This post is part of a “Living Surrender” series I am writing as a way to live into my new book, Seeking Surrender, with my readers. Surrender happens in our daily life, the one we are actually living. It’s not a spiritual ideal for saints and holy people, but rather a living and dynamic force that…

Recognize the call to surrender everywhere: in your daily relationships, in how you handle your limitations, in your work challenges, in the ways you care for your family, and even in the simplest of things, like how you step into a cool swimming pool and plunge into the water. The other day, as I was…

Our everyday encounters create the platform for surrender. Throughout the day, we can bring the qualities of surrender—trust, acceptance, compassion, and release—into the way we respond to life. It’s our relationship to what’s happening that forms the cornerstone of our experiences. I offer you this sacred practice today as a way to live surrender, by…

I am starting a new Wednesday Wisdom series called “Living Surrender.” I hope many of you are reading my new book Seeking Surrender, and as we read it together I’d like to write and think about living surrender. When we hear the word surrender, it sounds both exhilarating and terrifying. Even though I have written…