Letting Go by Changing Perspective

Hello my friends!
It's been awhile, I know.
Been busy with lots of changes this summer
and needed to take a little break from blogging.
I'm hoping I haven't lost all of 
my blogging buddies.

I'm hoping you are finding
 time to do all of the things that are
 important to you
 and have taken time to enjoy, 
 the in between parts, 
from the busyness of life.
If you are like me, you have to 
be intentional in planning
 to make sure 
you are balancing the busyness.


"RELEASE"
So getting back to what
 I've been learning about the
 "letting go" 
of what holds us
back from all God has planned for us.

I tell you what!  I had no idea how
 relevant choosing the
 word RELEASE
 as my 2014 word would be.
It seems there are lessons everyday for me 
as I watch for ways 
to throw off the extra baggage of 
letting go of things
  I don't need, but thought
I NEEDED!!
Do you find this to be true for you when 
 trying to be intentional
about watching
 for baggage you are carrying that
you really don't need?

This is where the kid in me always wants to

Stop.. Stand up and with arms spread wide, begin to sing 

at the top of my lungs..

.. ♫.. LET IT GO… ♫…LET IT GO….

(from the Disney movie, FROZEN)

and sing it until I believe it!! ☺

*¨*❤*¨*

I'd like to share with you about

something that happened in my life 

at the beginning of summer, without giving 

the details. 

(those are better left unsaid and as my own learning experience)

This way you can relate by making the details

fit whatever you are going through. 

This thing that happened just kind of

rocked my world in the grieving way. I had to 

make a tough choice that I wasn't expecting.

At first I thought the choice was about 

something I could control, so I began

figuring it out through my own

mindful process....you know the old

if I do this, but if I do that, or how can I 

do this so that the this I want will happen....

etc.. etc... etc... ha!

But I learned quickly that it 

wasn't something I could control...so

 it hurt a lot!

I will be honest,  for a day or so,  I let the victim 

mentality be my best friend- feeling sorry for 

myself..  grieving a loss that felt undeserved.

God then sent me a wise friend,  who after 

I told her I was feeling like Daniel in the Bible,

having to go into the Lion's Den,  she

responded.." Now Daniel, walk humbly and with God's peace.  Let Him do the heavy lifting. God will sort this all out."

I so needed reminded of that!

 His peace is such sweet peace, no matter

 what you are going through.

 All of a sudden,

I changed my perspective 

on everything that was happening. 

Instead of the victim mentality, I realized 

that God was orchestrating new plans for me...

...I just didn't know what they were yet.

I was excited about my future!!

I was no longer stressed over it all.  

I knew without a shadow of a doubt that God

was up to something good in my life

 and I could trust HIM 

and give up that control that

 was making me miserable.  

And you know what?

Within hours  (and I'm not exaggerating), 

those new and exciting things

 began happening in my life. 

And they are happenings 

that could only have come, because God put them in action.

"The freedom to actually be on an 

adventure with God becomes strangely

possible when you aren't pushing 

so hard for the package."

Paula Rinehart

If I had not Released

 that victim mentality by

changing my perspective instead to that of

"God was Orchestrating" something new

 and wonderful in my life,

 then I could have 

missed the great plans he was waiting 

to set in place for ME!!!

I know this was a long post and also overdue!

Thank you for bearing with me.

I hope it has been an encouragement

to you, especially if you need to 

Release something you really don't need.

Maybe, like me, all you need to do

is to change your Perspective!

Hugs,

“I waited patiently for the Lord;He turned to me and heard my cry.He lifted me out of the slimy pit,out of the mud and mire;he set my feet upon a rock and gave me a firm place to stand.”Psalm 40:1-2