Letting Go of the Good Stuff

My tagline is “Surrendering the good, the bad, and—maybe one day—the chocolate”. It’s easy to understand surrendering the bad stuff. Fear, anger, addictions, etc…those are unhealthy things that only imprison us if we keep them around. The chocolate? Although few encourage me to surrender it, everyone understands that at the levels I once consumed it, it wasn’t good for me.

But surrendering the good?

Why? Who would do that?

Well when God asks, I do.

I don’t mean surrendering my husband or kids, not even close. I’m definitely in an active writing season and it’s centered on fiction. I don’t know where the roller coaster is going but I know this is where my focus has to be. I have projects outside fiction writing that I knew weren’t lining up for the rest of this year and/or next year. Good things, great ministries and projects I love being a part of.

But God made it clear it was time to let them go.

I handed in my resignation effective January for the Internet Cafe Marriage Counter. I started out a few years ago as a marriage writer for Exemplify and that moved over the the Cafe. I love writing monthly articles to encourage marriages to strive for oneness. It’s a good thing, but a ministry God made it clear it’s time to let this good thing go. Let someone new step in and move their ministry forward just as He plans to take me to a new place.

I also sense the webinars I was believing was to be a very active part of my schedule won’t be. There just isn’t time. My sense is I will promote them as small groups where people sign up if interested. If I get a few people interested I’ll take one book at a time to journey through. If not, I’ll know I’m supposed to let that completely, go, too.

All good stuff but time to let it go.

How about you? Have you ever felt it was time to surrender something, even though it was a good thing?

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