Let Go

To what do you cling so tightly that your shoulders tense and your jaw locks?

A narrative of how life “should have gone”?

A grudge, an expectation, a fear, a version of yourself you’ve been striving to become?

A story about the world you thought you were living in that has turned out to be untrue?

I’ve found myself grasping lately. Gripping tightly to the illusion of control. And it exhausts me.

But the tides come in and go out, with or without my permission. The leaves fall and return again. The world does not need me to hold it together. God is not asking me to clench.

Letting go is not laziness. It’s not forgetting. It’s not apathy.

Letting go is the path to peace. Letting go is what love does when it trusts. Letting go is what faith does when our soul is brave enough.

So today, I loosen the grip. On my expected timeline. On my shame about what I should have said or done. On my illusion of control. On my comfortable false self.

And I let the breeze of grace carry me forward like an autumn leaf.

What do you need to let go of right now?

Where in your life this week can you loosen your grip—just a little—and offer someone else a sacred sense of peace, ease, or freedom?

How can I pray for you today?

Inspired by Ecclesiastes 3:1–8, Matthew 6:25–34, and the Buddhist Dhammapada 20.277 – "All conditioned things are impermanent—when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering. This is the path to purity".