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The Value of Giving Up

They said You can fix anything with enough faith and declarations, With enough hard work and perseverance and grit and determination If you give it enough time and do everything just right Then everything will turn out fine, what you want will be in sight But believing this to be true can be detrimental to you As you pour your being out upon a dusty, thankless ground And wish for things not known, but which in your mind has grown Through ideals and partial vision, in understanding’s schism Sometimes it’s better to let things be, trust the perfection you cannot see, To embrace the holy fact that sometimes you simply can’t, When you’ve come to the end of your rope, sometimes it’s healthy to let go And using wisdom and discernment, learn to see the Word that’s Perfect There’s value in perseverance, but not in legalistic adherence To staying strong and fighting through, even though it’s killing you And if in the end you do not hold in your hand the pro