Releasing Your Grip.

What are you holding onto that’s holding you back?

The word “release” has been coming-up in various conversations lately; it came-up again this morning, so I have been thinking about this today.

Release means: to set free from confinement, restraint, or bondage; to free from something that binds, fastens, or holds back.

What I am gripping is what is gripping me?

Lifeguards have to be very careful when rescuing peole from drowning for often the drowning person will get a hold of the guard and take them under with him. Life is no different.

It seems that either of these two things is within my power to release or be released from. The famous Architect and creative genius Franklin Lloyd Wright said that “freedom comes from within”. Most of what has gripped me in my life has been something with in my power to release. Most of what I have gripped I really needed to just open my hand and release. When I do I am set free.

Yet is funny, often when we most need to open our hands and release what we are clutching onto we seem to tighten our grip. I think it is the fear of losing control. Fear has away of making us tighten our grip and when we tighten are grip the results are our entire being is being impacted. When I have a tight muscle in my neck it’s usually a result of what’s gripping me at the moment. When I release, my body releases.

What I think I control actual has control over me.

We think by gripping tighter that we will somehow gain control but this tense grip makes us that much more out of control. The tighter we grip, the less control we have. It’s a paradox, we think by letting go that we will lose control but in a sense we actually gain control.

"Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler. " Proverbs 6:5