We usually resist and try to stop, prevent, deny or escapefrom difficulty. But often resistance creates more obstacles to action. We are busy avoiding the difficulty and finding ways around it, which uses a lot of energy and can make us feel lost and powerless. But meeting things as they are, even surrendering to them, can activate an energy from a deeper place. If we surrender to the earth beneath, the sky above, the nature all around, and the glorious mystery of existence, it all gives us back confidence, clarity and primal resources which empower us.