Language of Letting Go -Mar. 8 - Surrender
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Language of Letting Go -Mar. 8 - Surrender
You are reading from the book The Language of Letting Go
Surrender
Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God, as we understood Him.
—Step Three of Al-Anon
Surrendering to a Power greater than ourselves is how we become empowered.
We become empowered in a new, better, more effective way than we believed possible.
Doors open. Windows open. Possibilities occur. Our energy becomes channeled, at last, in areas and ways that work for us. We become in tune with the Plan for our life and our place in the Universe.
And there is a Plan and Place for us. We shall see that. We shall know that. The Universe will open up and make a special place for us, with all that we need provided.
It will be good. Understand that it is good, now.
Learning to own our power will come, if we are open to it. We do not need to stop at powerlessness and helplessness. That is a temporary place where we re-evaluate where we have been trying to have power when we have none.
Once we surrender, it is time to become empowered.
Let the power come, naturally. It is there. It is ours.
Today, I will be open to understanding what it means to own my power. I will accept powerlessness where I have no power; I will also accept the power that is mine to receive.
From The Language of Letting Go by Melody Beattie ©1990, Hazelden Foundation.
Surrender
Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God, as we understood Him.
—Step Three of Al-Anon
Surrendering to a Power greater than ourselves is how we become empowered.
We become empowered in a new, better, more effective way than we believed possible.
Doors open. Windows open. Possibilities occur. Our energy becomes channeled, at last, in areas and ways that work for us. We become in tune with the Plan for our life and our place in the Universe.
And there is a Plan and Place for us. We shall see that. We shall know that. The Universe will open up and make a special place for us, with all that we need provided.
It will be good. Understand that it is good, now.
Learning to own our power will come, if we are open to it. We do not need to stop at powerlessness and helplessness. That is a temporary place where we re-evaluate where we have been trying to have power when we have none.
Once we surrender, it is time to become empowered.
Let the power come, naturally. It is there. It is ours.
Today, I will be open to understanding what it means to own my power. I will accept powerlessness where I have no power; I will also accept the power that is mine to receive.
From The Language of Letting Go by Melody Beattie ©1990, Hazelden Foundation.
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I remember the exact moment I "surrendered".
I had driven to another city an hour away to rescue my son (who didn't want to be rescued) from a crack house. It was total insanity on my part, as I threatened to kick down the door if they didn't sent my son out. He came out. When I left he returned.
On my drive home I was crying and pulled off the highway and I told God that I could not do one more day like that...and it was then I surrendered and turned my care and that of my son over to my Higher Power who I choose to call God.
Almost immediately, I felt a load lifted and I knew that I had just turned a corner in my recovery that would take me to a better place. I knew then that I would never go to another crack house, but instead I would go to meetings that helped me regain my sanity and reclaim my life.
Surrender, for me, was giving up that which was not mine to control...other people.
It was only when I surrendered, that I won the war I had fought for so long. My fear turned to faith, my anger to compassion, and my sadness to hope for a brighter future.
Hugs
I had driven to another city an hour away to rescue my son (who didn't want to be rescued) from a crack house. It was total insanity on my part, as I threatened to kick down the door if they didn't sent my son out. He came out. When I left he returned.
On my drive home I was crying and pulled off the highway and I told God that I could not do one more day like that...and it was then I surrendered and turned my care and that of my son over to my Higher Power who I choose to call God.
Almost immediately, I felt a load lifted and I knew that I had just turned a corner in my recovery that would take me to a better place. I knew then that I would never go to another crack house, but instead I would go to meetings that helped me regain my sanity and reclaim my life.
Surrender, for me, was giving up that which was not mine to control...other people.
It was only when I surrendered, that I won the war I had fought for so long. My fear turned to faith, my anger to compassion, and my sadness to hope for a brighter future.
Hugs
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