A Prayer of Surrender: All is Well
by Nancy R. Bowers, RScP
Shifting into the present, I consciously choose to still my mind. I invite in the stillness. I pause to appreciate the continuous nature of life. Always moving forward. Always expressing its benevolent nature. It is and within the Isness is Peace; in the Isness, Deep Comfort.
Taking this moment to remember that Isness, I allow its peace to envelop me. I am God’s Stillness. I am the willingness to be an instrument of Divine Peace. I am the God’s Love demonstrating kindness for all. I am not my wild imaginings. I am not the fears that knock at the door of my mind begging to come in and tear things up. I rest in the certainty that, despite my sporadic ability to see it in the moment, all is well. More than that, it is sweet and fulfilling and brimming with Love. I open the door for THAT. The rest are simply fantasies, and not even good ones at that! All that disrupts my serenity is not welcome here.
In God I trust. I do not know what anything is for. The stories my mind has made up about their purpose sometimes fail to remember that truth. How frequently I face the pressure of thinking there is something wrong, until I remember that it is all God and therefore, there can’t be anything wrong. It’s only my mind’s judgment that has impeded my success. It is the habit of believing its lies that block my awareness of the Peace that is everywhere present.
Each time I sense a disturbance, I surrender. Your will, not mine, Lord. Let me remember all is well. Let me rest in Your Certainty and allow my mind to return to Your Comfort. Let me be thy instrument of Peace. Let me be a demonstration of Your Joy. I give thanks that this remembrance is forever here the moment I decide to choose it. Then, I let go. I let go. I let all things be as they are and trust that my lack of ability to comprehend does not preclude its perfection. I surrender.
Let me always remember that God does it so much better. And so it is. Amen.