Forgetting and Letting Go

Good Morning Everyone

How many of you have trouble letting go of grudges?
How many of you have a hard time stopping yourself
from worrying about everything?

It is curious to me as to why we CLING to that which
WE DO NOT NEED, yet SEEK NOT that which would RELIEVE
our anxiety and internal pain.

Why would we cling to something that is destructive
or painful? Does it makes sense to you?

I mean I full well recognize that internal pain,
worry and care can come from actual things we have
to deal with, but isn't there a better way to deal with it?

Can our attitude make a difference?
How about our perspective? Can we change these things?

Listen, I am a classic example of a person who worries.
But the secret is, I have learned how to get rid of
them quicker than I used to. And I have learned
how they only weigh me down and steal my joy,
and make me lose time I could be spending on
enjoying others, or doing something fun or useful.

Do you all relate to this?

While we are out stewing over what someone did to us,
and how dare they, and look at what is wrong with them,
they are going on with their lives! Here we are in a little
mud puddle of self pity and they are out enjoying themselves.

How dare they? Think again. How dare WE cling to that
which is destructive and painful and not receive healing
and go out and enjoy the life we have been given?

This makes sense my friends. And it is a mental discipline.
We have to choose to let go. We have to choose to forget.
Once that choice has been made when these things
return to our thinking we have to remind ourselves
we have chosen to let go. It is a discipline.

If you could form the habit of worry you can form
a new habit of letting go. It really is that simple.

I have fought this battle most of my life, and I can tell
you I know I have learned to change, and I love life
a lot more when I am not carrying around unnecessary
baggage. I bet you would like to be free too.

Even if it returns, you know now, how to let go.
Just do it again.

Just do it!

love
millie

We pray that you may be invigorated and strengthened
with all power, according to the might of His glory,
(to exercise) every kind of endurance and patience
(perseverance and forbearance) with JOY.
Giving thanks to the Father Who has qualified and made
us FIT to share the portion which is the inheritance of
the saints (God's holy people) in the Light.
The Father has DELIVERED and drawn us to Himself
OUT OF the control and the dominion of darkness
and has transferred us into the kingdom of the
Son of His love.
Colossians 1:11-13

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THINGS TO FORGET

Forget each kindness that you do,
As soon as you have done it.
Forget the praise that falls to you,
The moment you have won it.

Forget the slander that you hear,
Before you can repeat it.
Forget each slight, each spite, each sneer,
Whenever you may meet it.

Remember every promise made,
And keep it to the letter.
Remember those who lend you aid,
And be a grateful debtor.

Remember all the happiness
That comes your way in living.
Forget each worry and distress,
Be hopeful and forgiving.

Remember good, remember truth,
Remember heaven is above you.
And you will find, through age and youth,
That many will come to love you.

- Author Unknown

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To "let go" takes love

by Lloyd J. Thomas, Ph. D.

To "let go" is to fear less and to love more.

To "let go" is not to cut myself off, it is the realization I can't control another.

To "let go" is to acknowledge that which I cannot change, and pursue that which I can.

To "let go" is to admit powerlessness, which means the outcome is out of my hands.

To "let go" is not to try to change or blame another, it is to make the most of myself.

To "let go" is not to care for, but to care about.

To "let go" is not to fix, but to be supportive.

To "let go" is not to judge, but to allow another to be a human being.

To "let go" is not to be protective, it is to permit another to face reality.

To "let go" is not to deny, but to accept.

To "let go" is not to criticize and regulate anybody, but to try to become what I dream I can be.

To "let go" is not regret the past nor fear the future, but to grow and live in the present.

To "let go" is to forgive, not to condone.

To "let go" is to free myself of my collection of past hurts and resentments.

To "let go" does not mean to stop caring, it means to accept that I can't do it for someone else.

To "let go" is not to enable, but to allow learning from the natural consequences of the choices we make.

To "let go" is not to nag, scold or argue, but instead to search out my own shortcomings and to correct them.

To "let go" is not to adjust everything to my own desires, but to take each day as it comes, and to cherish myself in it.

To "let go" is not to be in the middle arranging all the outcomes, but to allow others to effect their own destinies.

Perhaps each one of us could use a little more practice at letting go.