Sweet Surrender

We are all tired. Really, we are. It’s a hard road, but it’s also a beautiful one.

Perhaps we expect too much from ourselves and from others. Perhaps humanity can only make slow progress, like an inch worm. Perhaps we need to celebrate how far we have come more often. And rest more. And relish the simple pleasures. And look for love everywhere.

There is a river near where I live. It meanders slowly, peacefully. It doesn’t ask itself why it isn’t an ocean, or a raging river, or some other thing. It just surrenders to what it is. Maybe we just need to surrender more to who we are. I think I will lie down tomorrow beside the river. And take a rest. And sweet surrender.

~ Jeff Brown

See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
• Respite By the River
• Allow Everything to Rest Right Now
• Resting in the Presence of the Beloved
• Stepping Out of Time and Resting Your Mind
• In the Stillness and Silence of This Present Moment
• God Rest Us
• The Beauty and Challenge of Being Present in the Moment
• Today I Will Be Still
• Cultivating Stillness
• I Need Do Nothing . . . I Am Open to the Living Light
• A Sacred Pause
• Aligning With the Living Light
• Mystical Participation
• Dwelling in Peace
• Inner Peace
• A Season of Listening
• Eckhart Tolle on Silence and Stillness
• Eckhart Tolle on Going Beyond the Thinking Mind
• To Be Still
• Hiatus
• The Soul’s Beloved
• Mmm, That Sweet Surrender

Image 1: Saaxiib Qurux Baden (“Beautiful Friend”), Minneapolis, MN – Michael J. Bayly (4/18/24).
Image 2: “Cosmic Connection” – Michael J. Bayly (11/30/20).