Out with the Old - In with the New (For We Are the Only Solution)

When one season ends, another begins. It does not do to dwell on the past and forget to live. Sometimes letting go is best, no matter how much it hurts. Adios to the negative influences, to those who gain satisfaction from tearing you down, those who envy your joy and work tirelessly to see it fly away.

The more I could not let go of the past, the less I was able to grow. I have new priorities, new habits, new friends, and a new family. I am surrounded by people who love me and want to see me become the best I can be. People who do not value me for the life they can drain for their own pleasure, selfishness, or pride. People who can forgive past mistakes and see the changes that occur over time. Having problems in your life is not the problem. Failing to accept and address them is what causes you to become a problem for others.

The solution is so clear, and yet it remains the road less traveled: to accept the things we cannot change and take captive the few we can. Success comes when we learn to discern the difference between those two. Yet time and again, we chase the impossible, trying to change others, rewrite the past, or control outcomes that were never ours to command. We wear ourselves out grasping at smoke, failing to see that the real battle was never external. The solution was always staring back at us in the mirror.

Letting go is not weakness. It is wisdom. To release what poisons the soul is to create space for what heals it. We cling to people and places that no longer serve God’s purpose in our lives because we confuse comfort with love. But love refines, it does not imprison. Every ending is proof that something greater is being prepared, not that we have failed. The moment we stop fighting for what God is removing, we start receiving what He has been trying to give.

The solution to life’s problems is not found in systems, governments, or movements. It begins in the heart of each person who decides to live differently. The greatest revolution is personal, not political. The world does not change because laws shift. It changes because people do. We are quick to demand transformation from society while excusing ourselves from the same standard. But a healed heart heals its surroundings. Every act of honesty, forgiveness, or humility ripples outward further than we ever see. The command to love your neighbor is not optional. It is the framework of civilization itself.

When we stop waiting for others to do what is right and start becoming what is right, peace stops being a dream and becomes a discipline. We begin to understand that accountability is not condemnation but liberation. To own your faults is not to drown in them; it is to finally rise above them. The truth is, every human being already knows what must be done. The challenge is finding the courage to do it.

The old ways, resentment, pride, and fear, cannot come with us into what is next. A new life begins when we stop seeing change as punishment and start seeing it as mercy. God never subtracts without the intention to multiply. Every loss has the potential to refine our gratitude. Every delay prepares the ground for something that will actually last. The trials that stripped me of comfort also stripped me of illusion, and what remained was truth: love is stronger than loss, faith greater than fear, and grace deeper than regret.

Out with the old, in with the new. Because the new is not somewhere out there waiting to be found. It is being born within us every time we choose humility over pride, forgiveness over vengeance, and faith over despair. We are not spectators to change. We are the change. We are the solution.