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This weekend I was blessed to go to a retreat with several wonderful ladies. After feeling the Holy Spirit in that place this weekend and being released of several things that were holding me back, I spent time with several other women from my hometown. As we sat sharing several things about our lives, our worries, just everything, inspiration hit me. Or should I say the Holy Spirit hit me. I've always wanted to be a writer, ever since I was young. I've written stories and poems for people I know but never really shared it with anyone. Last night I came back to my room and I had words rattling around my head. I grabbed a notebook and a pencil and wrote the following:

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Lord, we confess we’ve hung on so tightly to things that are familiar

We’ve gripped tem to our chest like a child with a favorite toy

That they know will be taken away

But the things that we’ve hung onto can cause us so much pain, Lord.

We’ve hung onto our fear of an unknown we can’t name

We’ve clung to the unwillingness to allow a growing child to spread their wings

We’ve tightened our hear around a fear that your blessings could be snatched away

We confess that we harbor anger towards you for loved ones that you took home

Before we could fully understand why

But Lord we can let all that go…

For you know our days and nights and have a plan for each of us

You have given us a special gift of a child that we have to release to you

So they can blossom with your love

We need to let go and accept your blessings and know you have great things in store for us

We let go of our anger, because our loves ones are with you Lord

And although we can’t hold them now, we know you had planned their days long ago.

And we will dance and sing with them again one day, Lord.

We let go of all these things Lord, we release them from our hands and our hearts

Thank you God for loving us so much to send your son to die for our sins

Thank you God for giving us your guidance as we travel along this road as sisters, mothers, daughters, as

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