Letting Go to Let It Flow: The Unexpected Path to Breakthrough
What if the breakthrough you’re waiting for isn’t on the other side of striving but on the other side of surrender?
That question hit me hard this morning as I listened to a message sent by my mentor, Pastor Shana Wise. It featured the late Dr. Myles Munroe, and two words kept echoing long after the audio ended:
Emotional Detachment. Alignment.
At first, those words clashed with everything I thought I knew about how I’m wired. I’m a feeler by nature. I experience deeply, respond quickly, and process later. Emotions are my compass or at least, they used to be.
But lately, something’s been shifting. I’ve been learning to pause, to create sacred space between what I feel and how I respond.
And here’s what I’m realizing:
In a world that glorifies hustle, glorifies pressure, glorifies urgency… emotional detachment isn’t indifference—it’s wisdom. It’s not the absence of passion. It’s the presence of maturity. It’s the ability to hold your desires in one hand and your identity in the other and to know they are not the same thing.
Because when we’re emotionally entangled with an outcome a job, a relationship, a calling we begin to cling. We grasp. We strive. We fear. And in that tension, we often block the very things we’re praying for.
There’s a difference between chasing and pursuing.
Chasing comes from fear, lack, and anxiety.
Pursuing flows from clarity, peace, and alignment.
One is exhausting. The other is liberating.
Here’s what I’ve been discovering on the other side of letting go:
Clarity - I’m no longer confusing my will with God’s.
Peace – I know now that what’s truly mine won’t require me to beg, force, or strive.
Flow – I’ve witnessed doors open simply because I stopped pushing them.
Faith – I believe again in the divine timing of God. Not late. Always perfect.
Alignment doesn’t mean inaction. It means intentionality. It’s not about doing nothing. It’s about doing the right things, with the right heart, at the right time.
So let me ask you what I’ve had to ask myself: What are you still gripping so tightly that it’s blocking what God is trying to release into your life?
Let go. Make room. Let it flow.
May you find the courage to release, the clarity to align, and the faith to trust in what is truly yours.
