In the back of my pantry is a little metal box sitting on the floor. There is nothing that would draw your attention to it yet it is special in its own way.

Many years ago a mentor I had knew I was struggling with a few things that I was unable or unwilling to let go. These things occupied a great deal of my thoughts and energy and were becoming a real distraction to me. She felt that I needed to do some sort of action that would allow me to release these things, so she told me to find a small box and when I did she gave me a few instructions.

First I was to designate this as a place that was for one purpose. I was not to use it for other things or purposes. Secondly I was told that when there was something I couldn't handle, couldn't think away, or had no power over or ability to let go , I was to write down what it was on a small slip of paper, place it into the box, and say a prayer that I be released from it.

Then she said I was not allowed to think about that topic/situation/person , meddle with it, or otherwise take it back unless I actually went to the box, and physically got it out. but that if I did that action, I was fully away it was because I was choosing to do that, no one was making me take it back on.

The amazing  and funny thing that I have found over the 15+ years that I have had that "God Box"  is that Some of those things on the slips of paper in there were so painful , so huge at the time, but today, I can scarcely remember what they were. I had contemplated sometimes, that when I got home I would get one or two of them out, but never did. Most of the time I even forget it is there at all until I need it.