Paradox - the more you fight your nemesis, the more you lose your battle with your nemesis; the less you fight your nemesis, the more you lose your battle with your nemesis.
We are each given one road to walk in life. When life in the form of suffering brings us to the proverbial fork in that road, we get the great choice: Resign our self to that which we cannot fight anymore or surrender to that which we cannot fight anymore.
Hard lesson learning: We must fight in order to lose. How else do we reach surrender? To not fight is to have no choice but resignation.
Surrender, crash-and-burn surrender, births acceptance...painful but pure. Acceptance is powered by grace and by God and rewards us with a grateful life...even in the berm-of-the-road days when our powerlessness again proves our friend and sunshine does prevail.
However, the word surrender does not have the best rep...who's kidding whom? It means you lose. Resisting losing, we are drawn to resignation. Ah, but there is no God in resignation, only self-will which despairingly declares that we have no choice but to keep doing the same-old-same-old, and so we do...and live self-driven lives, sometimes happy, oftimes depressed, always in conflict within our self.
Surrender...losing...holds the Holy Grail, acceptance, the place where with love God takes the battle away from us infusing us with love and a need to share it. No longer do we fight our nemesis, no longer do we fear our nemesis, we are centered in the flow of love of God and others.
Thank you.
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