The white flag of whatever
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When you’re tired of fighting and never getting anywhere.
When you promise to do better, to be better but you never do and never are.
When you’ve stopped being an active participant and chosen instead to just get thru another endless day.
When you’ve stopped caring about your dreams because they seem so unreachable and it hurts too much to dream anymore.
That’s when you wave the white flag of whatever.
It signifies you don’t care because caring feels too vunerable.
Caring puts you in danger of having old wounds reopened.
But maybe rather than waving the white flag of whatever, what you should really do is surrender.
To get in line with a bigger plan which may not include the things you want.
Just the things you need.
And contrary to what you may think, the master planner knows exactly what you need.
It’s Him.
It’s always been Him.
“My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” 2 Cor 12:9
It’s your choice.
And surrender is an act which must be repeated. Daily for the most stubborn of us.
It’s your life.
Live it or live in it.
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There’s freedom to be found in surrender. My flag is tattered from the waving.
Maybe surrender is what I need. I don’t know.
Keeping busy chasing the wind.
When you catch up with it,
It slips out of your hands
For you don’t know its measure.
You learn to do more with less
As you grow old.
Restless heart knows no peace.
It doesn’t hear the voice calling to it from afar
Come, find your rest in me.
“Live it or live in it” — wow!
Thanks kat.
That is like the big picture of what I wrote yesterday. Read it if you get a chance. So good… your blog, that is.
http://brina-harwood.blogspot.com/2012/01/dreams.html
Brina,
Thanks so much for directing me to your post. It was beautiful. I tried to leave a comment but got an error message. I’ll try again later. Thank you again.