Actively Letting Go
Letting go is a participatory process, not a passive
one. Our
task is to have the courage to identify what needs
to be
released, THEN be willing to work with God to let it go.
It's hard to let go of something until you know what
you're
grasping. It's also impossible to let go unless
you're sincerely
WILLING to be free of it. Sometimes we have an
unspoken ego
investment in holding on to what ails us.
Once we make the commitment, we watch for ways that we
can cooperate with God's guidance. For instance, if
we say we
want to let go of our resentment but we continue to
talk about
"what a rotten thing they did," then we are not
participating!
We are reinforcing the negative pattern.
We must have response-ability---that is, engage our God-
given ability to respond, rather than react.
--from "An Interview
with Linda Douty",
author of How Can I Let Go if I Don't
Know I am
Holding On?