If you follow me on twitter (@beatccr for those who don’t), then this post is going to be basically a repeat of things you’ve already seen from my twitter feed.

For the past few months, I’ve been following @thesinglewoman on twitter. Mandy Hale, also know as The Single Woman, is a blogger and author of the book The Single Woman: Life, Love & a Dash of Sass. I’ve really enjoyed her book as it’s been really helpful and inspiring to me over the past few months. She also tweets A LOT of inspiring thoughts, quotes, and excerpts from her book. And I feel like there have been times when the perfect tweet from just jumps out at me. Apparently it’s happened MANY times.

Here’s a list of all the tweets of hers that I’ve retweeted over the past few months. No, I don’t retweet everything. These are just ones that stood out to me, that came at times when I knew I needed to see/hear them.

• It hurts to let go. It hurts more to hold onto someone who doesn’t want to be there.
• Sometimes all you can do is let go, trusting that if it’s meant to be…it’ll stick around.
• If you take a chance, good things might happen or bad things might happen. But if you don’t take a chance, nothing happens.
• I’d rather respect you for hurting me with honesty than resent you for “protecting me” with a lie.
• The moment will come when you know exactly why things happened as they did.  It may take some time but it will come.
• You can’t force something to happen. All you can do is surrender and trust that what is meant to be will find a way.
• When you stop trying to MAKE things happen on your timetable and surrender, you invite God to show up and work miracles.
• Prayer:  God I trust you to give me what YOU want, when you want according to YOUR plan not mine.
• The things you don’t stress tend to turn out best. Trust and let go.
• Sometimes all you can do is let go and let God figure it out for you.
• Prayer:  God I trust in your plan and I know that everything I don’t understand now will make perfect sense later.
• You will get to where you need to be in your own time. Until then breathe and be patient with yourself and your process.
• “It will all work out in the end. Have faith in your self and leave the rest to God.” – Leon Brown
• There is no one and no force strong enough to close a door that God intends for you to walk through.
• It’s better to try and be disappointed than to not try and always wonder.
• Prayer:  God help me to let go of my need to know what’s going to happen next and to Just. Trust. You.
• You may not see it or understand it now, but everything in your life is unfolding as it should. Trust the process.
• Prayer:  Thank you God that things happen when they’re meant to happen, not in my time but at the PERFECT time.
• When you try to control everything, you enjoy nothing. Relax. Breathe. Trust. Let go.
• Strength is choosing to get up and get on with it even if you never understand why something happened the way it did.
• Prayer:  God, thank you that I don’t have to stress, rush or force.  What you have for me always arrives right on time.
• Letting go doesn’t mean you stop caring. It means you stop trying to force others to.
• Be patient. With time, everything becomes clear.
• We’re not meant to see the picture all at once. God hands us each piece of the puzzle as we’re ready for it.
• Prayer: God thank you that even when things happen that don’t make sense, I can always trust in your plan.
• Some things aren’t to be understood. Sometimes you just have to let go and move on, trusting that clarity will come later.
• If everything you pray for came to you right now, you wouldn’t be able to handle it. Trust in God’s perfect timing.
• “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.” – Douglas Adams
• When you learn to surrender and let go rather than cling and control, everything falls into place as it should.
• Prayer:  God, I surrender to your plan, whether it lines up with your completely deviates from my own.
• If you stopped calling, inviting, doing all the work, would they still be in your life? If the answer is no, let them go.
• When you step back and look at the big picture, you will see that things happened exactly the way they needed to. TRUST.
• Sometimes all you can do is sit in the sweet surrender of not knowing how it’s going to turn out, but choosing to be happy anyways.
• When you stop banging on the closed doors, you give God room to open up the ones you’re meant to walk through.
• When you let go of what you think is “supposed” to happen you’re free to enjoy whatever DOES happen.
• Prayer:  God, thank you for bringing me things when I’m ready for them and not one moment sooner.
• Love can’t be forced Sometimes all you can do is take a step back and let them figure out how they feel.
• When you accept the things you cannot change, anxiety, worry, and stress disappear.
• A good way to know who’s really meant to be in your life? Let go and let God decide who stays and who goes.
• When it seems as nothing is happening, you are in a season of preparation for everything that’s coming next.
• Never lose hope. Even the most ordinary moment can set the stage for the most extraordinary miracle.
• You can let go without fear. The only things and people you will lose are the ones that aren’t meant to be there.
• Faith says that even though you can’t see that breakthrough, that answer, that blessing…it’s on it’s way.
• It’s often in the moment when you finally surrender and admit that you don’t know what to do that God shows you what to do.
• Just because it’s not happening the way you thought doesn’t mean it’s not going to happen. God loves to do the unexpected.
• Don’t get discouraged if it seems nothing’s happening. A season of waiting and preparation always precedes the breakthrough.

Again I swear I didn’t retweet everything. These all just happen to be exactly what I needed to hear and read. Though it’s quite scary how much they fit what’s going on in my life. It’s given me a lot to think and pray about as I struggle with and try to understand things that are going on in my life. Maybe one day, I’ll be able to share my stories like this to other folks like she does. But until then, I’ll keep being encouraged and inspired.