Letting Go: Pathway to an Amazing Life

by: Sandy Hancock

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Balloons and streamers! Having joy in our hearts. Finding satisfaction in life. Discovering the picture of happiness we have in our minds. These are things we all pursue. But what path does this pursuit take us on? There are many choices in life. Travel with Sandy as she leads us on her  journey to find hope and what she discovered to be the pathway to an amazing life.

Excerpts . . .

   "You may have heard it said that "life is a bowl of cherries." So you wonder why you were left with the pits. Life can be hard and often is not fair. Sometimes the pain can be as overwhelming as standing on the sand at a beach and being hit by a huge wave. Your heart cries out in agony, yet no one hears."

   "Choices--some I had made were good but too many led to a kind of disorienting pain. I believed I was walking down the path I should have been on. Yet life did not seem to go as I expected, or at least not what I had hoped. My dreams were not coming true. Why was life so hard?"

   "This pattern of feeling lonely and finding relief with a new relationship followed me much of my life. I had a desire to have the type of family once again that I had known as a child. I wanted to be loved and to give love. I desired to belong somewhere and to feel safe. These are all good desires--desires that God created us to have.

However, I did not realize these desires had become more important to me than my relationship with God. Instead of first seeking His desires for me, I selfishly sought what I wanted, relegating God to the fringes of my life. I wanted God on my own terms and was convinced that in order to be loved I had to do things my own way, not God's way. I had become trapped in a faulty way of thinking."