Fall Release

This morning the fall air is crisp.  Les is busy working on our washer, which had an unfortunate relationship with a too fussy blanket, washed by accident by a young lady in our home.  Two or three emptying later, we're still working on unclogging the filters. It's a big visual today of what happens when we hold on to things we were never intended to hold onto. The water is murky, unnatural, and rots.  Had the water simply been released, it would have allowed for new, fresh water to continue cleaning and making clear that which it was intended.

This week was a difficult one. Unexpected challenges and unexpected outcomes.  God is God and all is well.  It is easy to trust God when the sun is shining, but as I get older I realize trusting God makes the hard times so much easier too.  I don't have to understand, I don't have to logically make it make sense, I just have to know that God is God and He has a plan to use even the most painful experiences for good.

As I look outside my office window and see the leaves turning bright colors and beginning to fall from their branches I am reminded that we too need to let go of those things that no longer help us to grow. I know I too often hang on to old experiences or thoughts that no longer help bring in the energy and life to my existence.  As God made the tree to let go of that which no longer can absorb light and grow, so must I learn to let go to wither and return to the soil that which cannot help me grow.

What will you let go of this fall?