Acceptance and Surrender

THE FOOTHILLS FOCUS July 16, 2003

Acceptance - Surrender

Dr. Bess S. Permut
Focus Columnistnn We must have some partnership to sustain us to live and to survive in a world filled with confusion and danger. With whom you may ask yourselves? Often we give of ourselves to find that where we plant our seeds of love, grow only weeds of despair. Our Creator knew of this and He knew that few of us attain greatness or goodness, that we are filled with human weaknesses, that we are bound to fail one another. That is why He stressed surrender all your heartache unto Him, so you can live. He knew we could not cope with all of the human weaknesses alone. He knew mankind needed an anchor that he might steady his craft and keep it from drifting into stormy seas, keeping it off dangerous reefs.

So He often reminded us that our answer was to have faith and depend on Him and only Him, that the storms of man's folly could not swamp us. He realizes that in man himself as a human being, little was concrete; that we are all liquid beings taking on the shape of whatever receptacle we are filling at that moment. He bade us find in Him the never-changing security of His great love. He made us this way so we were incomplete, filled with a restlessness that gives us little peace so we will strive to reach higher and try harder to find our way back. We were not given a soul as a heritage; we were only lent one, and if we fail to keep up our payments on this loan, we lose it again. He meant it to be so, for in this world of the material, if it gave complete satisfaction, we would soon lose the reason for our being here.

We all need a formula for successful living. None of us, none was sent it as a birthright. Surely you now understand how hard it is to reweave that tapestry that you left unwoven and will awaken to the responsibility you have in this lifetime.

Seek and ye shall find. All have destiny; all have purpose. It rests with you to fulfill your destiny.