How Tight Do You Hold On - to people, to things, to past experiences?
Enjoying our relationships, the material items that surround us, and the amazing experiences that we encounter or plan, provide memories that we can reflect on throughout our life.
The ability to let go - of people, items, and experiences is difficult. However, if we hold too tight and are unable to let go, we risk losing the opportunity to meet new people, and experience new adventures or release some of our possessions and bless others by helping to meet their needs.
Why is it hard to let go? Why do we hold on so tight?
- seeking affection,
- seeking fulfillment,
- trust,
- encountering a misunderstanding with another,
- wanting to have what we were unable to as a child,
- wanting to give our children or loved ones the things they did not have growing up,
- seeking to fill our lives with things so we appear successful,
- seeking love,
- seeking satisfaction
- security,
- comfort.
“You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.”– Jan Glidewell
"This is what the past is for! Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for the future that only He can see." Corrie Ten Boom
I read the following quote by Walt Disney, “We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.”
This quote inspires me. It can be difficult and overwhelming to let go of people, things, and past experiences. How many more people, things, and experiences will we encounter if we keep moving forward, opening new doors, undertaking new things, stepping out into a new adventure!
Corrie Ten Boom says it well with the following quote, "Hold loosely to the things of this life so that if God requires them of you, it will be easy to let them go."
Don't hold onto people, things, and past experiences so tightly, that you are too afraid to open new doors and allow your curiosity to lead you down new paths of adventure.
