It is only in and through him that we will find true rest and fulfillment and our true and deepest selves.

When we fully surrender to him we discover the place for which we have been subconsciously longing.

And it’s not in the striving that he’s found, but in the surrender.

I think most of you would agree that one of the things we think about when thinking about Summertime is water.

Nothing like cool, refreshing water on a hot summer day!

I can remember as a child learning how to float on my back in the water.

Floating is such an interesting thing. And I can remember the failure in attempts so many times as I tried to master this experience of floating.

The more I tried the more it didn’t work…

Until I realized I needed to stop trying

And just be.

Just be there in the water.

No striving.

No trying to stay above water.

Just complete surrender + trust that what I am putting my full weight on will hold when I let go of my effort and fear.

You can’t float till you let go.

Even though the official first day of Summer is still a few weeks away. For those of us in the US Memorial Day weekend typically kicks off summer for most people. So here we are summer of 2022. The world is as “not normal” as it ever or was or as I think we are all learning…any sense of so-called normal was just an illusion.

Navigating through these past few years has been different kinds of hard for each of us. Jobs have ended or changed, we’ve moved to different cities and states, we’ve grieved the loss of precious family members and friends, we’ve seen mass shootings and witnessed wars being waged…it’s a lot.