Let it Go · EpicYourLife

Let it Go

It's fun at times to go back through some of my old writings from when I wrote a lot more than I do now. Here's a piece I wrote back in 2018, and it's still good for me to read it again. Maybe it will be for you too.

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Let It Go

Sometimes, the best gift you can give yourself, is to Let It Go.

Sometimes life is hard.

Sometimes deep, unanswered questions bounce inside the mind like a yoyo on a string.

Sometimes we get so caught up in our pain and struggle and personal drama that surrounds us, that it becomes our identity.

Some of us struggle with feeling fat and ugly and stupid and useless.

Some of us went through a bitter divorce.

Some of us lived thru ugly abuse and fatherless homes.

The list goes on and on, of the crap that life dishes out. The choices that other broken humans make, that then continues its broken path in the next generation.

But I'm here to tell you, sometimes the best gift you can give yourself is to let it go.

I'm not suggesting to be flippant about the past or present realities. I'm not suggesting to live in denial.

I'm saying, take all the crapbola from the past. One by one, pick them up. Acknowledge it. Feel it. And then take it in the palm of your hand. And then open your hand and release it. It owes you nothing.

If someone broke your heart.. Let it go.

If someone stole your innocence.. Let it go.

If your father abandoned you, or abused you.. Let it go.

If your church backstabbed you, judged you, and cared only for its own agenda.. Let it go.

If your own family disowned you.. Let it go.

This seems like a hard message.

Maybe you're saying, But Eric, you don't understand !! I can never forgive my (fill in the blank) for all the pain and suffering he caused me!!

But I'm here to tell you, hard and painful as it can be to let go of all our hard, bitter feelings, from our hard, bitter pasts, it is still much more easy than carrying all that buried pain for years and years.

Letting go Is painful. But it is also freeing.

If that is you, carrying the what-ifs, the if-only's, the broken dreams of a broken past..I'm here to tell you.. Let it go.

You're not the ex-Amish kid anymore, running from painful manipulation and control over your life.

You're not the woman, who's life has been a terrible trail of abuse, abandonment, rejection and divorce.

You're not the strange creature who doesn't fit in anywhere, the vagabond, the outcast of your church, peer group, or society.

No. None of that is you.

You are created.

You are accepted.

You are loved.

You are valued.

You are beautiful.

You have powerful gifts.

You have purpose.

Your life has meaning.

There's only one catch.

You cannot pick up your new, true identity while you're still holding on to your old shame-filled crapbola identity.

It's time to step into your new identity. It's time to let go of the old and step into the new.

It's time to let go of shame.

It's time to let go of self-condemnation.

It's time to let go of bitterness and hatred.

It's time to realize you cannot experience love, or joy, or peace, while you're still holding on to any of those things listed above.

It's time to live in true freedom.

It's time to plan your life, instead of life planning yours.

It's not going to happen overnight..

But when you make a lifestyle of letting go of the old identity and embracing the new, your life will change accordingly.

Maybe there will be massive changes in a short period of time. Maybe it will just be little by little until suddenly, you are starting to make decisions based on your present, rather than being controlled by your past.

Maybe you will start feeling hope, and a joy to be alive, and a sense of fulfillment in the work that you do and the people you can help.

And whenever another piece of your past comes up to you and starts hissing its venom into your ears, you stand up and you say, No!

That is not me anymore! I am a new creation! I am free! I am loved by my creator! I have a new identity!

And then you take that venomous hissing voice from the past, and you release yourself from it by taking responsibility for it, acknowledging it and then.. Letting it go.

And you continue to do this over and over and over. Because life is full of trash, abuse, selfishness.

But you're not part of it anymore, because you refuse to hang on to it. You triumph over your past because you're no longer hanging on to it. You're now fully in the present, and can now make your decisions as a mature adult who knows where he's going.

Are you starting to glimpse the picture?

Here's your key.

Let It Go.

-Eric

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