Letting Go

Sometimes you have let go of something from yesterday if you want to latch onto something for today. 

-Maybe you need to let go of an old job in order to take a new one.

-Maybe you have to let go of an old relationship before fitting a new one into your life.

-Maybe you have to let go of other priorities on your time or money before grasping that new opportunity.

For a while you may feel suspended in mid-air. You've committed to something new and let go of the past, but you have not yet grasped what is ahead. You feel vulnerable and you may be frightened, but you know that the only way you can reach the new is to let go of the old.

You don't realize that if you stop looking backwards craving the love and acceptance which you didn't receive from your past, then you might open your eyes to what is available for you now.  But you have to let go.  If only you could see that looking back into an incomplete and imperfect past, with regret, blame, guilt or resentment is keeping you from the treasures that await you here now.
The past has gone.  You cannot rectify something that is no longer with you.

Letting go doesn't mean you don't care or that you shut yourself down-it simply means you stop trying to force outcomes. It means you give up resisting the way things are and trying to do the impossible. It means simply that you concentrate on what is possible through Christ and with gentleness, kindness, and love press forward into the future.

Some things you cannot change, but many things will change if you are willing to just let go of them. So as we approach 2012 just let go and let God have His way in your life. You'll find then the joys of today outweigh the sorrows of yesterday and that tomorrow will take care of itself.

Happy New Year!