SURRENDER
Get out the check list: You had the trip planned and the holiday booked; the job promotion was within your grasp and your finances secure; you finally got your parents settled in their retirement home for senior living; the kids were off to college or university or had been launched from home; life was falling into place and there weren’t too many worries about tomorrow. Then out of nowhere - a world pandemic that stopped humanity in its tracks and continues to veer people off life’s course - happened. It sounds like a scene from a dystopian novel - no, it’s reality these days.
Business are closing; people are filing for bankruptcy; airports and resorts are virtually empty; senior homes exclude visitors; school is on-line and life if full of stress for many as families try to cope or fall apart. Just watch the news for distressing situations. This is reality these days. How do we cope?
Breath - take a deep breath of acceptance, that surrendering sigh of the soul telling yourself that everything is going to be alright. The future is going to happen regardless of $50 or $50 million in our bank accounts; the earth is still revolving around the sun for yet another day of glorious sunrises and sunsets. The waves still crash against the sandy shores of the oceans and learning and experiences will still happen in our lives. Babies will be born with a future of possibilities and friends and family members will bid goodbye to this world when their time has come.
Why do we think we can continue to haul around the burdens of care on our weary shoulders, worrying about what’s next and fretting our hours away? We can soften our souls by living for today - in the present moments - accepting the parts of our lives as they exist for these moments in this time. Easy? Never Possible? Yes! Resist change? Accept and surrender. It doesn’t mean we have to stop living, thinking or planning. We just need to ask the Creator of the Universe for the strength, power and mind-set to get through the daily struggles or troubles and trust that in Him, everything is gonna be okay.
Matthew 6: 25, 34
25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?
34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.