The Art of Surrender Archives

June 6, 2018

in Connecting with God, Faith, Hope, Mindful Beauty, Surmounting Difficulties, The Art of Surrender

Kate Spade Hope

I was chewing on my own faith this past week and getting stuck on some of Jesus’ words like dry bread in the back of my throat. It was a particularly hard tenet to swallow:...

Person waiting in lonely room with words that read: WAITING, In the wait our faith is challenged. We are asked, "Do you Trust Me even if you lose this?"

March 9, 2018

in Mindful Beauty, Mindful Soul, The Art of Surrender

I’ve waited for a marriage to fall through or be reborn. I’ve waited for pregnancies to end in the dark too soon or come to full fruition in soft whimpers and fresh cries. I’ve waited for business opportunities to flow into my hands or fold...

September 21, 2017

in Hope, Mindful Soul, The Art of Surrender

Counter-Intuitive Hope

Oftentimes, feelings of powerlessness come over me after I've faced circumstances armed and animated with all I've got and nothing's budged. Powerlessness begets hopelessness, or does hopelessness beget powerlessness? (This might just be a chicken-and-egg argument.)...

An illustration of a man holding up his own shell, looking lonesomely over at a lonely woman making a small fire outside of her own shell

July 6, 2017

in Faith, Mindful Soul, The Art of Surrender

Shell-Less Living and the Shell-Crusher

Sometimes we need to take a great, terrible, long fall from a comfortable perch. It’s the only thing that will crack and crush the shell we never needed in the first place, but we created and clung to out of fear and the comfort of...

November 15, 2016

in Mindful Soul, The Art of Surrender

The Pedestal of the Heart

Some Background - Pedestal of Our Hearts It’s my opinion that we all have a pedestal in our hearts: a place of prominence and devotion. It’s a hidden, deep place in our hearts where we want to pour out unconditional love and focus. (This could be...