Editorial April 28, 1986 Issue

Letting them go

BARBARA-JEAN STINSON

Why they wanted to go skiing on that bitterly cold weekend was something I couldn't figure out. The roads were icy, the windchill factor was well below zero, and to make matters worse they wanted to drive our car!

Our two daughters were fully grown and no longer living with us. They were quite capable of making their own intelligent decisions, but I couldn't seem to stop being "Mommy" in family situations such as this one. Fears for their safety seemed to obscure temporarily the many proofs we'd had in their growing-up years of God's constant care.

I'd been praying, however, about releasing our grown children to live their own lives, and suddenly one evening as we all were eating dinner together, the clear thought came to me, "Drop those fears and let go of those girls." For a moment it seemed impossible to do that. But then I realized that this false sense of concern was not something I had to carry around any longer. I could drop it in the same way that I would put down a heavy package I no longer needed to carry. Fear was not my own God-governed thought, and I could refuse to believe any longer that it was. Quietly I released the girls to their Father-Mother God.

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