I remember many stories when women from my own "big book" let their boys go.
Hannah let Samuel go. and he did great things.
Moses mother put him in a basket and let him go. he did great things.
Mary let Jesus go, and he died a brutal death.
if we take religion out of it, and look at it as a story:
sometimes letting go doesn't have positive outcomes. sometimes it does.
but these women were told to let go, they loved their boys but they trusted god with the lives of their boys.
if they had never let go, then these men would never ever have been able to do the things that they were supposed to do.
even for those of us who don't think these stories are true, I still think they are good examples. The moral of the stories and why I bring them up is NOT because of what the boys did once they were let go, but because of the faith of the women who were behind them turning the lives of them over to God.
Samuel could have been slain or chosen not to be obedient, Hannah let him go anyway.
Moses could have been drowned or eaten by a crocodile or murdered. His un - named mom let him go anyway.
Jesus was brutally executed ( and if one was to say he was just a human being and the rest fairy tale) then he died anyway... but Mary trusted god and let him go...
makes me think and wonder and ponder...
makes letting go seem like the right answer to me all the more...