Are you willing to be made nothing?

Are you willing to be sponged out, erased, canceled, made nothing?
Are you willing to be made nothing? Dipped into oblivion?
If not, you will never really change. – D.H. Lawrence

Trying to bring about change in your life by being aggressive, by ‘taking charge’ shows a somewhat self-centered attitude about change. We must surrender, move beyond our compulsion to control, if we are to bring about lasting change. We yield. We allow ourselves to be helped. We prepare the vessel. We allow change to overtake us. We earnestly seek to do our part, and change comes!

It comes — not when we say we deserve it, but when we are ready to accept it.

Today, I surrender again. Each day I learn to surrender and grow deeper.