Let Go: To Get Peace and Real Joy
About this ebook
When life feels overwhelming, God’s peace is still within reach. In Let Go, the timeless wisdom of François Fénelon offers biblical encouragement for anyone struggling with anxiety, disappointment, family challenges, or the pressures of everyday life. Learn how surrendering your burdens to God can replace worry with lasting joy, hope, and peace.
Discover how to:
- Let go of worry, fear, and life’s daily pressures
- Trust God through family struggles, disappointments, and uncertainty
- Experience the joy and peace God promises His children
- Grow in faith through timeless Christian wisdom and biblical encouragement
- Find renewed hope by surrendering every area of your life to the Lord
Do you struggle through family problems, battle with the tensions of raising children, or find yourself overwhelmed with pressures on the job? Are personal failures and disappointments increasing as you face each day?
With amazing insight, Fénelon speaks firmly yet lovingly to those whose lives have been an uphill climb, revealing how to let go of life’s burdens and embrace the joy and peace that God has promised. His timeless counsel continues to encourage believers to trust God’s guidance, rest in His faithfulness, and experience the freedom that comes from surrendering every care to Him.
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About the author
Fénelon, descended from a long line of nobility, started his higher studies in 1672 at Saint Sulpice seminary in Paris. He was ordained a priest in 1676 and appointed director of Nouvelles Catholiques (“New Catholics”), a college for women who taught converts from French Protestantism. Fénelon, while never supportive of Protestantism, was nonetheless critical of harsh treatment toward Huguenots (French Protestants) and the many forced conversions that occurred under King Louis XIV. Fénelon instead held open meetings with Protestants to share the Catholic doctrine in a nonthreatening environment.
Fénelon’s first important work, Traité de l’éducation des filles (Treatise on the Education of Girls), was conservative overall but also suggested noncoercive concepts for educating females that were very innovative for his day. His second and best-known work, Les Aventures de Télémaque (The Adventures of Telemachus), outlined Fénelon’s political beliefs through the account of Telemachus’s search for Ulysses. It was written during Fénelon’s time as tutor to Louis, Duke de Bourgogne, the grandson and heir to Louis XIV.
