Dixie's Ponderings
Surrender with Grace
Are you tired as a one-legged-man in a butt kicking contest? If the answer is yes it might be less about physical exhaustion and more about mental and spiritual fatigue. Down here in the South we know a lot about defeat. The Yankees kicked our butts until we were shoeless, shirtless, ammo-less, horseless and confederate penny-less. We were worn out. We had to quit, give up. But neither northerner nor southerner seems to know much about graceful “Surrender” with dignity and energy still intact. This almost unheard of, unknown kind of surrender allows us to stop struggling against the way things are and go with the flow, stop pushing the river, go with the grain instead of against it. Graceful surrender allows us to retain the energy to fight the spiritual or emotional battles that we pick because we are no longer at war with ourselves or the “way things are” or the way the man upstairs wants them to be for now.
If for example you don’t like the job, home, income, or relationship-you have don’t struggle and fight it-surrender and then focus your increased energy to find detours, solutions, cures, and fixes. Don’t give up, don’t become defeated, don’t struggle; the Grace will come. When the great inventor Thomas Edison could not find the answers to the problems his latest invention presented he would lie down on his couch, put a heavy iron ball in his hand, take a nap and let the idea come to him in a dream. Just as he would drift off the ball would fall and he’d awake and the direction would be given for him to take.
