There’s no faking surrender

I have to admit I am so enjoying hanging out with Margaret’s beautiful doorway  it’s been difficult to move across the threshold to explore what’s next in this blogesphere.

So it’s perfect that I’ve been contemplating surrender or release the last couple of days.   Some people may believe that surrender is giving up.  I don’t.  For me, surrender is letting go to a source bigger than myself whether it’s called Spirit, Mystery, God, Goddess, Universe, Creator or whatever has meaning.  

How to surrender is an individual and mysterious process.  Sometimes it can happen in an instant, sometimes it becomes a practice unto itself.  But I have learned one thing:  there is no faking surrender.   If I have an intention to shift my relationship with something or someone and I truly don’t release it, situations stay stuck.

Most times I can only recognize a successful surrender in hindsight after change happens. 

For example, this weekend I decided that I was going to release every recent idea I’ve had about re-visioning my work life except writing.  I imagined all my visions unhooking from my body and floating up to the sky.  I felt a sense of freedom and space.

Over the next few days, several ideas began to land back at my feet in the form of inquires.  Since I am a strong follower of synchronicity I am now watching daily life to see what’s next. 

Perhaps that’s the lesson.  Surrender isn’t about giving up, it’s an opportunity to begin a different kind of conversation with creation, one where “I want” doesn’t run the show so that trust can lead the way.

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