Submission

**Sit quietly, eyes closed and in silence for one minute before reading.**
   

With every Spiritual Discipline comes a corresponding freedom. The freedom that corresponds to the Discipline of submission is the ability to lay down the terrible burden of always needing to get our way. 

                                      -  Celebration of Discipline, Richard Foster

    Many of us have a revolting, nauseating, knee-jerk reaction to the word “submission”. I do. Exploring this subject as a spiritual discipline gave me a better grounding for what this truly involves as well as what gift comes from it. We practice Disciplines not for the Disciplines sake but in order to open ways for God to transform us. We do the discipline and He transforms … however He chooses.

    Is it shocking that freedom can come from choosing to submit?

    What are your thoughts? How do you respond to the word submission? How do you unnecessarily demand you “get your way”?

**Sit again in silence for as long as is available to you.**