The Power of Letting Go: A Practical Story
Let Go... and... Let God. Somewhere in old SoJourners memory banks I have one of my favorite stories: It has to do with monkeys. They were all over the place in the jungle, and they were having a whole lot of fun conducting their playful monkey business. Sadly trappers came there way to trap these little old tree climbers, but the monkeys were way to fast; yet one trapper had an idea that really grabbed him. In fact the idea had to do with grabbing. You see these trappers developed big bottles with small necks, and they laid them on the ground. They put things in the bottle that would attract the monkeys, especially a beautiful banana. Now here is the rest of the story: If a monkey reached in the jar, it could pull its hand out, but if it grabbed hold to the banana, there was NO way they could pull their hands out. In time the monkeys came around and fiddled around with the bottles. About the time they reached for the banana the trappers came forward acting as if they were go