Let go and Let God

Probably one really does not fully understand the meaning of this saying, “Let go and Let God.” It becomes so difficult to let go somebody or something that one was holding on to so dearly. He/she would do anything to keep the relationship to a person or an animal, or hold on to a position or hold possession of a thing. But, comes a time, in everybody’s life, when one has to come to terms with reality. One needs to give up. Letting go is associated with loss of security, with a fear that one would lose a significant part of oneself, one would not be what one is, without that. It also has so much of pleasure attached to it. One may think that if one gives up that which always brought him/her so much of happiness, one may land up in a state of unhappiness. Rightly so, this state is so desperate. Most people wouldn’t dare to venture into such a situation. As I was struggling to come to terms with the fact of letting go, the words of  my Rector, Fr. Plascencia struck me, "sadness should always be accompanied by hope".

My friend Mackley was sharing with me that no creature can fully satisfy us, but only the creator can. Putting all these insights together, it would be appropriate to say that letting go needs to be accompanied by Letting God into our lives. God will fill the hollow spaces of our heart, and help new meaning emerge into our lives. Again, another beautiful quote comes to my mind, “If you have truly loved, then let go, if it ever was yours, it will come back to you, but if it does not, then it was never yours.”