A Moment Aside --- 23 November 2021
Letting go is not always the end of things.
Often we have to let go of
something in order to pick up and embrace something more worthwhile. Sometimes
we have to let go of old supports to take hold of new supports. There are times
when we have to let go of old pains and wounds in order to find healing.
It is hard, no question
about it. Some of the hardest things to let go of could be grudges, injuries,
and hard feelings. Even if we find such things comforting (What is more
comforting than to feel that we are right?), they often hold us back from
healing or even from growing.
In such cases, letting go
could mean letting go of a pain that is comfortable and well known. To hold on
may keep us from entering into any sort of new life.
There are things that we
will bring with us in any new life we enter. There are also things that we will
have to leave behind. A child in the womb might be comfortable, but that is not
the new life the child is meant to experience.
For God so
loved the world that he gave his only Son,
so that
everyone who believes in him may not perish
but may have eternal life.
(John 3:16)
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