticing, until Your Widely Present Microbe Spirit reworks these castoffs into a rich black fertile soil of new habits, of new ways of being a kind and joyful community. God of quiet healing, help us to let go. [sing]