Surrendering expectations, surrendering to God

Surrendering expectations, surrendering to God

Kind promise: I will surrender patiently. The tricky bit about this promise is that I don’t want to surrender always to everything. If the wicked witch writes “surrender Catherine” across the sky with her broom, I do not want to pack up and go home. When and to what...
Surrendering the Upset

Surrendering the Upset

Kind promise: I will surrender patiently. The Buddhist proverb says: “when the student is ready, the teacher will appear.” Moving more deeply into this promise, I might be ready to learn about patience—my Buddhist teacher, Susan Piver, chose it recently as...
Surrender is part of the rhythm of working for change.

Surrender is part of the rhythm of working for change.

Kind Promise: I will surrender patiently. This Kind Promise works best supported by two others: I will surrender patiently, reinvent whimsically and advocate courageously. These promises answer the question: What happens when life doesn’t go as I planned? They are a...