What am I willing to leave behind? This question goes beyond this Season of Lent. This is truly a life changing question that is perhaps the foundation for any change that I make moving forward.
Whether its old habits, toxic and stagnant relationships, or mundane average thinking. What am I willing to leave behind? Can I be truly be honest with choosing the things that I must let go of in order to live free? I have done a great deal of self-analysis over the years on this blog. I have dissected myself for the world to see, but even with some of that, I have been hard-pressed to let go of all the things that keep me stuck.
Truth-telling is hard work. Standing in my mirror and really looking into my heart and mind is no easy task. I can easily be too harsh, or go too easy. I can see what I want to see or I can focus on the worst parts. There has to be a balance and for me, getting to the balance is the biggest challenge.
This Season of Lent I am committed to asking what am I willing to leave behind in order to begin anew? What can I let go of and never return to? This simple Christian question is a life question indeed. Perhaps this is my age old question underneath all the other self-awareness questions that beg me to answer... Who am I and what do I want? Maybe the question moving forward is Who am I to God...in God and what does God want for me? Is this an aha moment? I am thinking so. I am feeling like this moves me into a different direction away from thinking about me alone, and into thinking of myself as a community. Hhmm, will save this thought for another post.
I am taking to prayer today, the overarching question of what am I willing to leave behind? I need divine guidance on this. I don't want to hastily rattle off a list of things I think I could let go of. I want to move as God would have me move.
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This is deep.
I like that you are using the season to reinforce your purpose. Myself, I am a "the time is now" kind of person but sometimes coincidence makes it seems as though there is something stronger at work.
When I took action on what would bring me to where I am now, it came near the close of the year. I took that as the impetus to throw off what I felt was dragging me down and to move one step at a time towards my goal. The three years, the twist and turns have melted away, I am here and I am who I thought I always was!
I know that you can do it... whatever you need is already with you or it will avail itself to you on your journey! Do your thing, Babz...
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