-=| Letting Go! |=-

Letting Go

To "let go" does not mean to stop caring, it means I can't do it for someone else.

To "let go" is not to cut myself off, it's the realization I can't control another.

To "let go" is not to enable, but to allow learning from natural consequences.

To "let go" is to admit powerlessness, which means the outcome is not in my hands.

To "let go" is not to try to change or blame another, it's to make the most of myself.

To "let go" is not to care for, but care about.

To "let go" is not to fix, but to be supportive.

To "let go" is not to judge, but to allow another to be a human being.

To "let go" is not to be in the middle arraigning all the outcomes, but to allow others to affect their own destinies.

To "let go" is not to be protective, it's to permit another to face reality.

To "let go" is not to deny, but to accept.

To "let go" is not to adjust everything to my desires but to take each day as it comes, and cherish myself in it.

To "let go" is not to regret the past, but to grow and live for the future.

To "let go" is to fear less and love more.

Author Unknown

The Weight of Resentments

A teacher once told each of her students to bring a clear
plastic bag and a sack of potatoes to school. For every
person they refuse to forgive in their life's experience,
they chose a potato, wrote on it the name and date, and put it in the plastic bag. Some of their bags were quite heavy.

They were then told to carry this bag with them everywhere
for one week, putting it beside their bed at night, on the
car seat when driving, next to their desk at work.

The hassle of lugging this around with them made it clear
what a weight they were carrying spiritually, and how they
had to pay attention to it all the time to not forget and
keep leaving it in embarrassing places.

Naturally, the condition of the potatoes deteriorated
to a nasty smelly slime. This was a great metaphor
for the price we pay for keeping our pain and heavy negativity!

Too often we think of forgiveness as a gift to the other person,
and it clearly is for ourselves!

Pray on this...

~~Author Unknown~~