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“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 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 accept life 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 in my attitudes.” -- “The Big Book” of Alcoholics Anonymous
These are powerful words. I read this quote today in a story about a parent of a child with Downs Syndrome. It reminded me of a friend of mine who used to quote this passage and then say, “Which part of nothing do you not understand?”
Nothing. As tough as it is to understand, no matter what the circumstance, acceptance of the moment is the key to our contentment. We may not like the situation or the person or the place we are at, but at this moment in time, it is exactly where we are supposed to be. And that’s where God comes in. God will get us through anything. I believe that with all my heart and soul. Hopefully I won’t have to test that concept today.
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