Surrender

This is an interesting topic, surrendering to a greater awareness.

Surrender seems to be connected to ideas like letting go, and even relax, or acceptance, or acknowledgment.

Surrender also involves a great deal of attention. Lip service won't really work. Also lack of examination of what one surrenders to, or complete lack of contemplation might be obstacles to surrender.

You can surrender to the fact that you have a broken foot, but that doesn't preclude doing the best things to aid in healing the bones. So surrender still needs your effort.

Worry and irritations are part of the friction we feel when we hang onto notions that may be outdated or absent.

Trust or confidence might be needed to bridge the gap of uncharted territory that surrender invites. Also an understanding that the present situation is no longer desirable and so a leap is a possibility or is wanted. The term leap of faith is connected to surrender.

But then you get into an examination of what is faith. Is it a collection of half beliefs or is it complete confidence. And what about doubts. Can doubt be the chain that prevents surrender.

I find this an interesting topic because we face changes that require surrender to a new way of understanding throughout our lives. We adjust to the death of our loved ones and friends. There is a type of surrender that occurs after much grieving, where we truly understand that the death occurred or some loss occurred, and there's no way to resurrect that life.