And acceptance is the answer to all my problems today. When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing, or situation, some fact of my life, unacceptable to me, and I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing, or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment. Nothing, absolutely nothing happens in God's world by mistake. Until I could accept my alcoholism, I could not stay sober; unless I accept life completely on life's terms, I cannot be happy. I need to concentrate not so much on what needs to be changed in the world as on what needs to be changed in me and my attitudes.
-- Edited by Phil at 19:35, 2008-02-27
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Live each day as if it were your last...because tomorrow?
It might be.
"We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have. "
What if your problem is not being able to accept something? Is acceptance the answer to the problem of acceptance? Ok Im just being a pain in the arse.
NO BR, we need serenity to accept things. If you can't accept something we ask for serenity so that we can accept it.
God grant me the serenity,TO accept the things I cannot change. Accepteance is not an act of the will or the mind but a gift and consequence of Grace that we prepare to permit ourselves to recieve by being desirous enough of it to pray for it in the first place.
It cannot be forced on us, We are freed men and women.
