Quick two true stories about letting go………from my own experience.

I picked up the bookmark from the dirty ground. It was almost under my feet. It looked almost like new and  I started to read. The whole of Psalm 23 was written on one side. Psalm 23:1-6. Twice on the same walk I tried to give the bookmark away. The first time it did not work. I was told that it was for me to keep……… ! The second time it was eagerly received by a man who really needed that message of Psalm 23 at that time.

Later at home I picked up a book I was reading and I found a different bookmark in the book.

I must have used a prayer-letter as bookmark and somebody wanted to read it! The prayer letter was removed and replaced with a proper bookmark on which was written…… the whole of Psalm 23. Psalm 23:1-6

I am using now the Psalm 23 bookmark!

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When we arrived from Thailand in New Zealand back in 1979 we came by plane of course , but some of our belongings came by boat. I had to pick up the drum at the harbour in Auckland.

There was a very good radio in the drum, but very old and FM did not work properly any more. I was asked to pay tax for the radio – but I refused. If I remember correctly it was $40.00.

We were standing there near the water and I said something like this to the man in charge and laughing,  “You can take the radio home as a present from me or throw it in the water here – but I don’t pay one cent of tax for the receiver.” When I said that the Nordmende receiver did not end up in the water………..but was handed over to me!

The message is: LET GO!