Let Go & Let God...

Unique Perspectives: Let Go & Let God...

By Kim Stevens

Let Go and Let God…

I’ve been practicing this a lot lately. Sounds so simple. Easy. But it’s definitely not!

In fact, I think it takes a lot more than faith.  It actually takes discipline. Isn’t that odd, that letting go would take discipline? I know so many of you reading this will get it. It’s turning the old, “Don’t just sit there, DO SOMETHING!” upside down… to “Don’t just do something, SIT THERE!”

Because we live in a world that rewards doing. Fixing. Figuring it out. Pushing through. So when something matters to us, our instinct is to do more… not less. To hold on tighter… not let go.

And yet, there comes a point where doing more doesn’t help. That’s the moment this idea really gets tested.

To allow God… or the Universe… to do its thing can feel scary. Honestly, it can feel completely counterintuitive. Like we’re just supposed to sit back and do nothing? That doesn’t feel right.

But I don’t believe I’m doing nothing. I believe the Universe has answers I don’t have. I believe it supports me, always and in all ways. But I have to give it space.

For me, it looks like this: I do everything I can in a situation. I show up. I think it through. I take the action that feels right. And then, this is the hard part, I let it go. I stop trying to force it.

I trust that the next right action… the intuitive nudge… will come. I’ve heard it said, and I just LOVE this… that God will cause me to notice.

When I do this… the results are downright miraculous. You would not believe how many times I’ll say to Sarah, who I work with, “this came to me in the shower… or while meditating… or doing the laundry.” Or, “guess who called?”

I have experienced this over and over again. Which makes it a little easier to trust the next time. Not effortless. But definitely easier.

Here’s the thing… I’ve seen what happens when I finally let go. Things move. Things show up. People call. Ideas come. Solutions present themselves.

And more often than not, things fall into place in ways I never could have imagined.