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My Daily Musings-August 19th, 2026

My husband and I have been watching the show, The Chosen in the Wild, where Bear Grylls takes some of the cast of the show, The Chosen, on an adventure in the wild. He talks to them about the show and their lives.

Dallas Jenkins, the producer of The Chosen, was on an episode I watched recently. After he did a very physical challenge across a river, he said that “surrender and humility always precede growth.” That could be applied to our lives. We all have hard trials that feel like they might break us at times. But if we are humble, trust in our Heavenly Father, and completely surrender to His will, we can grow and develop into the people He wants us to be.

It is hard for me to surrender to my Heavenly Father’s will that having chronic illness symptoms that disrupt my every day life is what I need to experience now. But I trust that He will help me make it through every day, and experience joy in the journey along the way.

It is hard to surrender our will to our Father’s will because we don’t know what is going to happen next. We need to have faith that our Heavenly Father has a plan for each one of us, that He has a purpose for our lives, and that He can do more good in our lives than we ever could.

Have you ever gone through a difficult experience that helped you grow in ways you didn’t expect? What does surrendering your will to God’s will mean to you?

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