The Art Of Letting Go

“Do not let your heart be troubled.” His words do not seem to help ease your hurt, do they? Letting go is such a painful process that words — no matter how beautiful and sincere they are— can even intensify the sting of separation. No matter how much we are assured that the separation is only temporary, we still believe that it is better for people we love to be physically present.

But love is not love until it lets go. One who professes love but refuses to let go is not a lover. He is a parasite. Letting go is the ultimate test of love. But their mutual letting go did not mean abandonment or betrayal. Their letting go was the ultimate challenge of their love for one another. – you and I included – would have to grow with faith and hope.

Love demands faith and is nourished by hope. Our faith convinces us what our physical reality fails to prove. Our hope sustains us where human expectation falls short: Faith, hope, and love as St. Paul wrote, are the things that last to the end; and the greatest of them is love. But love is not love until it lets go.