What is surrendering?\u00c2\u00a0 What does it mean to “let go”?\u00c2\u00a0 Surrendering is accepting; letting go is releasing.\u00c2\u00a0 Surrendering is acknowledging the authority of a Higher Power; letting go is trusting His authority.<\/p>\n
What do we need to surrender to and let go of?\u00c2\u00a0 Our past, present, and future.\u00c2\u00a0 Our anger, resentments, fears, hopes, and dreams.\u00c2\u00a0 Our failures, successes, hate, love, and desires.\u00c2\u00a0 We let go of our <\/em>time frame, our wants, sorrows, and joys.\u00c2\u00a0 We release our old messages, our new ones, our defects of character, and attributes.\u00c2\u00a0 We let go of people, things, and sometimes ourselves.\u00c2\u00a0 We need to let go of changes, changing, and the cyclical nature of love, recovery, and life itself.<\/p>\n We release our guilt and shame over being not good enough, and our desire to be better and healthier.\u00c2\u00a0 We let go of things that work out and things that don’t, things we’ve done, and things we haven’t done.\u00c2\u00a0 We let go of our unsuccessful relationships and our healthy relationships.\u00c2\u00a0 We let go of the good, the bad, the painful, the fun, and the exciting.\u00c2\u00a0 We surrender to and let go of our needs.\u00c2\u00a0 Often, a hidden need to be in pain and suffering is underneath our failed relationships, pain, and suffering.\u00c2\u00a0 We can let go of that too.\u00c2\u00a0 All of it must go.<\/p>\n Surrendering doesn’t mean we stop desiring the good.\u00c2\u00a0 It means that after acknowledging our desires, we relinquish them and get peaceful and grateful about circumstances, people, and our lives exactly as they are today.<\/p>\n — Melody Beattie, Beyond Codependency<\/em>, p. 240<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is surrendering?\u00c2\u00a0 What does it mean to “let go”?\u00c2\u00a0 Surrendering is accepting; letting go is releasing.\u00c2\u00a0 Surrendering is acknowledging the authority of a Higher Power; letting go is trusting His authority. What do we need to surrender to and let go of?\u00c2\u00a0 Our past, present, and future.\u00c2\u00a0 Our anger, resentments, fears, hopes, and dreams.\u00c2\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letting-go"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}