During the season of Lent, some people find it helpful to pray the Surrender Novena as a way to strengthen their relationship with Jesus and fully place their lives in His hands. A novena is a prayer ...

One of the greatest obstacles to surrendering to God’s plan for our lives and living with fearless abandonment with God, the Father like Jesus did, is fear. Now, living without fear doesn’t mean being ...

How can you let go of situations that are out of your control and surrender them to God? What aspects of His character help you to surrender all to Him?

I had someone tell me recently “I keep trying to surrender it to God, but it’s so hard because it’s not a physical thing to hand over. I surrender it, and then the next thing I know I’m holding it ...

Surrender is variously described as: abandoning self; accepting whatever comes your way; getting out of the way; giving up; laying down in someone's arms; obedience; oneness; renunciation; resignation ...

I have a friend who lost a son in a car accident when he was 20-years-old. That was 37 years ago. This summer her 6-year-old grandson and his mother were struck and killed by a school bus while ...

Last week, I wrote that spiritual growth often results not so much from working harder or trying to behave more piously, but from surrendering to a cosmos that’s undeniably beyond our control. “To ...

With Elijah, hiding his face before the Lord, who is revealed in “the tiny whispering sound” that follows a storm, and with St. Peter, being plucked from the stormy waters of the Sea of Galilee, no ...