We must learn to walk the path of surrender, and seek ways to keep us inspired. Once we embrace surrender as a way to be in our lives–open, receptive, trusting, and grateful, then we can seek inspiration.

Here are five simple ways to stay inspired to continue living into surrendering:

1 Find prayers, poems, or books to encourage you.

2 Be in nature—look at the sky, breath in the fresh air, notice a flower or a tree.

3 Share your soul with a trusted friend or companion.

4 Throughout the day, pause, take a few deeper breaths, and become more conscious of the presence and power of love within and around you

5 Remember what St. Benedict writes in his Rule: Always we begin again.

Colette Lafia

(Let us keep the Summit with North Korea in our prayer)