Letting go and moving on

WE have to learn this art of letting go and moving on.

Especially these days, when we are bombarded with so many competing things and the possibility of getting cornered by some problem or difficulty is very high, we need to know how to let go and move on.

We have to realize that there are some predicaments that we cannot anymore resolve or overcome, at least, humanly speaking. But if we have trust in God’s providence, we should be convinced that there is no point getting stuck and entangled in them for so long that we cannot do anything else.

We just have to let go and move on with our life which continues to offer us more challenges to face, more goals to reach. In this, it pays also if we know how not to get too emotional or too psychologically affected by the twists and turns of our life, the possible consequences of failure and frustrations, etc.

We should learn how to discipline our emotions and psychological dynamic. It is good if we know how to be cool, sport and game, and avoid getting easily nervous and tense. Let’s remember that our physical, emotional and psychological make-up can only take so much burden. Beyond that, we break down.

It also helps that we know how to regularly purify our memory and train our imagination to tread on the positive, constructive and encouraging path, rather than on the negative, destructive and discouraging one.

Let’s remember that it is in our spiritual selves, always open and receptive to God’s grace, that can take on anything. It’s in our spiritual life that we should take utmost care of, since it is the one that enables us go beyond what our physical, emotional and psychological constitution can manage.

If properly nourished by faith, hope and charity and the many other human virtues, our spiritual life can see a picture much bigger than what our physical, emotional and psychological selves can see. It can tackle anything!

It is in our spiritual life where we can always feel reassured that everything would just be all right, because as St. Paul would put, “all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are called according to his purpose.” (Rom 8, 28) We should never forget these reassuring words of St. Paul.

We have to learn to live a proper and healthy sense of abandonment which is not at all a case of negligence or an I-don’t-care attitude. We have to be completely responsible for everything in our life, although we know that life has a lot more to offer and to challenge us than what we can handle. There are mysteries to tackle and humanly impossible predicaments to bear, and we just have to know how to live with them.

Christ told us not to worry about anything because he knows how to derive good even from evil. If we strive to assume the mind and the very life of God, then we can also have this worry-free attitude, and would know how to let go of certain difficulties and move on to the many other things that our life will ask us to get involved.

Let’s remember that while we have to be 100 percent responsible for our life, God is also 100 percent responsible for it. Everything is actually in God’s hands. Our 100 percent should be united to the 100 percent  of God.

We should just focus on doing what is good, on following what we know is the will of God for us. We actually cannot afford to waste time and to get stranded in some corner. There are so many things to do, many people to reach out to, many problems to resolve, many places to go, etc./PN