Tough Love and Surrender
Some element of trust is required to surrender to something that may be amazingly good for you, but that you may be afraid of for various reasons – including fear that you may not be up to it. But, most likely, you are up to it or the invitation to surrender would not be in your life.
After yesterday’s Study Hall, longtime great friend, Sir Erik Hill, sent the following poem by Guillaume Apollinaire:
COME TO THE EDGE
Come to the edge, he said.
They said: We are afraid.
Come to the edge, he said.
They came.
He pushed them and they flew.
Being pushed by someone whom you trust can help you surrender. Pushing can feel difficult like the tough love that it is, but it results in flying and in even greater degrees of forward and upward movement.
If someone has pushed you to surrender recently, consider that that person may be lovingly urging you to evolve and grow.
How do you best respond? With silence or with the strength to fly? Will your ego surrender?
Copyright 2009. E. B Hutt Bush and Coaching for Results, Inc.