Two Surrenders

A true spiritual path or any recovery process that has any hope of success, growth and maturity requires two surrenders.  The first surrender is to the fact that you need help.  Some people join religious groups for other reasons, and they don’t really improve much.  But when you know that you are not going to improve or get your life together left to your own will, then you have that chance to surrender to “I need help.”  People then seek out a spiritual path or some steps to take in progression. But the second surrender is to do the work.  You cannot just join or sign up or say you are a member of something or some group.  I see people who say that they need and want help.  Help is offered but they do not do the work.  They read nothing, get no advisor, and don’t work the spiritual path offered to them.  Without the second surrender, life continues downhill.  I have found it so.