Surrender

One of the things that Christianity got right is "surrender."  I never found a spiritual fit path that worked without some surrender.  A lot of surrender.  In Christianity, Jesus is supposed to be God.  He does not look like a god.  He does not look like what we think God would look like if there is a God who showed up.  Jesus, the blue collar carpenter.  Jesus on the cross.  But that is the point of Christianity.  God surrendered whatever God-ness is, and became a simple human being. But many Christians, though they say they believe it, don't really want to do the surrendering.  They are like most of us, trying to get more and become more, with power, looks, control, and so on.  Bill W got it right.  When he surrendered he was a penniless failure.  Like Jesus on the cross.  Abandon yourself!  Scary.