Mary: Beautiful Surrender
What prevents you from surrendering yourself completely to God?
Our Guest Blogger today is: Rose Chicoine-Hartung, Leader of Soulcore, lover of Mary and the Rosary.
Surrender- beautiful surrender. I think of those two words together and wonder how many people would describe surrender as beautiful. Surrendering is such a foreign concept in our society today. It’s ugly and difficult because often times when we are needing to surrender to God and his will the most, when we need to lay all of our prayers and petitions; worries and concerns down at his feet we can’t. We don’t want to. We want to control the outcome. We know what’s best.
“Let it be done to me according to your word.” - some of the very few words that Mary speaks in the Bible. Her YES! Mary’s complete and total surrender to God the father. What does this look like in our daily lives? How do we surrender?
Mary became such an amazing confidant of mine when I was truly struggling. She was a mother- I was a mother. All I wanted was another baby. Yet somehow I continued to miscarry. It was in the question “WHY- why does this keep happening” that I found our Heavenly mother. I related to Her. I had zero control of the outcome of my children’s lives. Mary watched her own baby grow knowing, that by saying “yes” to God and raising Jesus His son, her own heart would be pierced. Marys whole role on this earth was to draw people closer to Jesus her son.
By placing our faith and trust in Mary and knowing that she will intercede on behalf of us to Jesus her son we can find peace, we can let go of our control and we can truly surrender to God. By drawing our hearts closer to the heart of Mary we are able to grow in relationship with God and by placing our trust in him we are able to surrender ourselves and our lives knowing that he will answer our prayers in the most perfect way. We pray “let it be done to me according to your word.” Blessed Mother Mary pray for us.