Let it go!

LET IT GO! I say it to myself, to my friends and to my family. Letting go is so much easier said, sometimes preached, than it is to do. It's about keeping things that serve us and releasing everything that doesn't. I recently had a friend tell me my life is like the first flower after a forest fire. Her image was that there are black ruins all around and out of the ash's emerges a sprout. I am the sprout. I keep thinking about that analogy when I find myself holding on to "stuff". Quickly, I imagine that I am re-lighting that forest fire.... It makes letting the "stuff" go easier. Moving forward, finding peace and giving forgiveness.