Will You Let It Go?

Do I have the faith and courage to surrender what no longer serves me, and be vulnerable with what comes next in life?

Have you ever been afraid to let go of something you knew wasn’t for you. Or maybe you felt it was for you but now you see that it wasn’t for you. You have to see that for yourself, no one could tell you it was time to let it go. You had to, and will have to let it go when you are ready. And I mean really ready. The kind of ready to where you don’t even feel the need to return anymore. Or the alternative is that our Heavenly Father has had enough and decides to take it from you in a more harsh way. Either way, this THING has sucked the life out of you enough for you to know there’s better up ahead.

I’ve cut my hair off two times in life. Once I did the big chop ( I mean less about two centimeters left) right after I left my husband while living in Japan one year after having our son, and the other was a fun bang situation recently. I cut my hair the first time after I left my six year marriage. A release of sorts that was bound to happen sooner or later, and even then with no plan in place, I still had this peace that everything was going to work out just as it should. I cut my hair the second time because I sensed a need to release or to surrender something. At the time, I didn’t even know what “it” was, so it was a public demonstration, a declaration if you will, that a new season was up ahead. A new season and freshness was coming. I could feel it, and little did I know two days later I would change my life forever.

Both times, in my life, major changes occurred after cutting something out of my life. When I did the big chop, and left the marriage, I tapped into an efficiency and trust in self that far surpassed any level of confidence I had ever reached at that point in life. I was free to start life over again. The days ahead were not easy, that was never promised, but they were worth every second. I wouldn’t be a fraction of the human I am now in my humility if not for that one step of courage and faith in my future. Right after I cut my bangs, I deleted my entire six figure business off of Instagram. I was done with that life. It no longer aided me to the places I felt I desired to go in life.

To gain something new, a new perspective, a new habit, a new mindset, a new lifestyle, something has to die; something needs to be cut out so the new has room to blossom and grow.

Think of the leaves on a tree. Their cycle of life always yields new life, yet something has to die before it gives birth to something new.

My question to you, are you holding onto something that will turn you lifeless? What if you had the courage to let it go trusting and practicing in faith that if God allows the leaves to cycle ( to grow and to die and to grow again) wouldn’t he have so much more to the meaning of what has to die in you to give birth to something new that will allow you to reside in your purpose? Read that last sentence again but slower. I promise, it will hit the second or third time.

I mean, a leaf.

Think about the time He took to plan out the cycle of a tree and the roots. We are created in His image, wouldn’t that make us that much more important? He allows for things to die in and around us so that we can experience what it feels like to see something new grow in and around us.

What has to die so that you can grow into the person you were called to be?

The breath of fresh air for growth and new life is just around the corner. Let it go. Be courageous and step into something new.

I have found that when I practice courage, it typically ends up in two ways. I either regret my decision and learn a hard life lesson, which is still growth. Or I fight for my life and something beautiful comes from the opportunity to practice surrender.

The opportunity to practice surrender, I find this phrase innately vulnerable. To surrender to something means to cease resistance to an opponent and submit to what comes next.

Pause here.

What comes to mind for you?

What could you cease resistance to? What are you fighting to hold onto that needs to be released? What could you surrender over in faith, in order to see what comes next?

Only you and the Spirit that created you have the keys that answer.

Don’t be afraid to evolve and blossom. It’s going to be a glorious ride.