Comments on: On Moving and Letting Go

By: ed

ed — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 23:01:24 +0000

Thanks Alanna. It was weird reading that post a few years later. God provided a buyer (only one!)for our house, and it sold with literally no time to spare before we would have gone broke. Julie is excelling in her program, and is at OSU now. We’ve found Christian friends. I’m slowly making money as a writer. Best yet, I’m currently writing a book that puts into words all of the hard lessons of discipleship I learned during that season of my life. I am very grateful for those dark moments, but they sure weren’t pleasant at the time!

I’ll be praying for you and your family at this time. Be blessed! May you hear God speak and may the love of Jesus be enough.

By: Alanna

Alanna — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 22:26:27 +0000

Ed, I was reading your post from today (12/8/11) and linked up somehow after a couple other of your posts to this one. I need to print this out and read it over and over and over again.

Maybe I should stop with that instead of explaining the how and why in writing and just actually do it. Read it, re-read it, and let God speak.

By: ed

ed — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 15:39:48 +0000

Thanks everyone for the comments. I’m finally getting to the internet after all of the moving. I appreciate the added insights and encouragement. This time in my life is a strange mix of peace and uncertainty that keeps looping back to faith.

I’ll be working on a few more posts in the coming week.

By: lauren martin gauthier

lauren martin gauthier — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:43:12 +0000

i’m praying for you guys in this time of transition, ed. i think it is *wonderful* that julie is going back to school to study something she loves. i think it is fantastic that you are writing for a living. and i really, deeply appreciate your words and insights in this latest post…

By: Adrienne

Adrienne — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 23:57:06 +0000

Great post, Ed. Seems like a lot of reading I’ve been doing lately is in the same vein. Loving God means loving him for who he is, not for what he provides. Because sometimes what he provides is loneliness and hardship. Who he is is refuge, patience, endurance, love.

Thank you also for loving your wife this way

By: Kristin T. (@kt_writes)

Kristin T. (@kt_writes) — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 15:29:44 +0000

Ed, I for one am VERY glad you took a few moments in your crazy-busy life to share what you’re learning through this experience. It really resonates with me.

Lessons in obedience are some of the most difficult for me to embrace. The next hardest challenge for me comes *after* I let go: I need to truly let go, and not try to guess or anticipate the details of what God is up to. Instead, I need to trust he is up to something, and then wait and see what it is. This is tough for me–I want to sleuth-out the details and get on board, but God wants me to learn to let go, and wait.

I love how you put this:

“Tonight I feel like loving Jesus “more than these” means staring into the black hole of our deepest, darkest fears, letting go of whatever we cling to for protection against those things we fear, and then throwing ourselves onto Jesus.”