Surrender, Letting Go, Love

What is the essential ingredient of love? Everyone talk about love, but how do you recognize it when you see it? The essential ingredient of love is to be willing, no anxious, to surrender your own desires and personal comfort in order to serve the individual you love. If you are unwilling to let go of your own agenda, your own attachments, and your own preoccupation with your self then you are not experiencing love. This same criteria can be used for love with another person in this world or it can be applied to one’s relationship with God. If you say you have love for God, then the question is how much you are willing to let go of your own desires and be willing to simply surrender to God. When you surrender with love you are not giving up your self. Instead you are actually experiencing your true nature, perhaps for the first time. When you surrender to another human being there is always the chance that the love will not be reciprocated and you will be disappointed. However, in the case of God you know that the love is always there and will never be rescinded. Therefore you can surrender with complete confidence that you will be taken care of much more effectively then if you continue to take care of yourself only. Surrender to God is the most important step you can take in your life. Be willing to take this step and find out what true love really is.