Let Go

I have a bad habit of taking a pen, starting to write, realize the pen either kind of doesn’t write well or doesn’t write at all, then putting it back into the drawer.  What kind of insanity is that?!?  It doesn’t make sense at all, yet I have done it countless times.  This morning I broke that pattern–yay, small victory!  Then I started to think, how many times have I done that with other situations or things in my life? How many times have I held onto something past the point of making sense?

I have held onto past hurts, past relationships and old ways of thinking until it became unhealthy.  I have wanted to keep my kids babies forever in my mind and not changed my way of parenting to adapt to their changes.  It is time to let go!  If it doesn’t work, is not productive, does not produce fruit–let–it–go!  Stop holding onto what can’t be fixed and shouldn’t be.

Instead, seek the eternal, everlasting, unbreakable and unshakable God.  Let go of the past and move into your present and future.  If you are having trouble letting go, ask for help. What do you think God is here for?  He has come that you might have life and have it more abundantly (John 10:10b)! Let Him help you let go.