Relinquish

My one word. Relinquish.

At the beginning of a typical New Year I would have made some great New Year’s resolutions to live healthier, lose weight, get organized, get my desk cleaned out, and be super mom getting my boys to do the same. I would still be doing pretty well to this point except that it is already a week into the New Year and I am just now righting a post about New Year’s resolutions right?

I had not heard of this idea of one word to motivate and drive my year without making any resolutions until this year. (Apparently, I must have been living under a rock.) Typically, being this far behind on my New Year’s resolutions would be driving me insane. I have a bit of a “type A” personality and a need to be in control of well, EVERYTHING! So this idea of one word appealed to me. I could keep track of and control one word… one thing instead of the probably 6 or 7 things I feel like I could improve on this year. After hearing some of what others had done in the past and were considering for this year ONE thing kept coming to me… (ironically the thought that kept coming to me was not one word it was two…) so I went to the Thesaurus and found my one word.

Relinquish: a verb: to withdraw or retreat from: leave behind. Give up. To stop holding physically: release, to give over possession or control of: yield.

I relinquish the need to control everything.  I relinquish my fear. I relinquish my anger. I relinquish my children. I relinquish my husband. I relinquish everything to the One who is in control. I relinquish everything to the One who has set me free. Jesus, I release all these things to you for you to possess and for you to control. I relinquish it all to you.

“So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.” John 8:36

*Special thanks to my mom, Annette, for helping me get to this place and telling me about one word.