Let go | Filed under Monday's Moods
If you need to let go of something and you are just holding on then maybe you will find this helpful…
To ‘let go’ does not mean to stop caring, it means I can’t do it for someone else.
To ‘let go’ is not to cut myself off, it is the realization I can’t control another.
To ‘let go’ is not to enable but to allow learning from natural consequences.
To ‘let go’ is to admit powerlessness, which means the outcome is not in 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 in the middle arranging all the outcomes, but to allow others to affect their own destinies.
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 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 desires but to take each day as it comes, and to cherish myself in it.
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 to regret the past, but to grow and to live for the future.
To ‘let go’ is to fear less and to love more.
Wait this is not all…
Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.
Henry Miller
Must I remind you to work on making changes you need so you can say and believe Life Is Simply Good for it is at Always Victoria’s today and I am ones, Your Victoria.
March 7th, 2005 at 9:29 pm
Great words I needed today
March 7th, 2005 at 11:20 pm
Great words of wisdom! Thank you!
And thank you for visiting me the other day. Blessings!
March 8th, 2005 at 12:02 am
Hi Vickie,
you always have the perfect answer for when I have just read something sad….. I was just over at Hissy Fit and well, I am saying extra prayers tonight just for her. I’ve been including everyone everyday, Ellen, Barbara’s Mom and Barbara herself, You, Robin, Brian, and all blogger friends. But reading Veronica’s last comment, well, I got scared and where was the first place I clicked? Yours…. thanks,for those words of wisdom, God bless you…Love, Cowboy.
March 8th, 2005 at 3:51 am
… and that was just what I needed before bedtime tonight …
Hope all is well with you.
March 8th, 2005 at 6:59 am
You always tend to know what I need to read! Those were great!
Have a wonderful day! *HUGS*
March 8th, 2005 at 8:40 am
I let go once and fell into a big pile of a brown odiferous substance.
March 8th, 2005 at 9:13 am
Such good advice - sometimes it is only when we “let go” that we can we “go on”. Thank you,sweet girl. As usual, I learn from you.
March 8th, 2005 at 9:32 am
Those are all great things to remember. Thanks
March 8th, 2005 at 10:32 am
Just what I needed. Thank you, once again, for this wake up call.
Love ya.
March 8th, 2005 at 10:54 am
all i was thinking, i was brooding about..
and you show me hope.
thanks
March 8th, 2005 at 10:57 am
I always find myself reading these entries when they’re most helpful in my own life. You really do have your finger on the pulse of what so many of us are dealing with or should be dealing with.
: )
March 8th, 2005 at 3:22 pm
Soooo true, letting go frees up so much wasted energy.
XLNT post.
March 8th, 2005 at 6:37 pm
Very true that. I have a problem with letting go sometimes. Well I have a lot of problems but that one is in there too!
March 8th, 2005 at 7:13 pm
Hi! I found you through LG and I really have enjoyed my stay!
This is a great post, thank you for those words. We all too often go without words of wisdom these days….
March 8th, 2005 at 8:55 pm
Is it still letting go if it gets yanked from your hands?
-G
March 8th, 2005 at 8:59 pm
My biggest “let go” will be in another year letting my daughter go off to college. The hardest part for a caring parent is to realize that the day to day parenting is no longer needed. When you enjoyed the role as parent, it is hard to accept. But I look to the satisfaction of preparing a child sufficiently such that they can care for themself. If they succeed, ma and pa did right.
March 8th, 2005 at 9:42 pm
Of course just what I needed today! *sigh….you always know what to say!