Letting Go

September 25, 2007

Letting Go Letting go is never easy.

It requires great courage; for the things we let go are normally the things that are precious and “irreplaceable”. Who would have a hard time letting go of things that are not important to them anyways?

Letting go of a thing is sometimes bearable, for it could be replaced by small little joys that could fill in the void of that big thing that was gone.

But more than anything, the hardest is letting go of a loved one. Of a person who used to be your “happy thought”. Who used to make you smile, used to give you a deeper value and importance, who used to make you sing and who used to make your heart beats faster and faster by just being themselves.

Letting go is a choice.

It is a choice of whether we will allow ourselves to mature by the pains brought by the selfless act or be “at risk” of having ourselves carried on the upheavals of our emotions by being so attached.

Letting go involves the idea of having our “Mind rule over matters”, “Wisdom rule over Emotions” and having ourselves appreciate a person/thing WITHOUT elevating him/her/it above God in our lives.

Letting go is helpful in taking the risk/ probability of “abusing the harmless things”. For no matter how beneficial or INNOCENT something may be, when asked too much of it, could cause harm to us and to others.

When we learn to let go, we will undergo a very painful process, but no matter how broken we are we could be assured of a very rewarding result of its “art”.

Letting go- it is when we need to trust God more in bringing back that precious and irreplaceable thing/person again. It is trusting Him to bring us to the maturity level that we should be having, and it allow us to bring ourselves to that undivided heart and attention for Him that is expected in us. (Psalms 86:11)

Letting go entails the “risk of loosing”. We may be afraid of facing the struggles of our longingness for it; however, if we could fully trust God that He knows everything and He doesn’t just view our plight from a distance, we would be secured enough.

One thing I would like to emphasize is that, “God knew our desires and he is capable of fulfilling it in order for us to be happy.”

For this cause, we could now be at rest in His presence, being fully secured; we could be at REST for HIS BEST, (1 John 4:18).. for LOVE protects, trusts, hopes and perseveres (1 Corinthians 13:7)