The author, who was struggling with surrender after several costly attempts to conceive, made a visit with her husband to an abbey in Kentucky where she met Brother Rene.
Through a correspondence that extended over several years, Colette allowed herself to be taught by this monk. In the process, she was led to a beautiful relationship with her husband, and to a firm relationship with God.
Colette’s friendship
with brother Rene taught her to trust in God and to embrace life with new vigor and lasting confidence in the God whose love has no boundaries. She was able to accept that she was not to become a mother, or was the couple to adopt a child.
The
book ends with the five major steps Colette took in her journey to surrender:
a. she accepts what she could not change or control
b. she sought out human support and solitude
c. she spoke and released built up pressures in
singing, writing, dancing, etc.
d. she's sought spiritual nourishment in prayer, in the Mass, and the psalms.
d. she became aware of the opportunities to surrender in daily life
“Every day we are called
to surrender in love, and faith, and work, in relationships, in our hearts, in our bodies, and in every breath we take. We are drawn, despite our resistance, toward the sweetness of surrender.”
