I Really Wasn't Letting Go When I Said I Was
By Sherry Kirschner

There are various levels of giving up, surrendering to a natural flow of life, to the life God has planned for us; letting go of the past, letting go of old habit patterns, letting go of attachments to genetic programming from our family’s blood line, letting go of traditional ways of thinking so we can expand our minds to new creative thoughts and ideas. I have practiced different ways of letting go throughout my life. Each time that I believed I was letting go of something that would not return again, but most of the time the same old pictures keep cropping up in my consciousness.
It seems easy to say we are letting go when there is little at stake. We like to believe that we can let go of misperceptions, past experiences, judgmental attitudes and negative thinking. It’s easy to lie to ourselves because it might be painful to look at the thoughts and attitudes we have been entertaining. We don’t want to feel embarrassed or ashamed. We don’t want to admit that we are not taking care of the way we think and behave. We go into denial big time. Our attitudes and behavior come up for scrutiny when we are faced with life threatening situations, or an experience where we need to make grounded clear decisions in an instant because it is a matter of life or death.
Being faced with a life threatening issue can be a major turning point in one’s life. It can drag one down to the pits of despair allowing a dark cloud of energy to surround us or we can use it as a learning lesson, a challenge to be dealt with.
How do we really let go and surrender to the will of God? What does that really mean? How do we know when our will ends and God’s begins? I believe letting go is accepting our life just as it is, not how we would like it to be, or how we had wanted it to be last year, not how we feel it should be, not how other people around us believe our life should be. But just accepting where it is right now because, in reality, that is just where it needs to be for us in the learning of our lessons on planet earth. This can be a difficult concept to swallow because society puts such pressure on us to keep in the fast lane and to be up on all the latest and the greatest. Our only concern should be with how are we doing in relation to the God of our heart. Are we doing things that benefit His life on earth? Are we keeping goodness and love alive? Are we helpful and caring even in times of stress? Do we give to live? Do we do things that we sometimes don’t want to do because we know it’s the right thing to do? To me this means letting go and surrendering to the will of God.
Letting go can be really complicated or it can be the simplest thing to do. We just need to be ready willing and able to be open to the messages from within our heart and soul that is His Presence guiding and directing our thoughts. If you are as strong willed as I am and believe that your way works you probably could use a little help recognizing whom and where the Source of your life really is. At the Spiritual Rights Foundation we can help guide you to that vibration within yourself so that you can truly let go and let God into your life. It has been a very humbling experience for me and it could be for you as well. It’s the best preventive medicine on the planet. Take a class, get a reading or whatever before the thoughts take over and send you down the path of disease rather than inspiration and fulfillment.