Surrender and Devotion

Surrender and devotion:

of surrender and devotion — and it’s my sense that this is absolute, a complete seeing that there is nothing else but life in constant letting go and then a reclaiming of itself through new and various forms. Life is devoted to its own continuation, to its expression of wonder, beauty, and divine self worship. We see this through every aspect of nature, of a flower’s surrender and devotion shown as roots deep through earth, petals spread to the warmth of sun and nourishment of rain. With this a flower offers itself as a blossom for pollination, for its essence to continue through a bee’s worship of its bloom. Life is always in this process of surrender and devotion, letting go itself in one particular form in order to carry on through another new appearance. We see that everything is temporary, fleeting in its singular expression, and yet lasting too through the essence of its cause.

our surrender and devotion is just the same, we are more complicated than a flower only by mere degrees, but our essence is the same. We’re life, rooted too in earth, dependent on sun for the warmth of our existence. We could say that a spiritual life is one of awareness to our brief expression, a bittersweet gift of knowing ourselves as a seasonal bloom and surrendering to each moment as if it were our very last. In truth no moment will ever again be repeated, and our…