Hey YOU, Let GO.......

Early on in this journey I was called to LET GO.....nearly 5 years ago.....let go of a future I thought I would have with my then husband......let go of my family of four.....which nearly killed me, all of that......letting go of what I thought my life would look like.....letting go of everything I believed to be true up until that point.....and watch the pieces get thrown off a cliff.....falling at a rapid rate, and not being able to be retrieved.......and then I learned to let go of control in every sense,.....my new life not being able to be put back together the same way again.....letting go of how anybody else behaved, or didn't in this story, and only focusing on myself, my children,.....my story.....my actions.....and my life.....and I have had to let go of so many things in my life.....truly......some small....some so big.....in fact as I type that I am remembering that I had a dream with my Aunt Linda in it last night......I was watching her speak.....and I loved the way she spoke....she had a lovely speaking voice......and we made eye contact, and her eyes filled with tears, mirroring my own, and in the dream I knew it was because she loved me so much, and missed me, and I the same.....our love was so so special, I adored her and she adored me, and letting go of her, and her love, was one of the hardest things I have been asked to do in this life.......and I could go on and on.....but I think you get the idea:) And my point of today's blog, is not so much about what I have been asked to let go, which has been plenty.....but it is in what happens on the other side of that letting go......and it is about learning to be willing to let go, especially of the stuff that hurts us.......and when we consciously let go of things not meant for us..... beautiful things happen....and I have written about it many times.....the releasing is like letting go of razor blades.....letting the cuts on our hands heal from the hanging on too tightly........and it is true.....the suffering stops when we let go and stop hanging onto the things we don't need to....but the other piece that I am learning more and more about as I circle back around is that the letting go, makes room and space for WHAT IS NEXT.......each thing I have let go of has been rewarded and replaced.....either literally, by being physically replaced.....or by the peace and contentment that the letting go brings.....like really letting go.....any time you find yourself unhappy, ask yourself what it is that you are trying to hang onto too tightly, or control.....lots of times that is the source.....we cannot control people, and external circumstance, often....and chasing that is fool's gold.....but controlling what we do in our own lives matters.....so yesterday it occurred to me how much I have let go, much of it added weight on me that needed to go.....you can just put it down and walk on.....it isn't yours to carry I promise:) And then you can be FREE:) Happy Saturday:)