A major stumbling block to spiritual growth is our inability (or refusal) to understand the difference between resignation and acceptance. We can even have an enlightening experience that shows us the difference and still falter and fight it at some point later.
Resignation is our belief that we cannot help but do that which we are doing even though we do not want to do it. Ergo...we keep doing it. Against our own good sense. Actually having a sense of self-justification for, after all, we "can't help it." So we continue doing the same-old-same-old...sometimes unto death.
Acceptance is our belief that we cannot help but do that which we are doing even though we do not want to do it. We keep doing it up to that point divine: We crash and burn. With a plea within for help to anybody, anything, anywhere, God or the devil on horseback, makes no never mind, please, please, please, please, please. We've got to stop, and we cannot.
It is that hopeless, helpless realization that we need help that slams the door on our self-determined resignation and opens the door to the hidey hole of God. That is when we turn over our own self, guts and glory, without reservation as to who gets us. Whoever takes us up and relieves us of the unendurable pain of being is welcome to us. And that is surrender.
Paradox Alert: We pretty it up later and call it acceptance because surrender sounds like we lost and acceptance sounds like we won. Both are true. Proving the truth of when both sides come out the winner, you know God's hand was in it.
The surprise is the realization that our surrender amounted to a simple exchange...our will for God's will.
The stunner is how many times during the day that we are faced with the same decision...to resist or to accept...and how often we still choose to resist.
We have ceased fighting anything and anybody. -- Anonymous
Thank you.
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