Let Go and Let God

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Lately it seems like my to-do list is longer than the amount of hours in the day. I know that's not the case, but I feel overwhelmed. I need to learn to let go and let God.

When I see the pattern of my days molding into the pattern of my life I know that it is God who is arranging it for me and that I must follow his plan. There is a lesson to be learned and He wants to make sure that I am there to learn it. From the series our church and our small group is doing, to the book suggested and lent to me by our women's ministry director, and the women's retreat I just got back from. God is speaking to me, loud and clear, and I need to just slow down really pay attention and absorb what He has to say.

During last weeks small group meeting, one of our discussion prompts was to ask ourselves why we hang on to our emotional baggage when God has already forgiven us for it. That question threw me for a loop. So much so that it's still fresh on my mind five days later when normally I can't make it five minutes remembering something that was asked of me. I think that, perhaps, we are emotional beings because that's whom God created us to be and he did so with the purpose of us having self reflection, so that we might learn from our mistakes.

That path that God has placed me on is not a light one. It's hard. I'm finding myself asking some very tough questions and am finding answers that are not so pretty. But with the Lord by my side I know that I will come out of it a better person. So I'm opening my sails and I'm ready to soar under the wing of the God that I love.