Letting Go

"Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward."  C.S. Lewis

After working for years with addicts in recovery I've found that our biggest challenge is letting go of pain.

For 17 years I've conducted a group where many men are still dealing with their past.

They may be reliving a bad childhood. Or still angry at an ex who tossed them out or betrayed them. Maybe they want to re-connect with the kids they abandoned years earlier. It could be most any kind of painful experience.

And my suggestion is always the same: learn to live in the here and now.

No matter how painful our past, revisiting it won't make it better. Instead we compound it by wasting our time going over and over the same thing.

Is that the legacy we want leave behind? That we spent our lives stewing about something bad that happened to us?

God has given us this beautiful slice of time that we live in at this moment. Why waste this gift on things we can do nothing about?

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