Change requires commitment. Change requires sanguinity.  Change requires endurance. Change requires faith. Change requires grief.

Grief for things or people in our life, whom we had to kiss goodbye. Unless we let what is dead be dead we will not see change. It might be a “dead” relationship or a “dead” situation, whatever the “dead” thing in our life might be, we have to kiss it goodbye.

I am learning this for myself. A very important person in my life said to me the other day, as we were speaking of the “dead thing” in my life, that I am in an endless cycle. And it is true. Unless you let the dead be dead, you will not get out of the cycle.

Now, I understand that we sometimes are so paralyzed with the fear of change, therefore we choose to stay in conversant pain, in toxic conditions or environments, we stay in the to us familiar situation, we stay around the “dead thing”.

It hurts to let go. It hurts deeply. Always wondering when did it die?

But all questions should not matter thus it can not revive.

God told me to be strong and courageous for He will be with me. He will be with me through the change. He will help me to bury the dead relationships or/and the dead situations in my life.

I am so afraid. I know He told me not to be but I am. Moving forward letting go of the past, not knowing what is ahead, wondering if your heart desire will ever become reality, all of this frightens me.Yet God is a promise keeping God. No matter how afraid I might be, I am moving into a new season, a better season and I have to trust God with the fact that what lays ahead of me will be better than what died.

Luckily I know that He promised to work ALL things together for the good of those who love Him and are called according to purpose. Also, all things are possible through Christ who strengthens me.

And often times the “good thing”, the new season, the blessing, is right in front of us but we can not see it, we are consumed with what we are trying to resuscitate and the very blessing God has waiting to be released into our lifes can not get to us, unless we kiss the “dead thing” goodbye.

Goodbye my “dead thing” I thank you for the time we had but know it is time to finally bury you and start into a season of renewal.

by R.