On | Trust and Surrender
“Try something different – surrender.” - Rumi
Trust and surrender. That is the only way through.
I used to believe that I needed to be able to “control” my way through things in life; like I had any control. But somewhere along the way, I learned that the only way to survive hard things unscathed is to trust and surrender.
To trust that whatever it is, it is exactly how it needs to be.
To surrender to whatever is happening and to just keep moving forward.
I sometimes get so caught up when things feel uncomfortable, when pain sets in. When something feels hard or different than what I expected. I resist. I fight. I imagine this is some survival instinct: to try to maintain what is. But the truth is – the only thing that doesn’t change is change itself. And the only way to survive the constancy of change, is to just freaking let go already, to stop fighting and to start loving.
Written by Courtney Sawyer
Art by Becca Williams
