Surrender to Love

I want to start out by saying how grateful I am that you're here and for all of the wonderful words of praise, blessings, and love that you've shared with me over the past several months! You are the reason why I write, record podcasts, share to my Instagram stories, and do this amazing work I am blessed to do!!!

Thank you from the bottom of my heart! I encourage you to take a moment to pause and recognize something that you yourself are grateful for!

Today we are talking about surrendering. Contrary to what you might be thinking, surrendering doesn't mean that we're giving up. We aren't throwing our hands up in the air saying, "That's it. I'm done. I give up!"

No...in fact, it actually means that we are making ourselves available to co-create a beautiful life with God. When we choose to surrender, we allow God to do His work in us as He intended. It's allowing your higher self, the Holy Spirit, the Divine, Source (whatever you choose to call it) to move through us. It's choosing LOVE over FEAR! Marianne Williamson states in her amazing book, Return to Love, that "surrender by definition means, giving up attachment to results." It's choosing to let go of the outcome you have planned for your life and releasing it God's will...which is the GREATEST good for ALL! It means to live life with love as opposed to fear.

And, fear shows up in many different forms that may be more familair to you. Feelings of anxiety, anger, frustration, guilt, shame, judgment, worry. These days, we are constantly pushing. We are constantly working harder, hustling for more, striving for success, beating ourselves up, and worrying about things that are completely out of our control. And when we are worrying (choosing fear) we are not living fully in faith. We are not in flow with the Universe and not allowing God to work miracles. Essentially we are saying, "You know what Uni, I got it from here...I can take care of things. I know what's best!"

In order to get past this FEAR, we must view others, ourselves, life as LOVE. God = Love! When we choose to allow LOVE (God) to move through us, this is when we can truly live fully. Surrending is when we choose to see love, when we choose to extend the love that's within us that was God-given to us...that's when miracles happen. 

We must stop trying to fill this void in our hearts, in our soul, with external things. Your happiness doesn't come from outside of you. It won't come when you get the new job, when you lose the weight, when we find the perfect partner, when we have more money. Until you find happiness within yourself, which starts with surrendering to love, nothing and noone will make you happy.

We cannot control what others do, what they do, what's going to happen tomorrow. The only thing we can control is ourselves.

We must adopt the rule that this life...this big, beautiful, amazing life...is happening FOR US! God didn't create you to live a miserable life. He didn't create you to worry about the future, to stress over the past. NO, friend. He created you to live fully, and that takes faith. It takes surrendering, allowing, love to move in you and through you!

I pray this message resonated with you! If so...leave me a comment below.

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Big Love 💛

Adios