Chelle Summer

Letting Go = Trusting God

Michelle Rusk

I fully admit that I’m a bit slow when it comes to connecting the spiritual dots.

And I fully admit that letting go is one of my struggles.

There is a sign in an office window at the gym where I swim that says, “Work hard. Pray often. Trust God.” I was thinking about it after I passed last week and I wondered: What would I add to this sign? Did I think it needed something more or was that the message it should be?

That’s when I added, in my head, let go.

But several hours after, I realized that letting go and trusting God are the same. All these years I have struggled to let go and I partly believe it’s because letting go always felt like something I could never accomplish. I mean, really, we talk about letting go all the time but how does one actually do it? I needed an action step for it and I’d never been able to find one.

Now that I know it’s really about trusting God, that actually feels easier for me. Maybe because it’s also a more positive way of putting it. Trusting God is the same as having faith, of being hopeful, of believing.

I can do that. From now on I’m going to remind myself not to use let go, but instead to say, trust, have faith.

That I can do.