dailydatewithgod

If given the option of letting go or holding on, which are you most inclined to do?  Does it depend on the situation?  I suppose everything depends on the situation.  Have you ever stopped to think that the reason you are more inclined to hold on is because you are holing on to the idea of something rather than the reality of something.  In other words, you are holding on to the hope or the possibility that it will be different this time?  You put up with a behavior in yourself or someone else because you have built excuses around it?  I am fascinated by my capacity to hold on to something because I am hoping it will get better even when there are no signs of it doing so.  I believe the expression is “the devil you know is worse than the devil you don’t.”  But why hold on to a devil?  Why not embrace the uncertainty that is God if I know that God is greater than anything I might already “know.”  There is so much that I don’t know and even more that I don’t know that I don’t know, but my mind always takes the posture that it knows exactly what is going to happen.  It thinks it is a great predictor but I have no psychic abilities, I only have matching capabilities.  In other words, my mind will automatically look for what it knows in a given situation.  This is not a bad thing–it is most necessary for survival, but I want to thrive, I want to live a spirit-filled life.  That means that for today, I am willing to relinquish the idea that I know how it is going to turn out so that I can be surprised by God.  Many scriptures of different faiths express the idea of God knowing the grand plans for our lives–it only requires us to trust in Him and let go of the ideas we have of how we want it to be.  If I truly trust in God then I can be willing to be surprised.  My prayer for you today is that you be open to letting go of one idea of how you know something is going to be.  Ask God to help you to be open to how the Grand Designer has set up the beautiful outcome that you could not even imagine.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen