Letting go of someone you love and putting them into the hands of God can be one of the hardest things you'll ever do. Recently, I read this poem:

As children bring their broken toys with tears for us to mend,

I brought my broken dreams to God because He is my Friend.

But then instead of leaving Him in peace to work alone,

I hung around and tried to help in ways that were my own.

At last I snatched them back and cried, "How can You be so slow?"

"My child," he said, "What could I do . . . you never did let go".

To let go of someone doesn't mean you stop caring, it just means you can't do it for them. It means you stop rescuing them and allow the consequences to correct them to make them whole. It means you choose neither to fix them nor judge them; just to pray for them and believe God to accomplish what you can't do.

Letting go means facing your own selfishness and the need to adjust everything to your desires, then saying instead, "Not My will, but Thine, be done." (Lk 22:42)

It removes others as either the cause of your pain or the source of your joy, then places your focus back where it should be - on God.

It's deciding to fear less and love more.

In other words, letting go is - letting God do it His way.