let go

{I appreciate the feedback I have gotten so far from my sweet readers! I am happy to hear that the bullets do not bore you as much as they bore me! I won't feel so bad about doing my bullet lists in the future...but I will still plan to add more substance in where I can and when I have the time...I am going to brainstorm some things to write about!}

Today, I want to take a break from the bullets and discuss something that has been weighing on my heart lately. Letting go.

I am the kind of person who likes things to be "just so"...I have lived a fairly sheltered life where I have had amazing people in my life, where I have had a very small amount of "bad" things happen, and where I feel like I have a good deal of "control" going on. The funny thing is that, in all honestly, I have very little control in my life at all.

I have learned, in the past few years as a new Christian, that I have never had the control that I thought I had. Growing up, I didn't have any biblical knowledge and therefore had a false view of some things. I thought that I was the one making things happen. I was in control, you better believe.

Only I wasn't. And the more I am learning, the more I am understanding that it is ALL God. Everything that happens, everything I accomplish, everything good and bad that comes my way --  it all comes from Him. It's all His will and His plan and I am just a small part of it. The only thing I can control is ME. My attitude and my choices and my heart.

So lately I have been trying to embrace this thought. I've been looking for inspiration and came across the three above images. I rotate these on my computer desktop so that it is always staring me in the face. Reminders to breathe. To let go. To take life one day at a time and control what I can -- and let go of everything that I can't. It's a difficult concept for a control freak -- but keeping this in mind helps me get through some of the hard times. Because there are hard times. They get heavy.

I am so thankful that God is in control. His plan is being played out, and we may never know why He includes certain things in His plan. I don't believe we are meant to. He has reasons. For me, every single day, I try to just LET GO.