LETTING GO

Holidays can be such triggers to people who are in recovery.  Any holiday.  But Christmas is the GRAND holiday of them all.  It can bring out the best or the worst in almost anyone.  We can be reminded of sentimental holidays that have grown even sweeter with the passing of time ... and we can remember holiday disasters too ... that may have already lost their sting and have become something we laugh about today ... but it's THIS HOLIDAY that we are talking about.  

I can't even count the things I have thought or said that caused my inner voice to say, "Let it go ..."  With enough practice, we can actually get good at letting go of the things that aren't good for us ... but to get good at anything ... we have to practice ~ practice ~ practice!  

In the beginning, I felt like I had to let go of a lot more things than I got to keep because so many things that I had held on to weren't really all that good for me.  I felt like I was doing spring cleaning on the soul level ... clearing out the bad to get ready for the good ... It's not that any of us are bad people ... but some of us sure have some useless ideas about ourselves, our place in the world and the way things should be.  

Our good feelings about ourselves might have less to do with us and more to do with the people around us, what we do for a living or what material possessions we have ... even though we never judge anyone else by the crowd they hang out with, the career they chose, or the things they accumulate ... It is always about the person we are without all the stuff.  I'm not saying that a person has to give up their friends and family, quit their jobs and give away their worldly possessions so they can get in touch with the person they really are!  I am proposing that you give up the things that are getting in the way.  If something is causing you to stumble, get rid of it!  Just let it go ...     

 

Let it go for 2007 !!!
By T. D. Jakes

There are people who can walk away from you.

When people can walk away from you: let them walk.  You don't want you to try to talk another person into staying with you, loving you, calling you, caring about you, coming to see you, staying attached to you.  Hang up the phone.

When people can walk away from you, let them walk.  Your destiny is never tied to anybody that left.

The Bible said that, they came out from us that it might be made manifest that they were not for us.  For had they been of us, no doubt they would have continued with us. ~1 John 2:19

People leave you because they are not joined to you.  And if they are not joined to you, you can't make them stay.

LET THEM GO!!!
 
And it doesn't mean that they are a bad person.  It just means that their part in the story is over.  And you've got to know when people's part in your story is over ... so that you don't keep trying to raise the dead.
You've got to know when it's over.  Let me tell you something.  I've got the gift of good-bye.  It's the tenth spiritual gift, I believe in good-bye.  It's not that I'm hateful, it's that I'm faithful, and I know whatever God means for me to have He'll give it to me. 

LET THEM GO!!!

If you are holding on to something that doesn't belong to you and was never intended for your life, then you need to ...

LET IT GO!!!

If you are holding on to past hurts and pains ...

LET IT GO!!!

If someone can't treat you right, love you back, and see your worth ...

LET IT GO!!!

If someone has angered you ...

LET IT GO!!!

If you are holding on to some thoughts of evil and revenge ...

LET IT GO!!!

If you are involved in a wrong relationship or addiction ...

LET IT GO!!!

If you are holding on to a job that no longer meets your needs or talents.

LET IT GO!!!

If you have a bad attitude ...

LET IT GO!!!

If you keep judging others to make yourself feel better ...

LET IT GO!!!

If you're stuck in the past and God is trying to take you to a new level in Him ...

LET IT GO!!!

If you are struggling with the healing of a broken relationship ...

LET IT GO!!!

If you keep trying to help someone who won't even try to help themselves ...

LET IT GO!!!

If you're feeling depressed and stressed ...

LET IT GO!!!

If there is a particular situation that you are so used to handling yourself  and God is saying "take your hands off of it,"  then you need to ...

LET IT GO!!!

Let the past be the past.  Forget the former things.  GOD is doing a new thing for 2007 !!!

 
LET IT GO!!!