Anybody who knows me well, knows I’m a big fan of Elton John’s Music. What they might not know is I’m an even bigger fan of his song writing partner, Bernie Taupin’s, lyrics. They aren’t the usual, I miss you I love you, I love you I miss you of most songs. He looks at things differently, which I enjoy. The refrain from the song, This Train Don’t Stop There Anymore, speaks to me. It goes like this.
“I used to be the main express. All steam and whistles headed west. Picking up my pain from door to door. Writing on the storyline. Furnace burning overtime.”
For most of my life I was convinced that life needed to go a certain way. My way. Then I discovered the benefits of surrender. I’m not the center of the universe. I am not always right and I don’t always know best. More importantly, all that is okay. I have found the joy in just being me. It doesn’t mean I have given up, or stopped trying to improve life. However, the pressure is off. I’m free. The players I coached who played freely, always played better.
I used to write a story in my head, about how awful it was when things didn’t go as I thought they should. Those stories gave events emotional power over me. Now I choose to feel the emotion when it arises, but without a story. Then I can move on without picking up my pain from door to door. Now it’s feel, let go, learn, and move on.
It also helps me in putting others before myself, which has not come naturally to me in the past. It’s still a work in progress, and that’s okay too.
In my post, Small Package, I attached a link to a video from the movie, Dr. Strange. In it the master says this. “Arrogance and fear still keeps you from learning the simplest and most significant lesson of all……….It’s not about you.” Surrender helps me learn that lesson.
A line from another song, Knee Deep by the Zac Brown Band, sums it up for me. “When you lose yourself, you find the key to paradise.
May you have enough today, one moment at a time.
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