Open to Surrender

OPEN TO SURRENDER

When you ask

God’s will be done

Can you accept

What has become?

Are we simply wanting

Confirmation

Or are we open to

Surrender

When His will appears

To bring tears

When scenarios play out

In our head

Scenarios long gone

Lying dead

The reality of who we are

Comes clearly through

And if only then

We knew

What pain would be addressed

By not being distressed

And submitting fully

To that call

When asked for

And received

Rather than self-deceive

Reach out in time

And you will see

How it is

You came to be

The fulfillment

Of your destiny

So relax in peace

And acquiesce

For this too shall pass

And an inner calm

Will settle and last

-Shiidon, October 2013

There was a meeting last night that I attended about service. It helped to focus on what is important and what is not.  In accepting what is in our hands and what is not.  It brought a great amount of reflection and mediation today.  The overall flow of the day was one of joyful gratitude that nothing seemed able to dissuade.  Though I have much to do, I find myself late at night at my trusty desk. I was moved to write this poem.