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The following meditation is by Murray Bodo, O.F.M, from his book, “Song of the Sparrow.” We fight surrender to God and resist it. Then one day we wake up and realize that letting go is the only answer. And waking up is pretty much what happens. Everything before that insight was a sleeping away of…