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Tuesday, June 17, 2014
You are reading from the book The Language of Letting Go
Surrender
Master the lessons of your present circumstances.
We do not move forward by resisting what is undesirable in our life today. We move forward, we grow, we change by acceptance.
Avoidance is not the key; surrender opens the door.
Listen to this truth: We are each in our present circumstances for a reason. There is a lesson, a valuable lesson that must be learned before we can move forward.
Something important is being worked out in us, and in those around us. We may not be able to identify it today; but we can know that it is important. We can know it is good.
Overcome not by force, overcome by surrender. The battle is fought, and won, inside ourselves. We must go through it until we learn, until we accept, until we become grateful, until we are set free.
Today, I will be open to the lessons of my present circumstances. I do not have to label, know, or understand what I'm learning; I will see clearly in time. For today, trust and gratitude are sufficient.
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Had a lot of issues with the word surrender, it make me think of giving up and that I was wrong and not worth living.
As it says in recovery literature, "Surrender to win." Surrender isn't to give up, it means giving up to our Higher Power, the God of our own understanding. When I surrender, I am empowered to do what I need to do to live today, clean and sober. I need to surrender my life daily to my God, and ask for His Good Orderly Direction.
As I open myself to healing, open my mind to new ways of living and thinking (it was my thoughts that were my dis-ease), so I can be open to changing what was, to what it can be in today.
When I put my life into the Care of my God, in Step Three, often as simple as saying the Serenity Prayer, my God goes through the day with me. He does not grab me by the scruff of the neck and say, ¨Do not go there!¨ He gives me the thoughts, strength, courage, awareness, and works through others, people, places and things.
As my sponsor said, ¨You can learn two things in recovery, how to work your program and how not to work your program.¨ There is no race to be won, no time limit, all we have is today.