Just Let it Go!

     Yesterday, I read that former Chicago Bears defensive tackle Dan Hampton refused an invitation by President Obama to join his former teammates for a visit to the White House.  The Bears were the 1985 Superbowl champions and had been scheduled to meet with President Reagan in January of 1986, but the Challenger disaster forced the White House to cancel the planned meeting.

     Hampton gave three reasons for refusing...  I want to focus on the last one.

Reason 3:  "It was 25 years ago. Let it go."  
     
    I tend to agree with him.  This would have been exciting when it was supposed to happen but now, 25 years later, it seems a little anti-climatic. It sounds like he let it go a long time ago.  

     So let me ask you a question:  "What are you still holding on to from your past that you would be better off to "just let it go?"  

• Anger?
• Bitterness?
• That pair of lucky socks (that you never washed) from your brief time on the basketball team? 

     Ephesians 4:31 (KJV) says this: ^"Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:"
 
     All of these are bad things to keep holding on to.  And except for the socks, can sometimes keep you from getting on with your life. 

      But you need to replace it with something.  I heard that Dan Hampton has opted to go to Disney World* instead.  Now that is a great substitution.  The Apostle Paul goes on to say this (verse 32) And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you."


     Listen, life is too short to be holding grudges.  There are too many other things to think about to keep harboring on the past.  Just Let It Go! (And if you can afford it Go to Disney World*!)  

*Disclaimer:  Disney did not pay me to say that.  But if they want to I can give an address where they can mail the check.