Queen Elsa Said Let It Go!!

Hi family!

I’ve been M.I.A. lately, I know. I was doing what I do best. Spend time with my family. There is something about when you take time to buckle down and readjust your focus when you feel like your world is spinning all around that helps you answer questions. Whether you are extra spiritual about everything, or if you just need to find the logic in something, readjusting your focus helps.

The moment I realized that I was having a question answered was with my baby girl. Her innocence mixed with my love for Disney movies speaks volumes in my heart. Yes, my heart, the place where love, hope and faith live. I realized that any time that my heart was broken it always showed because one, if not all, of those topics were severely affected.

She has suddenly come off of her Disney Jr shows for a minute. But she was suddenly a Frozen girl. Queen Elsa and Princess Anna were it all of a sudden. Me, being the mom and woman that I am, can EASILY watch this movie a few times with her. She just like lots of other little girls in the world fell in love with the song Let It Go. And of course, the song had to be played at different times of the day on any available phone or computer. Many times it was my phone. But one day (after she had me playing it as she brushed her teeth before school) it clicked with me and I ended up playing the song over and over all day at work. It was a song that told a story so familiar to me. Here are verse 1 lyrics:

The snow glows white on the mountain tonight. Not a footprint to be seen. A kingdom of isolation and it looks like I'm the Queen. The wind is howling like this swirling storm inside. Couldn't keep it in; Heaven knows I've tried. Don't let them in, don't let them see. Be the good girl you always have to be. Conceal, don't feel, don't let them know… Well now they know.

That was basically the setting of what was really going on here. Anyone can relate to this. Whether if it was just a situation you were trying to hide or a lifestyle you didn’t realize you were maintaining and it’s not really you. To be completely transparent, for me it was a personality I was not being 2 separete people. But I had somehow managed to suppress my true self. I had spent many years of my life being a people pleaser and truly had not realized that I’d lost who I was in the process. Llttle by little, very real desires of who I truly am began to slowly rise until it was enough of those little things coming up, to bring up the need to have a serious conversation.

But, whatever the front was that you were trying to maintain has now been exposed and your world is caving in or spiraling out of control. You suddenly find yourself alone confused trying to figure out what to do. Some of your friends may have turned away or maybe you turned away from them. Maybe it seems like no one can help you so you pull away. Or maybe you are like Queen Elsa and in order to protect the ones you love most, you run away, even from them. But I agree with Elsa in the chorus of the song…

Let it go, let it go. Can't hold it back anymore. Let it go, let it go. Turn away and slam the door. I don't care what they're going to say. Let the storm rage on. The cold never bothered me anyway.

When your situation or your lifestyle has been exposed, what can you really do? You can only let it go. The mistakes you made you now know not to repeat. The confusing feels need to be cleared. And you need to find out how and where you are finally Free. Truth be told, when you have a secret life, or personality or if you find yourself realizing that who you thought you were is not really you, you realize that you were truly bound in that thing. You really realize that you were never free. You were trapped in the confines of your mind and the expectations of being the person you presented yourself as. You were a slave, and if I assume correctly, most of us were unhappy slaves in whatever area we were trapped in.

Now, the next verse of the song is truly steps you must take when you have detached yourself or have been isolated from those you love. Take a look around and assess your place, your situation. See how catastrophic the disaster truly was, and finds the good in it. It’s time to get real with you and be sure that you are who you now say you are. It’s time to truly see if what you think to be real is real. And for spiritual people, that is the time that you take to ask God to prove Himself strong in your life. Here is the next verse:

It's funny how some distance, Makes everything seem small. And the fears that once controlled me can't get to me at all. It's time to see what I can do to test the limits and break through. No right, no wrong, no rules for me, I'm free!

The rest of the song is icing on the catastrophe cake for me. We just have to realize that sometimes the exposure, the catastrophe, the moment when you were stripped naked before God and anyone else, can be a freeing moment. A chance to allow things to shatter, so when you are putting the pieces back together you can do it with a new fresh and honest perspective. The way that allows you to be free in your heart. You MUST be free in your heart in order to live the life God wants for you anyways. Anytime you are bound in any capacity, you cannot do what God needs you to do in life. Whether you realize that it was Gods will that you were acting in, or your own. You must be free.

I pray that you all take a moment in your day to look at yourselves and see if there is any part of you that may be bound. When you find it, look for what is attached to that thing and I’m sure you will find a trail to what may need some attention in your life. You never know, maybe those Disney movies speak to you for more than just simple entertainment, like they do me.

I love you all!!! Be Blessed!!!