Just For Today Learning To Let Go

 Just for today I will be joyful, optimistic, and grateful.  I will take time to notice the gifts in me, in others, and in my surroundings and let the rest go. 

 Holding on to anger and pain doesn't fix anything.  Burying a grudge deep within and putting layers of blame on top of the hurt doesn't bring healing.  Whether the irritation or the wound is recent or something we've held for a long time, perhaps today is the day to finally let go, so we can be joyful, optimistic and grateful. 

 Our shame about things done in the past is often the greatest barrier to living joyfully today.  Jesus paid with His life so we could have eternal life and freedom from guilt and shame through forgiveness of our sins.  The devil seeks to keep us hiding in the darkness of unforgiveness so we will feel like damaged goods.  It’s time to let the past go into the cleansing river of God’s unlimited forgiveness.

Whoever conceals their sins does not prosper, but the one who confesses and renounces them finds mercy.   (Proverbs 28:13 NIV) 

 We have all these great people around us as examples. Their lives tell us what faith means. So we, too, should run the race that is before us and never quit. We should remove from our lives anything that would slow us down and the sin that so often makes us fall.  (Hebrews 12:1 ERV)

Prayer: Heavenly Father, You know me, and You know all about my circumstances and the state of my heart.  I bring it all before You and choose to let it go into Your cleansing river of forgiveness, so that I may have joy and peace in my life today and forevermore.  Amen

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