Letting go

Somewhere I happened across a prayer, which I paraphrase as I can’t find it again. “Lord, help us to turn loose of whatever we hold to so that we’ll have room to accept the new gifts You are seeking to give us.” Letting go of things which we think are somehow ‘mine’ or ‘ours’ is difficult enough, but to let go of attitudes, behaviors, thoughts, past events, etc. are even more difficult. Letting go of an attitude of prejudice toward those who are of a different in skin color or sexual orientation or religious belief, for example, is difficult. Letting go of a past event involves forgiveness. Genuine letting go is an attitude or experience of realizing this thing/attitude no longer reflects our growing and maturing values. God’s invitation is to a journey, i.e.,” come follow me”, rather than to settle down and hold on.