A wow thought: Surrender

Hey ya'll. I get these amazingly inspiring words once a week.. and I wanted to share this one with you. I hope you get from it what I hope I got. Dont' forget to read my High/Low from 5.29.05. Life is not exactly what you might wish. It is often more glorious than that. It is often more challenging than that. But it is not a duplication of your mental images. It is what it is. Accept it. Surrender to it.

This moment is as it is. In this moment, you may set forces into play which will affect the next moment, but you cannot change what is right now. In this moment, life has brought you what it has brought. And you must accept things as they are right now in order to have an effect on how they will be tomorrow.

Do not fight life. Instead, learn to know the flows and currents and use them to your advantage.

Think of yourself as floating on a great river. The river flows and you are afloat upon it. You may dip your hand down as a tiller and influence the direction you are heading. You may, in moments of great focus and determination, begin swimming vigorously across the river and influence which fork of the river you will take, perhaps avoiding some rapids which you can dimly hear over the river’s roar.

But the current of life and time is stronger than you are, and you cannot swim against it, trying to stay in one place or trying to go backwards to where you were or wished to be. If you spend your life doing this, you will only exhaust yourself to no avail. And you will miss the opportunity to position yourself in the river for the next things which are moving toward you.

If you spend too much time facing backwards, fighting to regain what you believe you have lost, you may be caught completely off guard by the rapids and the waterfall which are lying ahead in the quickly-moving river of life.

Surrender. Do what you can, take strokes across and down the river when you care to and when you have the strength and agility, but do not fight your life.

Right now, this is. Next moment, that will be. But within each moment, accept what is and then influence what will be.

And when you are caught in the rapids, when you are in the middle of the raging river, surrender to the current. Feel it. Know it. Go deep and feel and know the river. Surrender to the connection, the flow, to your intuitive sense which will guide you along, through the rocks, down the waterfall, on to the place of safety which lies ahead after the rapids have dissipated their force. Trust yourself to get through it. Trust the help which is around you, the angels which are there whispering to you, helping to guide you through.

And then, when you have made it through and are again floating along for a nice calm stretch of river, surrender to the beauty and wonder of life. Congratulate yourself for having met the challenges, drift lazily for a while, then look around, see what is happening and move again into alert awareness and oneness with what is.

Do not waste your energies on wishing things were different. Do not dissipate your energies in an attempt to fight against what is. The river is. Life is. It flows and changes and you flow and change with it.

The more you learn about its flow, the more you learn to become one with it, feeling its rhythms, connecting with its flows, the more peace will come your way. And you will find that you can even find peace within the rapids, you can even find peace when the storm rages and the lightning sings out across the skies. Even the pelting rain will fill you with peace because you will understand its connection to the river, how the rain and the storm , the peace and the rapids, the flowing and storming and being are all one, are all a part of who you are and what is, what simply is in the glorious adventure of life.

Surrender. Let it be. In this moment, go deeply into what is. Find within it the love and the peace which are yours. Pull them out and mix them with that deep joy which flows down to you from your own higher self. No matter what is happening, no matter what the circumstances of your life, you can find peace, deep inside, a peace which is the flowing love of the river, the flowing peace of the river, the connection and oneness which is you.

For you are the river and the river is love. You are one with all that is, as it flows and becomes. You are. Accept this with love. You are, and you are one with all else that is. Be one in the flow. Surrender to the flow. Know it as you, and know it as love.

Let it be. Let it be in peace. Let it be in love.