Let it go

Recently, I was sitting with my two year old goddaughter watching television, when she suddenly sprung up from the couch and burst into song. She was singing the chorus of Let It Go from the movie Frozen and it was just delightful. At only two years old, she was in perfect pitch, all her hand, head and foot movements were exactly as Elsa had done them, but the only understandable words were “Let it go”.

She sang the chorus over and over again, and each time she belt out “let it go”, she became more animated and happier than the previous time. And as I looked on at this glee-filled little girl, I could see the child-like cheerful abandonment that we are required to display when we “let everything go, and let God”. That was so apparent, and so real in the innocence of my little goddaughter, I felt as though I could touch it. And it got me thinking…

Have you ever tried holding a beach ball under water? It takes what seems like every ounce of your strength to do so and still you can’t keep that ball under water. It pops right back up to the surface, bringing you with it. That’s what happens to that thing you’ve buried deep within your subconscious in your attempt to “let it go”. You honestly believe that you have let it go, after all, you buried it in the deepest recesses, so deep that you don’t even think about it anymore. 

So, as far as you’re concerned it is gone but every once in a while something may happen to trigger that long-forgotten-deeply-buried memory to pop back up to the surface bringing with it all the same painful emotions, fresh as the day it occurred. In a flash, every grave inside you is opened up, every old wound emerges, and only then you realize that you have not really let go of anything.

If you’re serious about letting things go, you need simply to ask the Holy Spirit for help. Allow Spirit to go into your graveyard of memories and exhume every one of them. Allow Spirit to rid you of every toxic memory that you've tried far too long to let go but have failed in your attempts. 

Burying your hurtful memories is not letting go of those memories, they’re still there lingering deep inside you, quietly destroying you – your past destroying your present and leaving you hopeless about your future. It’s time to become as childlike as a two year old with a heart full of glee and a disposition of cheerful abandon and truly let it go.

Let it go    Shelley Johnson 24-May-2016