"Let it be"-Part 2

I don't follow women's soccer very closely (at all?), but one couldn't miss the chatter about the misplaced goal in last week's tournament game. It was on every sports talk show, every newspaper sports section, twitter etc. etc. A young woman U.S. player headed the ball into the opposing team's net (by accident!) and the U. S. lost the game by that point. Most of the sports casters I heard were very sympathetic and wondered how a coach could console a player following such a freak accident.

I would guess the usual supportive conversation would go something like this. "You have to let it go. It was an accident. It could happen to anybody...We would have won this game if any number of other things had happened. You have to forget it and move on." But, of course, it was this woman's worst nightmare. Right there on world television. Right there in the most important game of her life. The memory will never "go" away. Because that's what "let it go" means. "Let it go away."

Again there is a difference between "let it go" and "let it be." She will never forget it. She can try to "let it go." She can try to minimize it...explain it...understand it...include others in the blame...push it away. Try to do something in her head to make it go away. But the reality is that it happened.  It happened in her life. It is. "Let it be."

We all have real nightmares in our lives. We have directly caused some of those nightmare and some are simply part of life---of being human. We want to "let it go" away. We deny, minimize, blame others for their part. Friends say things like, "I don't know if you've ever let that go...you still hold on to it." When we acknowledge those living nightmares, when we acknowledge our responsibility for them, when we understand they are not going to go away, we learn to "let them be." When we move into "letting it be," the nightmares begin to lose their power. They don't consume our thinking. They don't play over and over in our head.

Can we  think of God as our "coach?"...not His most important role but one that might be helpful as we consider these nightmares. He says, "I remember your sins no more." His most important role was to die for our sins...He forgives. He says, "Come to Me and I will give you rest...Let it be."

Today---let it be.

Blessings-Penny