Searches to cease or grips to release...

Honestly, it isn't the first time it happened.  It probably won't be the last. 

It's no secret that I wear contacts and/or multiple pairs of glasses.  Since my prescription is complicated, I wear glasses for different purposes. One pair is for reading.  Another is for distance.  There is also a pair of prescription sunglasses.  Occasionally, one pair will be misplaced. 

Usually I retrace my steps and find the missing pair in a previously used purse...on the kitchen island...or on the nightstand.  This time was different.  I searched each room with no success.  Days passed with no discovery.  They were gone.  Maybe they fell into a wastebasket or outside the car.  Whatever happened, my search ended.  Thankfully, I have a backup pair I began using.  Days later, someone randomly found the lost pair under furniture!  Perhaps while wearing them on top of my head, they fell off and landed where we would not look.  I was relieved, puzzled yet thrilled.  I had made the comment that they may show up when we least expected it.  They did.

Sometimes life holds similar searches.  We look everywhere for something, someone, a reason or an answer...but never find it.  Or maybe, when we reflect years later, we discover a lesson learned.  More often than not, I don't always find a definite solution.  That is, of course, totally against my inquisitive and analytical nature. 

Yet there is a time to search...and a time to realize our searches must end.  We may even hold onto something in our lives that we need to release...but find it extremely difficult.  Searches are often necessary...but not always satisfactory.  Grasping something that holds us in bondage is common...but not beneficial.  There are times to search or cease.   There are times to hold onto or release. When we focus on the One Who loves us, holds us, heals us and has a purpose for us...we learn to lean on Him above all else. I am deeply thankful that He is with us and He will never let go.♥~thl

..."a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away,"...  Ecclesiastes 3: 6