4 Reasons to Trust the Universe With Your Drreams

THE PART OF me that wants to be in control doesn’t like the word hope.

- Gabrielle Bernstein

To my fearful mind, hope implies that there’s something I’m unable to make happen on my own. While I may not like that concept, it’s exactly what I needed. Hope helps us move through our problems and choose to perceive them in a new way. Hope is the conduit for miracles.

For me to move past the sadness, shame, and need to control, I had to surrender to hope and let go of my plans.

The pathway back to hope is through surrender. It’s not something that comes naturally to us – it must be a daily practice.

Consider my situation. Here I was, in the midst of writing a book on how to trust in the love of the Universe, all the while trying to control my own life’s circumstances! The need to control is sneaky. It can blindside us. The ego thinks it knows the way, and it does everything it can to keep us in a headlock. The best way, and ultimately the only way, to stay connected to the flow you’ve established is to surrender and then surrender some more.

Surrendering to love is not always easy, but it’s absolutely necessary if you want to live a miraculous life. You don’t have to surrender fully overnight. In fact, it usually doesn’t happen all at once. Surrender is a process. A Course in Miracles says, “Each small step will clear a little of the darkness away.”

Here are the steps I used to clear away the darkness of control and surrender to the love of the Universe.

Step 1: Take your hands off the steering wheel

In his book The Seat of the Soul, Gary Zukav writes, “Take your hands off the steering wheel. Be able to say to the Universe, ‘Thy will be done,’ and to know it within your intentions. Spend time in this thought. Consider what it means to say, ‘Thy will be done,’ and allow your life to go into the hands of the Universe completely.”