Letting Things Go

My wife and I will be leaving our current home soon, the third time we've been more or less forced to do so in the last several years.  While we don't necessarily want to go, we know that staying where we are would lead to more frustration and more financial problems, so we need to move on.  One of our most important questions that we've asked ourselves over and over is what you want us to do, God, and the answer of "stay" never felt right for either of us.

So now we have to let go of things again--places and people and friendships.  We have to say goodbye to things that have become dear to us over the last couple of years, trusting that you will provide for us when we move on, that you'll be watching over us and helping us to see the right decisions to make, the right places to go, the best options for us to take.  It's difficult in a lot of ways, God, but we're willing to make the move because we both feel strongly that it's what's best for us--and what you want for us.

Letting go, I suppose, is at its core an exercise in trusting you.  When I let go of something, I have to trust that I won't be lacking something that I absolutely need later on.  When I allow something to slip into my past instead of continuing to be a part of my present, I'm trusting that my present won't be full of need, but that something else will take the place of what I've let go, and that something else couldn't have made its way into my life unless and until I had let go of the limiting something from before.

So we put all this in your hands.  Life moves on and on, and it's not up to us to try to control its directions--it's up to us to live it as best we can and contribute to the world in all the ways that we can.  We'll move on, and we'll do so with trust in you and trust in life.  Thanks in advance.