You do not need to be a churchman to live a surrendered life. All of us can trust that choosing goodness will always, ultimately, result in creating rightness. And anyone can decide to choose goodness. Anyone can decide to set aside the tally list of successes and failures—and the stress and anxiety that accompany the task of keeping the list current. None of us can see eternity. None of us knows with perfect clarity what the end will be. But when we choose goodness we can be certain that, in the fullness of time, the end will be right.

