It is hard to let go of things, I totally understand, Maree. Giving up your board position must have been very difficult. But I’m glad God foresaw that you would need the extra time in the other ministry. It can be hardest giving up one good thing for another good thing, but even good things have to be prioritized. We can’t do it all, even when we’d like to. Thank for sharing this here.

1. Hard to let go of clothes
2. I am going to head upstairs in a minute and get rid of a dish I don’t use. I saw it last night as I put away some new bowls I got. – Jeans that a hole in them.
3. Recently I gave up a board position on a non-profit. It was so hard to give up. I thought it was to give me time to write a book but ended up needing the time for a ministry I lead. Glad I had the time available. Thank you for sharing with Grace & Truth Christian Link-Up.

I’m glad these questions are giving you reason to pause, June. That’s how I feel with your hymn series, too! 🙂 God gives us what we need at the right time.

I’ll go read your post next, Laurie!

Yes, more negativity just isn’t what I need in my life either. I follow the news closely as it is; I don’t need to see it on all my social media too. I remember when Facebook used to be more fun.

Race t-shirts are part of my hoarding collection too. I’m sure I don’t have the quantity (or the distance ones!) like you do. Among others, I’m still holding on to a 15K shirt from 1991 (I’m embarrassed to admit, ha).

Yes, I’ve also hidden a few friends on FB because I don’t want to shut them off entirely. I hope to return to seeing their posts again one day when I can read them more calmly. ha. It’s my attitude I need to work on.

I’m torn like you are with clothes. I don’t want to be wasteful and get rid of clothes that I can still wear just to trade them in for newer ones. Yet right now my closet is getting too crammed so it’s time for me to release a few more things. I need to do the backward-hanger trick to see how long I actually go without wearing something. Then it might be easier to let it go. Sometimes I’ll move clothes to another closet now that the girls are gone, and if I discover after a year that I have never missed those items, it’s easier to let go. 🙂

Those church transitions can be so hard. But what a blessing that you’ve made a special new friend in the process! And a blessing for her too.

You make good points, Andrew. Eventually we all will have to release our place in the world. Some are just given more of a headstart due to illnesses. 🙁 Blessings to you and Barb.

I think it’s great that you have pared down your wardrobe, Shannan. I go through spurts of cleaning out. I need to get my daughters to go through my closet with me; they have a way of telling me what needs to go! ha.

You are an excellent writer—I already know that from reading your blog—so I hope you’ll have more opportunities ahead to get that article in. And if not on that subject, then another. It’s hard to let things go, though, when it’s something we can/want to do. 🙁 The Rock has recently expanded teaching GED classes at their new campus and I’ve been asked if I wanted to help. I would love to, but this just doesn’t seem to be the season for me to start another new thing. I’m having a hard time letting it go, but I need to release it.

I’m so glad you listened to the Lord and retired to do more writings. 🙂 We’ve been blessed by it, even though I know you were a blessing in your counseling ministry as well.

I’m encouraged to hear you had the courage to let go of your fall Bible study; I recently turned down an opportunity to help teach GED classes at our church. I really would love to do it, but I know that if I said yes, it would make me a flustered woman in everything else I am currently doing. A season for everything and everything in its season. When other things slow down, maybe the Lord will reopen that door for me. Thanks for your example, Pam!

I have some high school friends on FB that I really do need to let go of right now. I don’t want their negative and divisive posts potting up on my feed or in my life. This may be the push I need to let them go.

And…as for T-shirts, I have a whole box of them from various races that I don’t wear, but I just can’t (for sentimental reasons) let go of them. I worked hard to earn some of them!

Letting go is difficult! 🙂