When my children were young, they loved brightly colored helium balloons.\u00c2\u00a0 But sometimes either accidentally or purposely, they’d let go of the string.\u00c2\u00a0 There they’d stand, with tears in their eyes, watching their precious balloon fly high into the heavens until it disappeared from sight.<\/p>\n
When that happened, I’d tell them a story.<\/p>\n
“Don’t cry,” I’d say.\u00c2\u00a0 “God’s up there.\u00c2\u00a0 And you know what?\u00c2\u00a0 He catches every balloon you let go of.\u00c2\u00a0 He’s keeping all of them just for you.\u00c2\u00a0 Someday, when you get to heaven, you’ll get every one back.”<\/p>\n
My children are older now; so am I.\u00c2\u00a0 But we still believe God’s saving our balloons for us.<\/p>\n
And I believe God catches all our balloons too — each one we let go of.\u00c2\u00a0 Only we don’t have to wait until we get to heaven to get them back.\u00c2\u00a0 The best and most perfect of our balloons, the ones just right for us, He gives back as soon as we’re ready to accept them.\u00c2\u00a0 Sometimes, He gives back better ones than we let go of.<\/p>\n
— Melody Beattie, Beyond Codependency, <\/em>p. 243<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When my children were young, they loved brightly colored helium balloons.\u00c2\u00a0 But sometimes either accidentally or purposely, they’d let go of the string.\u00c2\u00a0 There they’d stand, with tears in their eyes, watching their precious balloon fly high into the heavens until it disappeared from sight. When that happened, I’d tell them a story. “Don’t cry,” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,19,9,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-god","category-letting-go","category-life","category-trust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467","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=467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}