What It Means to Surrender

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Maybe I’ve been thinking about this all wrong.

Maybe I don’t have to be roasted on a spit

or kneel all day in a shaft of light.

Maybe I don’t have to stop being human

and stop living my life.

 

Maybe I do live my life, but slowly.  Quietly.

Maybe to surrender to you, Lord,

means to walk in the woods with a clear mind.

Maybe to surrender to you means to walk

in the woods alert and aware.

To feel the road beneath my feet.

To hear the woodpecker drumming

in the top of the tree.

 

Maybe to surrender to you—to say,

your grace and your love are wealth enough

for me; give me these, Lord Jesus,

and I ask for nothing more—maybe

that means, Lord, give me this moment.

Lord, help me be in this moment.

Lord, help me be myself.  Fully myself.

 

You created all these things, you love

all these things, all these things continue

in being in you—I continue in being in you.

Do I really think you care less about me

than you care about anything else?

There is no place where you are not,

not even here, not even now.

 

I am walking down a gravel road.

I glimpse the valley in the distance.

My dog leaps ahead me.

I am surrendering myself to you.

You have given me your grace and love.

You have given me this day.

You have given me my life.

I ask for nothing more.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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