Daily Reflection

“Sometimes, it’s not the times you decide to fight, but the time you decide to surrender, that make all the difference.” (Sissy Gavrilaki)

I’ve been fighting my whole life since a teenager to get what I think I want. Sometimes to the point of exhaustion. And when I have gotten any of those things, has it made any of life better. Typically, not. Rather, it just leads me onto the next fight, the next battle, the next something where I find myself exerting so much control and force that I often lose myself in the process.

This is why over the past few months I’ve finally decided to do something entirely different. I’ve surrendered. Surrendered to my health issues. Surrendered to my relationship woes. Surrendered to my financial insecurities. Surrendered to my loneliness. Surrendered to my emptiness. Surrendered to everything. I’ve given up the fight. I’ve waved the white flag. And you know what? Life has felt a whole heck of a lot less burdensome.

A lot of insight has come in this surrendering. Sometimes so much so that I am awed at how much me trying to control the outcome of so much in life had blocked me from receiving. Receiving from God that is.

I’ve shed an incredible number of tears lately. Sometimes in the strangest of places. And sometimes in the humblest of moments where I have been able to connect far greater to the hearts of others, something I couldn’t ever seem to do when I wasn’t surrendering at all to anything.

Surrendering to the tide of life may be the best action of life I’ve made in a very, very long time, and one I’ll be reflecting on for probably the rest of this life…

Dear God, I see how surrendering the fight has truly changed my life. Thank you for all the love that has come since, from you, from others, and from within me. 

Peace, love, light, and joy,
Andrew Arthur Dawson

Silly Joke Friday

Silly Joke #1 (Two short ones…)

As my family was leaving Disney World, my daughter waved and said, “Goodbye Minnie!” 
My son waved and said, “Goodbye Mickey!” 
Then I waved and said, “Goodbye money!!!”

My cousin Jimmy was having a terrible time falling asleep unless he was lying on a pile of old magazines. It turns out he had back issues.

Silly Joke #2

Things to ponder:

– Why is it that if someone tells you that there are 1 billion stars in the universe you will believe them, but if they tell you a wall has wet paint you will have to touch it to be sure?

– “I am” is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that “I Do,” is the longest sentence?

– When cheese gets its picture taken, what does it say?

Silly Joke #3

Sunday School Teacher: “If I sold my house and my car, had a big garage sale, and gave all my money to the church, would that get me a ticket into heaven?”
NO!” the children all answered.
Sunday School Teacher: “What if I cleaned the church every day, mowed the yard, and kept everything neat and tidy, would that get me a ticket into heaven?”
Again the answer was, “NO!”
Sunday School Teacher: “Well, then, how about if I was kind to animals and gave candy to all you children and loved my wife with all my heart, would that get me a ticket into heaven?”
Once more they all answered, “NO!”
The Sunday School Teacher was feeling very proud of her class and getting ready to talk about Jesus but wanted to see if anyone had the real answer.
Sunday School Teacher: “Well then, does anyone know how can I get into heaven then?”
Little Johnny, that mischievous boy always saying the most inappropriate of things suddenly shouts out, “You just gotta be dead Teacher!”

Bonus Silly Joke

One day, there was a catastrophic event that caused all humans on Earth to die. To sort things out, everyone went to Heaven. God came in and said, “I want the men to make two lines. One line for the men who ruled their women on Earth and the other line for the men who were ruled by their women. Also, I want all the women to go with St. Peter.” With that, the next time God looked, the women were gone and there were two lines. The line of men who were ruled by their women was 1000 miles long, and in the line of men who ruled their women, there was only one man. God became angry and said, “You men should be ashamed of yourselves. I created you in my image and you were all whipped by your mates. Look at the only one of my sons who stood up and made me proud. Learn from him! Tell them, my son, how did you manage to be the only one in this line?” The man replied, “I don’t know, my wife told me to stand here.”

Peace, love, light, and joy,
Andrew Arthur Dawson

Question For The Day

Today’s question is…

Name a movie you’ve seen that portrayed real tragic historical events from our country’s past that disturbed you so greatly because of how real it felt?

Peace, love, light, and joy,
Andrew Arthur Dawson


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