Just as the waves consistently roll in without my help, life happens without my having a say in it or my influence. I can’t change some things that bother me.
I have always had a problem with the word “acceptance,” and that has to do with my thinking that acceptance is this: me thinking I have to believe what you believe.
No.
Acceptance is when I stop resisting that you may think differently than me. What we resist, persists. In a prayer I know is a line that always gets to me, that defines acceptance: “Taking this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it.” When I hear those words, I feel calmed. I don’t have to like it or even participate in whatever it is. I just have to take things as they are. I still get to believe what I believe is the truth.
Wow! I like how God set that up. It’s just wrapping my brain around it that becomes the problem!
We have to cease fighting everyone and everything. When we allow this world to be as it is, we can let go of trying to fix that person or thing and focus on our own path of healing.
“Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in Your sight, O LORD, my rock and my Redeemer.” Psalm 19:14
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