Attachments That Stick Like Glue

by Webb Hubbell

Attachment is the mind stuck to an object. — Lama Zopa Rinpoche, The Door to Satisfaction

The Lenten Season is the perfect time to lose attachments to objects, whether it be the object that is the subject of our fast or an attachment that inhibits our service to a neighbor.
 
I would also suggest to the Lama that our minds also get stuck to things that are equally as destructive. Resentments, jealousy, and long held grudges can stick just like Gorilla Glue.
 
Lent is a time to get out the turpentine and loosen the hold that objects and self-destructive attachments have on our mind and heart.
 
Free from attachments we are free to travel the path God has chosen for us, and to do so with a much lighter load.

About the author

Webb Hubbell is the former Associate Attorney General of The United States. His novels, When Men Betray, Ginger Snaps, A Game of Inches, The Eighteenth Green, and The East End are published by Beaufort Books and are available online or at your local bookstore. When Men Betray won one of the IndieFab awards for best novel in 2014. Ginger Snaps and The Eighteenth Green won the IPPY Awards Gold Medal for best suspense/thriller. His latest, “Light of Day” will be on the bookstands soon.

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