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Me:\u00a0 Look at all those gifts!\u00a0 Can you afford all that?<\/p>\n

Prodigal:\u00a0 I guess that’s where the shoe pinches the toes.<\/p>\n

Me:\u00a0 Well I hope you still have fun with the family.<\/p>\n

Prodigal:\u00a0 Lets share something encouraging.<\/p>\n

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To let go doesn’t mean to stop caring, it means I can’t do it for someone else.<\/p>\n

To let go is not to cut myself off, it’s the realization that I don’t control another.<\/p>\n

To let go is not to enable, but to allow learning from natural consequences.<\/p>\n

To let go is to admit powerlessness, which means the outcome if not in my hands.<\/p>\n

To let go is not to try to change or blame another, I can only change myself.<\/p>\n

To let go is not to care for, but to care about.<\/p>\n

To let go is not to fix, but to be supportive.<\/p>\n

To let go is not to judge, but to allow another to be a humans being.<\/p>\n

To let go is not to be in the middle arranging all the outcomes, but to allow others to affect their own outcomes.<\/p>\n

To let go is not to be protective, it is to permit another to face reality.<\/p>\n

To let go is not to deny but to accept.<\/p>\n

To let go is not to nag, scold, or argue, but to search out my own shortcomings and to correct them.<\/p>\n

To let go is not to adjust everything to my desires but to take each day as it comes and to cherish the moment.<\/p>\n

To let go is not to criticize and regulate anyone but to try to become what I dream I can be.<\/p>\n

To let go is not to regret the past but to grow and live for the future.<\/p>\n

to let go is to fear less and love more.<\/p>\n

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Author unknown.<\/p>\n

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Matthew 5:9<\/p>\n

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.<\/p>\n

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Jennifer Van Allen<\/p>\n

www.faithincounseling.org<\/p>\n

www.theprodigalpig.com<\/p>\n

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