Surrender

Surrender can come as a result of loss. You lose a battle, and you surrender. You lose a job, a friend, a child, and you surrender. Losses in life eventually bring us all to a point of surrender, even if that point is our very last breath. But surrender doesn't only follow loss. It can come any time. With any breath. It can happen right now. The paradox is that whenever our moment of surrender comes, it doesn't feel the way we expect. We may realize, despite the tragic or challenging circumstances surrounding our surrender, the surrender itself was the thing we were looking for all along. To not have to hold everything together, to not have to hold up the world, the relationship, the job, on our own shoulders. Surrender can feel an awful lot like relief. How ironic and how beautiful — that the very thing most of us spend our lives running away from is not only the thing we end up running towards, but the very thing we long for most.