Are you at war? War is so much more than what we have seen happen repeatedly through history in the natural realm. War occurs daily, and the most ferocious battlefront is often our minds. Even when the  enemy is not immediately apparent or even tangible, we may be experiencing internal strife that has the potential to be more damaging than the culmination of any war that ever was, in history. However, the one thing that all wars have in common is the way in which they eventually end, which is through  what is arguably the most powerful declaration of a nation: I SURRENDER.

The wars we fight in the battlefield of our psyches are no different. There comes a time when we must lay down the armor of war and pick up the armor of peace, with those very words: I SURRENDER. 

It is only in this uttering that the divine being working within us can come forth and worry subsides into the resting place of prayer and supplication. We can be our worst enemy, causing so much damage on the physical terrain of our beings. But, if we would just surrender and relinquish the absurd idea that we control the outcome of our destinies, we can begin to build again with a spirit of solace and reflection. 

Surrendering is not a sign of weakness. In fact, it is only wisdom that allows us to know when to lay down our noisy strategical agendas and habitual self-destruction in order to hear our divine instruction in the quiet whisper of surrender. 

----Love, Peace, and Progress, 
Baria Leshea Jennings