Without letting go, we can go nowhere, I read this morning. Let go is my mantra during my 90-Day Summer Simplifying Challenge.We are left where we are if we cannot trust. Read my 90-Day Summer Simplifying Manifesto!!
A Recovering Magpie’s Let Go Mantra
Going nowhere is where I have been going for a long time. When you are on that path, you really have no idea how to get off and get back on track. It is a destructive journey or the same ole, same ole. Comfort, laziness, acceptance, apathy…all play a part in keeping me there. “Let Go Rebecca…Let Go!”
The renewal journey of the 90-Day Summer Simplifying Challenge, has opened the door to letting go and trusting.
{Coming clean} I have major trust issues!
My Summer Simplifying Challenge
I learned a few years ago that I do not trust anyone…even God and especially myself. That was a difficult thing to discover about me. I had been given so many reasons and opportunities to trust…yet I didn’t. I held tight control of everything…and lost most of it! I was not doing a great job of it. So I was forced to face giving up control…letting go and letting God.
You see this woman gain wisdom within the losses. I learned that I actually have no control of anything. POOF…it’s gone became a way of life for me back in 2008-2010. I had no choice but to let go. I grew wise then. I grew to trust God as He was ALL I had left.
The Let Go of the Summer Simplifying Challenge is different than that time. The choice to let go was an easy one this year. I am ready for an overhaul of magnificent…no EPIC proportions in every aspect of my life. I stand before you today a changed woman who has her head firmly attached to her shoulders. I am ready, willing and more than able to let go with a happy heart.
It took a long time to get here. I know where I am headed and I am no longer on the trip to nowhere. {insert happy joy joy here}
I took a while for me to understand the why I was so ready to undertake my Summer Simplifying Challenge. I am old enough to know that sometimes we just never know the why. However, I know my why. I know I was lost and overwhelmed and just plain tired of the chaos that had become my everyday life.
FINI…I am done. The Summer Simplifying Challenge is my means of escaping the chaos of my life as it was. I no longer need to hold in so tightly to things of the past. I can let go and welcome in the things that I now have room for in my life. And it is good!!
Today’s Accomplishments
- One box, sorted and things placed into the ‘outta here’ boxes!
- The house is clean and orderly.
Today’s Setbacks
- None.
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