I was headed to a local wildlife management area before the world fully woke up, camera bag on the seat beside me, fog still thick across the fields. That is when I noticed the trees. Two of them, standing in perfect alignment with one another, maybe twenty feet apart. The one closest to the pond’s edge was full — genuinely, quietly full. The other stood at that twenty-foot distance from the water and it showed. Same pasture. Same sky. Same drought. Twenty feet of distance from the source, and two entirely different realities. I have lived in both of those trees.
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Unhooked: What God Is Actually Doing When He Teaches You to Let Go | The Author’s Perspective
There is a particular kind of tired that doesn’t come from overwork. It is the exhaustion of holding on to something God has already released from His hand. What we typically call attachment, when it becomes disordered, is not love at all. It is fear wearing love’s clothing, and God, in His mercy, does not preserve the versions of us built on fear. He dismantles them. If you are in that season, this post is for you.