tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15398304.post1397249491508774285..comments2024-03-26T17:44:29.168+00:00Comments on The Mercy Blog: Striving to surrender...Mike Farleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06732248182662167951noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15398304.post-76192276992329160632009-03-29T19:19:00.000+01:002009-03-29T19:19:00.000+01:00Amen! As I slowly age, my faith while sure is no ...Amen! As I slowly age, my faith while sure is no longer certain. Allowing for a bit of mystery and less surety can be scary but also liberating, that only a living relationship can bring.Veritashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18262525481125837163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15398304.post-47921292539513832032009-03-29T18:06:00.000+01:002009-03-29T18:06:00.000+01:00I too struggle with surrender. So often I want wha...I too struggle with surrender. So often I want what I WANT, anmd I don't seek what God calls me to do.A Secular Franciscanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09184259228282290040noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15398304.post-24682735191221387792009-03-29T15:53:00.000+01:002009-03-29T15:53:00.000+01:00Oh, yes!!! Striving to enter his rest. What a pa...Oh, yes!!! Striving to enter his rest. What a paradox, eh, Mike?<BR/><BR/>It is so terribly hard to surrender. It's so counter-intuitive. We are surrendering to something we cannot see or feel or touch, and with the eyes of faith which, as that cool quote so aptly puts it, has nothing really it can rest upon ... except him, really. In one way it's just totally mind boggling that we can surrender at all. How he permeates everything, that we can do it.<BR/><BR/>How I look forward to a time when we are beyond, though, into the "more". :)Suehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01122659239039900398noreply@blogger.com