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To Let Go
Takes Love - Surrender
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To surrender
means not to be protective of others.
It's to let our loved ones face their own
reality.
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To surrender
means to stop trying to control others.
It's to use my energy to become what I dream
I can be.
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To surrender
is not to regret the past.
It's to grow and live for the future.
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To surrender
is to stop denying.
It's to become more accepting of reality.
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To surrender
does not mean to stop caring.
It means I can't do it for someone else.
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To surrender
means I cannot enable any longer.
It means I have to allow others to feel
their own consequences.
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To surrender
means to stop being in the middle of the
arranging of events.
It's to allow others to impact their
happenings.
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To surrender
is to be unwilling to adjust my schedule to
everyone else's.
It's to take full responsibility for me.
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To surrender
is to fear less and give up guilt and
inadequacy.
It's to love and accept both myself and
others more.
Source: Daily
Affirmations For Adult Children of
Alcoholics, Rokelle Lerner, Health
Communications, 1985. p.361.
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