Let it go, Let it go

A few weeks ago, we were on a family walk and Isabelle was on her bike riding without training wheels, a newly learned skill. She was riding in front of us and she had gone a little ways ahead of us and I turned to my husband and asked why wasn't he going with her (knowing how protective he is) and he replied I am learning to let go a little bit. And I thought to myself, Wow, what a wonderful lesson learned. It got me thinking, how many times in life do we let go of the things we want to keep close and not let go of the things we need to?

I myself have been guilty of this. I have often let anger and resentment stir in my heart and mind over things that I don't have control of. Things that people have done to me or my family seem to just dig themselves in and I can't always let them go. In fact, I have gone to counseling to help me digest and expel the anger and resentment so I can get on with my life and be the best mother, wife, person I can be. Why is it this way? Human nature maybe, or maybe its just evil trying to bring us down. Either way it is a hard way to live and a hard thing to overcome. It can and will ruin relationships and those relationships will never be the same.

As a parent, Do you ever want to let go? NO! Why would we want to let go of  such innocent, precious, beautiful little creatures? Especially into this cruel world that we live in. Unfortunately, it is a necessary evil so that our children can be the best people they want to be. We would be doing our children a disservice if we didn't let them be who they wanted to be. That doesn't mean that as they grow that we won't be all up in their business, it just means that they need to learn to be independent and to learn through their own struggles.

Some days it is a real struggle to let go of the things I can't control. To not be able to change the way people treat me or my family. It is hard to let my daughter be independent and let her make her own decisions but I have learned from counseling and prayer and my beautiful family that I need to just let go of the good and the bad. Life is too short!

As annoying as this is, if you listen to the lyrics of the Let IT GO song from the movie Frozen it really does have a deeper meaning.
  
                                             Let it go, Let it go
                                 And I'll rise like the break of dawn
                                             Let it go,  Let it go
                                        The perfect girl is gone

                                             Here I stand
                                          In the light of day
                                        Let the storm rage on,
                               The cold never bothered me anyway!


As we rounded a corner, Isabelle was even farther down and as she tried to turn around to ride back to us she lost control and went down. As my husband took off towards her, the lesson was two-fold. Not only had he let go a little but Isabelle learned that she will fall down but the key is to brush herself off and get right back on and keep riding. And that is exactly what she did. SO thank you my dear husband for the gentle reminder to just let go.