HOLDING ON LOOSELY
Helicopter parents. Control freaks. Perfectionists. Intolerants. Over-consumers. Social media junkies. We all fit in there somewhere. Read one woman’s stories of clinging, turning loose, and becoming free.
We are overly busy helicopter parents, control freaks, perfectionists, intolerants, over-consumers and social media junkies–who worry, fear, laugh less, and always want more. In the midst of it, we wonder what it would feel like to open our hands and turn loose of all of it.
In HOLDING ON LOOSELY: Opening My Hands, Lightening My Load, and Seeing Something Else, author Dana Knox Wright tells stories of one who is hardwired to cling. To her children when they asked for a blessing to go. To someone else’s ideas, when she didn’t trust her own. She held on to prejudice when she would tell you she didn’t. She shut down for days while clinging to fear. She clung to youthfulness as if what would come next couldn’t be her life’s cherry on top.
In a particular season of her life, she recognized her bent to possess, to keep, to hold tightly, and to control was completely contrary to Jesus’ example. This is one woman’s history of holding on and her stories of turning loose–stories of the gentle and firm, humorous and heartbreaking ways God led her to turn loose. It is living minimally from the inside out.
An excerpt from Chapter 13-WALKING ON LAVA
“Turning Loose of the Comfort Zone”
From Holding on Loosely
By Dana Knox Wright
Listen to me. Gravity is real. It wants nothing more than to pull me down into a comfy chair and hold me there. It offers me a blanket for snuggling and a warm cup of cocoa. It is so very enticing, and with the passing of each year of my life it becomes more and more challenging to defy gravity and to keep moving. However, every time we rise up with great intention to head to fluid places and uncertain waters, we kick gravity in the tail. When we forgo playing it safe in favor of simply playing, we unhand The Comfort Zone.Imagine two middle-aged gals crossing a rushing river by way of a felled tree. One yells back to the other, hey what do you think our kids would say if they knew we were doing this? They laugh and then the other one shouts an answer that can be heard over the roar of the water.
They can never find out!
Sometimes when I unhand my comfort zone, I find myself in the neighboring town at a new restaurant trying something called pho. And sometimes, in the most thrilling turn of events, I get to walk on lava.
(Link to the video on YOUTUBE)
one overnight stay at the Llano Line Shack.
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