This blog today is meant to help those of us who don\u2019t like letting go. I mean the letting go of treasured times, treasured people, treasured routines, and traditions. Letting go isn\u2019t easy, but it is the life God designed for us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Throughout the Bible we read about letting go. King Saul\u2019s son, Jonathan, and David were best friends, but they had to go their separate ways. Moses\u2019 mom had to put him in a basket and let him go to save his life. Jesus had to let go of His place in heaven to come to earth to rescue you and me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Maybe those scenarios don\u2019t provide the comfort you\u2019ve needed for letting go of your routines, schedules, people, plans, dreams and all those items that are stockpiled in a closet that could be blessing someone else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It isn\u2019t easy for anyone who is a planner and a doer and wants to hold on as long as they can. I\u2019ve been letting go for a very long time. I can\u2019t believe how fast time went \u2013 watching my children grow from infants to raising their own children. I had to let go of friends as we moved in and out of each other\u2019s lives. I had to let go of my parents, my siblings, and my husband when they all went home to heaven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It\u2019s not easy letting go, but God gives us the fortitude and strength to conquer the \u201cletting goes\u201d. My letting-goes have been staged by God in a slow-methodical way. After our 40-years in Tulsa, OK, I moved back home to Texas. I let go so much that I sold most all my treasures to start over with new treasures and a new mindset and it has been so, so good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I let go of living in a house to living in a lovely senior-living community. Because I let go, my heart opened to new friendships and a beautiful new relationship with a most wonderful man. I was the one who vowed that I wanted my space and my place. Never say “never”!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Because I was open to change, my life has been opened wide to excitement, adventures, and opportunities to minister to others who need to let go of their doubts, unbelief, and disappointment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019ve made it through many seasons in these last nearly 14 years, and I\u2019ve come out of them braver and stronger. None of us knows what the future holds, but when we raise our hands high in the letting go, we\u2019ll find ourselves looking upward to Jesus. He\u2019s the One who leads us through the heartaches and triumphs of the living, the loving, and the letting go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Letting go is a daily, moment-by-moment choice. Giving it all to God is the way to come out on the other side as conquerors. I love this scripture: \u201cYet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.\u201d (Romans 8:37)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When we relinquish control, worry, doubt, fear, and doing-it-my-way and giving it all to God daily, we can be free to be a human-being instead of a human-doing. God is in control, and we can trust Him with all that concerns us each day. Letting go is scary at first, but the freedom in our mind and hearts will be worth it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So, let\u2019s let go and let God!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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