We are all clinging to something to cope with or maintain control of some aspect of our lives.  In some cases it may be a vice like smoking, whatever or drinking, whatever.  But in other cases it could be obsessive behaviors like excessive cleaning, shopping, avoiding people, craving attention, over-exercising, overeating, toying with gadgets, avoiding pain, adrenaline rush activities, living in regret and the list goes on.  Surely we need tools to function, yet when used in excess they tend to do us more harm than good and typically we don’t realize we are overdoing it, unfortunately.  The effects seem to sneak up on us because we ignore the warnings that say slow down or stop!  We tenaciously hold on at the expense of our finances, relationships, happiness, sanity and even our lives.

Could we just stop, look at ourselves, think for a few moments and ask a few salient questions?  Are these behaviors moving me toward my dreams, who I want to be or a better me?  Am I being swept away by the the current of environmental (societal or cultural) pressures of who I ought to be?  Am I losing myself?  Have I lost myself?  Who am I, really?

Maybe there are strongholds on your life you need to relinquish because they are drowning you in a sea of lost identity or anchoring you to the past and its regrets.  What are you afraid of?  You need to let it go.  What are we afraid of?  We need to let it go, today.

Christ admonishes us to be free (Galatians 5:1).

One day I woke up

Then suddenly I had to stop

To observe where I was

And consider who I am and heading towards

No, it was not instant, but gradual

I lost track by life’s pace and death spiral

But, if I could relinquish my chains

I will be free to be me, holding the reins