God Wants You Truly Living, Not Walking Dead

Sometimes we hold onto things, things we can't imagine life without... things that are, nevertheless, killing us, stealing the life God wants us to have.  Letting go involves a dying process.  But the dying processes God uses are not those that leave us without life; instead, they lead us into a life we could never have imagined.  Today Cinthia not only discusses her 2011 book but tells the story of how it was written.  Writing on one continent as she prepared to speak on another, Cinthia started with the story of Lazarus and the verse, “Jesus wept,” and soon found herself writing and speaking about a struggle that stretches across culture, nationality, race and ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and so many other differences and barriers: human beings cling to what we think will give us life, while God knows those very things are killing us.  He invites us to go through His dying processes instead of trying to perfect ourselves, and in these processes He offers us life we could never have imagined while we were clinging to what we thought would help.  What is stealing the life He wants to give you?  What would it look like to let go?