Let go.

My favorite book as a child is one where the little boy wants a pet and he keeps capturing all sorts of wild creatures and his mom says "If you love him, let him go, if he comes back to you, he's yours to keep". The animals always ran away and it crushed the little boy. One day his mom got him a puppy and said "If you love him, let him go, if he comes back, he's yours to keep." and he let the puppy go and it came back to him affectionatly. Looking back on the book I realize that the boy was probably a lot better off with an affectionate puppy who would interact with him than an insect or whatever wild creature. His mom was looking out for not only the animal's best intrest, but also her son's.

I think sometimes we're like that little boy and that mom is like God. I mean we are God's children and he does look out for us. But at the same time he knows a lot more about life and what's best for us. So sometimes what we want to keep, God tells us to release for a while at least. And it can sadden us, sometimes we have to give up someone because they died, or stop being someone's close friend because they were influencing you into falling. Sometimes God asks us to let go of love. And we don't always know why. God can take it all away as fast as he can give it to us. And he only puts us through trials so we can grow. He knows the plans he has for us, not to harm us, but to give us a future and a hope.
Sometimes we have a choice in whether to let go and sometimes we don't. Either way, it's for our good if God asks us to let go. So how do you know if he's asking you to let go? The bible is the word of God and ultimately anything that goes against God's word is somehing we should let go of. But anyone who knows the good they o'ught to do and dosen't do it is sinning. So if someone is called to be a missionary you have to let them go.

I think letting go, means putting God at the centre of your life and saying you don't know what's going to happen, but you give God the key to your heart and you will try to do his will and accept it and let in who God wants you too. It means putting your fears behind you because God controls every part of your life. Once you grasp that fully (and it's very hard. We will constantly work at it and fall) we will let go of what God tells us too. See God is in our hearts and often we want to please God and take into account what he says. But we like to feel in control. We have to give the key to what we do and who we let into our hearts, to God.