Saturday, November 15, 2008
In the discipline of submission, we are released to drop the matter, to forget it. Frankly most things in life are not as nearly important as we think they are. Our lives will not come to an end if this or that does not happen.
In submission we are at last free to value other people. Their dreams and plans become important to us. We have entered into a new, wonderful, glorious freedom - the freedom to give up our own rights for the good of others. For the first time we can love people unconditionally. We have given up the right to demand that they return our love. No longer do we feel that we have to be treated in a certain way. We rejoice in their sucesses. We feel genuine sorrow in their failures. It is of little consequence that our plans are fustrated if their plans succeed. We discover it is far better to serve our neighbour than to have our own way.
-Celebration Of Discipline, Richard Foster (The Discipline of Submission)
Innocence
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