Rest like a child

Praying the Our Father begins with a momentous word: "Father." You are not addressing a distant boss or a judge, but someone who loves you and into whose hands you can let yourself fall. From there abandonment is born: trusting like a child resting in his father. It is not laziness or quitting the fight; it is stopping carrying everything alone. You do your part and release the rest, certain that it is not your effort that sustains you, but his love. Living this way lifts a heavy weight. You still have problems, but you stop experiencing them as though everything depended on your control. A child who knows he is loved can even ask for the moon, and sleeps peacefully.