Surrender changes everything.

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Did a lot of reading this past week on the beach in Florida.
... and this book in particular really rocked my World. 
Here's a little excerpt from the book:

Surrender changes everything.
But we can't choose to surrender. It chooses us.
It finds us and meets us in our pain.
When we are at our lowest point. Our weariness. Our longing.
It enters in when we have run out of our own strength.
When we start to believe that things may never actually change.
That our lives don't really matter... and we break.

How could it be?
How could a good God create a life that doesn't matter?
So we cry out, and we ask for rescue.
Because somewhere deep down we know we are missing it.
Our own attempts have failed us.
This life we have orchestrated falls flat and leaves us lying in a corner,
huddled in despair in those dark hours of the early morning.

Then we see it. The crack of sunrise. Just a glow on the horizon.
Pink and orange starting to rise and create a hue that colors the sky.
It's God whispering: I am here. I am true. I am strength.
I love you as you are. Broken and fragmented. Let me carry you.
Let me show you a life that you never dreamed or imagined.
Let me take you on a journey so marvelous you point back to me.
Let me rename you.
Let me bring you back to your truest self.
The way I ordered you from the beginning.

All this for my glory.





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