When Is Surrender Sweet?
Surrender can mean defeat . . . or surrender can mean transcendence.
If it’s defeat, we are called upon to be strong, learn from what happened, and move beyond what we were fighting against. We can learn to be resilient.
However, surrender can be useful if thought about in the context of giving in to something ultimately larger than ourselves and yielding to it for our own growth and evolution.
Writer Sara Paddison, “When we know love matters more than anything, and we know that nothing else REALLY matters, we move into the state of surrender. Surrender does not diminish our power; it enhances it.”
Can you think of a place where “Sweet Surrender” has significantly enhanced your power? Are there any areas of your life where yielding to love or some other great force would actually make you far more powerful as a human being? Has your not surrendering actually diminished you in the past? What are the ultimate consequences of your not surrendering?
Copyright 2009. E. B. Hutt Bush and Coaching for Results, Inc.
Hutt, GREAT TOPIC and I love the morning Study Hall!
You asked the question about when was there a time when we surrendered to something, the “sweet surrender” that enhanced our power. Been thinking on that today…
What I recognize for myself is when I am faced with a difficult situation or am resistant to something or someone and I “surrender” to it, I find it ends up giving me a sense of relief most of the time – that letting go. Acceptance of the situation and what is.
Most often then not, it is after the surrendering that the blessing or lesson of the situation presents itself.