You wake up to a phone call that your son was in a car accident. You get a life altering diagnosis. Somebody close to you dies suddenly. You lose your job when you least expected it. You start to get panic attacks in public places. Your spouse wants to get a divorce…

Have you ever felt like you have lost all control of your life?

Me too.

Over four years ago I had to leave the university I was attending because of how bad my struggle with anxiety was getting. Even as I am writing this, I can feel the tears welling up. I was in a season of life where I battled feelings of not being good enough, every day. I was in an endless cycle of striving to be loved and accepted.

The crazy thing is that I didn’t even realize I felt unloved. I was deceived, unable to recognize the root problem of my struggle. I wasn’t the same person, and this was obvious to my whole family. During this time I started an internship at a Church and worked at a pizza place.

For the next two years I learned to let go of my own ways. I had to surrender to God. I encountered a love that set my heart free. I stepped out of a life of slavery into a life of freedom. But that takes trust in God and surrender. It takes losing control of your life. Sometimes the hardest moments of our lives teach us how much we don’t have control.

In what area of your life have you learned to let go of control? Has there been a circumstance that has seemed out of your control?

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