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Do you cling to things being removed from your life?

Jul 03, 2025
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The other day I was feeling kind of low and in a bit of chaos, and needed to get a refresh.

So I spent some time in Hebrews 10...if you're not familiar, it's one of the books in the Bible in the New Testament. 

For me, God's word is where I go for insight, focus and reflection. (You might go somewhere else, but I think the lesson here is universal.)

So paraphrasing, one of the things that caught my attention was

"He sacrifices the first, to establish the second."

And then later as it went further along, it said,

"...and he sat down.

I thought about that in my own life.

So often I'm clinging to things being removed from my life, or that are going away, or things that are changing. 

Because I'm a human being—just so we're clear šŸ˜‚ā€”and I don't love change. Because change creates chaos in my brain!

Then I thought about the word 'sacrifice'. 

(ā¬‡ļø Btw, watch instead of reading, or read on below. ā¬‡ļø) 

Do you cling to things being removed from your life?

A lot of different words could've be used there, but the word used was sacrifice.

And there IS a sacrifice in letting go of something.

There IS a sacrifice in laying something down.

Yet the sacrifice is so the next thing can be established.

And wow.

If I need to let go of something—to sacrifice something—to make room for something else...

Who am I to get in the way of that?

And then there's the sitting down.

If I'm like, "Hey, I'm going to go sit down," I'm doing that to rest. (And PS - GOALS is to move into rest out of confidence, rather than exhaustion.)

Like when we're at a ballgame and something big happens, we get on our feet, we're screaming, things are intense.

⚾ Maybe it's a grand slam.

⚾ Maybe it's a sacrifice fly that drives a runner home to score.

And when things calm down again, what do we do? We're like, okay, I can sit down. I can breathe. I can sit back and watch. 

So...first there's sacrifice.

...And because of sacrifice, something new/better can be established.

...And after all that? It's sitting season.

So if you've been clinging to the way things were...maybe it's time for a sacrifice, so you can pave the way for something new?

And if you've already been sacrificing and building...maybe it's about time for a little sitdown to relax and enjoy the game?

I hope this blesses you, like it did me.

And if it doesn't resonate with you today, maybe you have someone in your life who needs to hear it too.

If so, thanks for sharing, and thank you so much for doing life with me.

Blessings,
Dawn


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