Comments on: Let Go of the Rope

By: moira

moira — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 09:30:19 +0000

Well, I have to deliberately and consciously LET GO of anything I’m holding on to EXCEPT God….EVERY moment of EVERY day!!!
I wish is was a one-time deal but it’s not.
Maybe that’s why God designed it that way…so that I am reminded that I need Him ALL the time and not just when the going gets tough….though that’s when I hang on the hardest!!!!

So, I have to LET GO of the ropes which I’m placing my misplaced security…….and hang onto the God-rope instead!!!!!
I’m learning…..ALL the time!!!!

By: Cathy Davis

Cathy Davis — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:37:17 +0000

What I have appreciated so much about Linda is her willingness and humility in sharing her day to day life with this companion of suffering, cancer. Her openess through her letters to friends has not only helped me pray for her but it has, hopefully, shown me how to walk through this kind of suffering with others. I don’t live close enough to Linda to stop by but perhaps someday I will have some one near by who is dealing with huge life pain and will not be afraid to walk with them.

By: Lilly Green

Lilly Green — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 22:08:02 +0000

We’ve gone through some hard times, but these last couple of years have been some hard events, coupled with a sense of betrayal in those that you had hoped you could count on. So I really question at times if I am “surrendering” to the world and the “what will be will be,” or if I am surrendering to the Lord of Hosts, because I am happy in Him and confident in the fact that He is still leading. My theology tells me one thing, but as is always the case, circumstances are topsy turvy, fogging the mirror. But we press on!

By: Susan Gaddis

Susan Gaddis — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 14:46:24 +0000

That’s a hard one, Lilly. Surrender or giving up–it is difficult to know the difference. Are we suppose to surrender or push through or just give up? Am I deceiving myself in thinking I am surrendering when I am not?

I’ve loaned Joan Chittister’s book, Scarred by Struggle, Transformed by Hope, out to a lot of people because she seems to tackle these big questions in such practical, gut lived ways. In times of silence, I need the elders in the faith to walk my path with me and speak into the silence. Sometimes that leads me into the “knowing” where I can hear the voice of the Spirit once again.

By: Lilly Green

Lilly Green — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 04:10:03 +0000

What is hard sometimes is knowing whether my letting go is truly in surrender or in giving up in disapppintment, Sometimes it kind of feels the same when I walk through the times of big silences.

By: tom gaddis

tom gaddis — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:51:08 +0000

Thanks for sharing Linda. Powerful. It makes me pray, “Lord, help me let go of my rope and trust you.”