"Surrender"

This inspirational series began as a way to share the story of my spiritual journey, piece by piece. “Surrender to what is.Let go of what was.Have faith in what will be.” -Sonia RiccotiWhile painting, I began to think of the intuitive motion of a wave.Transformation.Trust.Surrendering.Life is full of ups and downs. The waves don’t stop coming. Sometimes they are calm and serene, other times extremely vicious and powerful.We can let these waves crash us down, over and over,or we can learn to ride them. Surrendering is a strength, not a weakness. It is recognizing that we do not know everything.If we stop and transition into this way of life, maybe there is a new perspective that we had not seen before.We do not get to choose the situations that life presents before us, but we do choose how we react to them.Things are going to happen whether we choose it or not, so we might as well be flexible and embrace it.Just LET GO and go with it.Who are we to take things so seriously and think that we know what’s best or HOW things are “supposed” to be.Something can completely change at any given moment. Things almost never go as planned, so we must be ready for anything sudden that may shift the course of our direction.That is the beauty of life.The choice is ours.Are we going to resist the waves that come crashing forward or are we going to put our faith in it?May we all be blessed to surrender and find complete joy in the process of letting go.