by Tina Erwin
Recently a friend of
mine was talking about her fears and how hard it is to face these fears. She
told me that she read somewhere that truly spiritual people simply surrender to
spirit.
I asked her what
that meant. When you surrender to spirit what are you really doing, what does
this mean for you in your heart of hearts?
“Surrender,” she
said, “means that you release, you let go and you let God come into your heart.
What does the word mean to you?”
“When I think of
surrender, it has a whole different meaning. I suggest that we look it up. To
surrender means that you give in, you give up or admit defeat. It can mean that
you submit or stop fighting. It can also mean that you capitulate, as a
defeated person. To me, surrender means just that: you lost, you were defeated,
all of your power is gone.”
She told me that she
didn’t look at it that way, that she was now really confused. So I asked her if
she had been fighting God. What had she been resisting that involved God?
At this point, she
was totally bewildered. I wasn’t trying to be argumentative, only working to
have her see that the point of her statement was in and of itself a
contradiction. If you love God, then you are filled with the love, the power
and the protection of God. You are power ‘full’, not power ‘less’. In
metaphysics, words carry tremendous meaning. If you love God, there is nothing
to surrender because you do not give up, you embrace, you stand up to the
challenge of the spiritual path. You find your courage. What courage is there
in surrender, in admitting defeat?
All of us at some
time or other are filled with some combination fear, doubt, confusion and
hopelessness. Surrendering to these feelings is not beneficial and means that
you just let them wash over you because you ‘lay down your arms’, you submitted
to the darkness. Standing up to fear, clearing doubt and confusion and finding
hope in the future directly relates to finding your source of spiritual power.
Spiritual power is
the direct connection we have the potential to find. Our spiritual path is
defined by our search for this connection. Everyone is on a spiritual path to
the light whether or not they think they are. Every single day we live is a
step either closer or farther from achieving that sense of the divine
connection that defines that path.
Every interaction we
have with another person is an opportunity to have it be beneficial or
detrimental. Never surrender to anything. Always, find a way to embrace your
own light and the light of others. This will save you. This will help you to
heal. This is light work in action. Those who choose to do this work do not
wave the white flag of surrender but rather rally those around them with the
bright hope of a better day.
Strike the concept
of surrender out of your spiritual dictionary. Replace it with the concept of
courage, hope and dedication to the spiritual path that takes us all home to
God. The divine loves us all. We are all part of the whole and no one can take
that from us.
Perhaps one of the
most precious lessons to take from this concept of erasing the word surrender
from your spiritual vocabulary is that words
matter. What you say to yourself, about yourself makes a tremendous difference.
Let those personal words be terms of greatness not capitulation or submission.
The brightness of your own light depends on it.
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