Surrender to God is not giving up on faith and pleading God to fix our brokenness and restore our faith as well; it's our willingness to identify the lies we tell ourselves and which gets comfortable in the patterns that we follow as routines which needs to be released in true faith in God. It's the discernment that we choose to bring upon ourselves to exercise self discipline and being true to ourselves that makes holding onto surrender a goal and a way of life as well. We cannot minimize our mistakes in order to justify our goal of surrender but self calibrate the efficiency and honesty with which we own our mistakes and take responsibility for it. In that sense surrender is an all encompassing space for feeling true love for God while putting aside the individual ego and just being present to the moment.
The narrative that becomes our life, our routine, way of perceiving people, challenges, and our relationship to our given lives is how we understand our life experiences day after day - it's almost as if a day that goes well needs to be in accordance with our plans or situations that are in accordance to our accepting and problem solving abilities, or otherwise the narrative of being just ourselves in this highly overwhelming world where everything happens to us and our getting caught in a vicious cycle of a life out of control seems to stay stuck in our minds.
Whether we accept our lives for what it is or just quantify the dark phases, disappointments, sadness and lack within us, time does move on. Our firm holding onto these phases does not fix anything. Therefore to believe in keeping faith that surrender to God opens us with so many possibilities of experiencing life and to trust in God's(The creator of life) will that things work for our best is an act of letting go our attachment to expectations that life should work out in this way or that. And surrender familiarizes us with this time and again.
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