Release the need to control the outcome

Three steps to move forward with your life

“You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith, and hope.”

Thomas Merton

Let go:

Are you exhausted by the desire to be in control; by the desire to control family members, your circumstances, your feelings, your present or future? Are you anxious about what lies ahead?

Start over:

Practice letting go. Release the need to know or control the outcome – “where it is all going.”

Move forward:

Be open to what is before you in the present moment. Can you embrace this moment without needing to change it and approach it with “courage, faith, and hope?”


Three steps to move forward with your life is based on encouragement from Susan Miller’s bestselling book, After the Boxes Are UnpackedThe book guides uprooted women through the process of letting go of the past, starting over with trust, and moving forward in faith.

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