When you or someone you love is faced with physical or emotional challenges ,many aspects of life can seem out of your control. Although we can always control how we feel and think about what is happening to us, there are realistically aspects of our lives and relationships that we can’t fix or change for ourselves or others. Letting go is a process that is really hard for all of us. It is not passive resignation to accept what we cannot change. In fact, letting go is often the result of working through emotional hurdles to come to a place of acceptance. Many years ago I was given the following verses. There is no author, but the message is filled with wisdom and challenge.
TO LET GO
To Let Go is not to stop caring, it’s recognizing I can’t do it for someone else.
To Let Go is not to put myself off, it’s realizing I can’t control another.
To Let Go is not to enable, but to allow learning from natural consequences.
To Let Go is not to fight powerlessness, but to accept that the outcome is not in my hands.
To Let Go is not to try and change or blame others, it’s to make the most of myself.
To Let Go is not to care for, it’s to care about.
To Let Go is not to fix, it’s to be supportive.
To Let Go is not to judge, it’s to allow another to be a human being.
To Let Go is not to try and arrange outcomes, but to allow others to affect their own destinies.
To Let Go is not be protective, it’s to permit another to face their own reality.
To Let Go is not to regulate anyone, but to strive to become what I dream I can be.
To Let Go is not to fear less, it’s to Love more.
In which areas of your life do you need to LET GO ???