{"id":1336,"date":"2010-12-26T23:42:55","date_gmt":"2010-12-27T03:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=1336"},"modified":"2010-12-26T23:42:55","modified_gmt":"2010-12-27T03:42:55","slug":"when-the-time-comes-to-let-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=1336","title":{"rendered":"When the Time Comes to Let Go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although long-term relationships and secure employment and living in that house feels good, remember, that&#8217;s not where your security lies.  Let yourself bond.  Get close to that woman, or man.  Let yourself enjoy being friends with the best friend you&#8217;ve ever had.  Be a loving parent, 100 percent.  Throw yourself into that job with all your heart and soul.<\/p>\n<p>But your security and joy are not in that other person or job.  The magic is in you.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t get angry when the time comes in your life to let go.  Open your heart to that person, place, or thing, and say, &#8220;Thanks for teaching me to love and helping me to grow.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Then let him or her go, without resentment in your heart.  Because even though that time has come to an end, love can&#8217;t be lost.  Even it means an end to the best time you&#8217;ve had yet in your life, look around at where you are now.  Don&#8217;t forget to enjoy it, too.<\/p>\n<p>This will be the next best time you&#8217;ll have.<\/p>\n<p>Remember, love is a gift from God.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Melody Beattie, <em>More Language of Letting Go<\/em>, p. 405-406<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although long-term relationships and secure employment and living in that house feels good, remember, that&#8217;s not where your security lies. Let yourself bond. Get close to that woman, or man. Let yourself enjoy being friends with the best friend you&#8217;ve ever had. Be a loving parent, 100 percent. Throw yourself into that job with all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,19,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healing","category-letting-go","category-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}