Monday Musings – It Is Time to Surrender

“How tightly should we hold on to our wills,” you ask Lord?

How often have we mouthed the words or expressed the desire to surrender our wills to Yours, to accept whatever happens to us each day as Your will for our lives and that which is best for our salvation?

How often Lord have we prayed for the grace to let go and let You direct our every thought, word and deed? - a lifetime!

But most of us have failed in surrendering even a smidgen of our wills. We hold on foolishly and sinfully to them. We become more stressed, more prone to anger. And the more we realize that failure, the more entrenched in despair and discouragement we become. We do what we claim we do not want to do and fail to do what we know we should.

Lord, unleash the grasp the evil one has on our hearts, minds, souls and wills. Let us Lord accept ourselves as we are. Help us Lord to resign ourselves to the things we cannot change. Release us Lord from the anxiety we harbor for the spiritual well-being of those of our loved ones who have separated themselves from You and have consciously chosen to live their lives contrary to Your commands.

Embed this truth into our minds, hearts and souls: Every day forces a Christian to abide in an attitude of surrender or to live in constant stress.

That is what so many of our children and spouses see in us every day - constant stress and an willingness to trust all to God after we have made a good faith effort to resolve the issue ourselves. Serenity - absence of stress and fear - is possible only when we accept God's will and surrender all to Him.

We have known these truths for years, yet have been unable or unwilling to live them. That failure only increases our stress and unhappiness - the exact dilemma St. Paul expressed and which we have admitted above. O Lord fix what we cannot fix and do what we cannot do.

How different our lives and the lives of those we love, and who have suffered from our lack of faith be, if we simply did what we have long known we had to do - to place all into Your loving hands, to trust You at all times and under all circumstances. How better our earthly lives would be, and what a blessing it would be to our families and loved ones, if we would simply allow Your will not ours be done.

Give us the grace Lord to abandon our obstinate efforts to hold on to our sinful, untrusting wills instead of surrendering to Yours.

May Your will be always done!!

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