Monday, January 30, 2012

How - Letting Go

So my previous post helped me a lot more than I thought it would. It helped for me to verbalize what I was internalizing for weeks. It leads me to wonder what other things I have been hanging on to and how if I just said it outloud (or via the blogging hemisphere) perhaps I would feel freed.
I have long struggled with the casting your burdens down for God to carry. Perhaps it's because it's such a physical image, and obviously I can not physically take off the burden of money from my back and hand it over. I have struggled with it because I quite frankly didn't know how.
People often give you these flowery blurbs 'Let go and let God' etc, but does anyone actually sit down and tell you HOW. How do I let go? How do I cast all my cares upon Him?
Anyhow, all this to say somehow the physical transference of thoughts to a page helps me do just this. Lay it down, cast it away, let go. I need the physical to do the mental/heart transfer. I don't know if I'm alone in this, but I'm imagining not.
A few years ago I figured out I needed this physical transfer. I like lists, what can I say? So I started writing letters to God. It helped me so much to just say - here you go, I have written about it now I don't have to worry about it anymore. I still struggle with the 'letting go and letting God' but writing has become such a wonderful outlet for me. I know I don't write here as much as I should. But even typing out some lines on here makes me feel a little lighter. :)

Exodus 14:14 - this has become my mantra. It will be until I can completely let it take over my world. :)

1 comment:

Jennifer Owens said...

I would like to meet the person that does know how to "let go and let God." Does anyone have that down?

It feels like a process for me - some things feel easier than others, and then almost always I have to exhaust myself first with dealing with whatever it is by myself before I realize that I need to let go of it.

And writing is therapeutic. I'm glad you felt a release with what you were holding there. Our thoughts and feelings themselves are never bad - they are just thoughts and feelings. It's good to get them out, see them, acknowledge them and then keep on.

Hope you write more. It's always exciting when you do. (o: