when i read this entry in ser's blog, i was touched and the moment of realisation hit me: God is there to catch us when we fall. Letting go is not an act of cowardism or escaping from reality, it's the courage to embrace uncertainty and letting Him take care of the rest.

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You don’t hold onto your faith, your faith holds on to you. You do not hold onto God. God holds onto you. I think the point of our struggles is not that we are strong enough to fight and survive alone. It’s not a test of our faith to see if we have the willpower to choose God when everything in this world screams at us to choose despair, bitterness, anger, loneliness, and disbelief. Struggles are not a cruel experiment to see if you can keep holding on. Struggles illuminate the fact that we cannot hold on. We let go. And it is there, in our weakness, brokenness, exhaustion, and pain that God is ever present. Not because you made it but because God values you, loves you, and cares so deeply for you, for me, for us that He has never abandoned humanity. He is with us. I will fight. I will not quit. I will wake up each morning and breathe and get out of bed and choose life. Time and time again and endure because I know at the end of the day, when I can no longer fight, can no longer keep it together, can no longer hang on, I know Someone is there to catch them. So I let go. And the mysterious presence of God finds me, surrounds me, holds me up, and brings peace into their despair. –kate

There’s so much power in letting go, as oxymoronic as it sounds. Letting go is the ultimate expression of trust, humility, and courage. The world may see it as helplessness, but what I see in letting go is the courage and willingness to embrace uncertainty, and it’s not easy. Letting go is not leaving bits to God and saving some for self – it is surrender; it is not giving up, or losing hope – it is a positive expectation of God’s goodness to shine in our lives without doing what we want to do, but to let God lead and guide and prompt us to do what He thinks is good, to obey God even if we may not understand.

This is simply amazing. God is good.

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