What does acceptance mean to you?
The serenity prayer starts with God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change.
I cannot change a thing that happened in the past and many things that happen in the present.Acceptance is the key.
This is from AA's Big Book
And acceptance is the answer to all my problems today. When I am disturbed , it is because I find some person, place, thing....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.
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 my attitudes.
To me the courage to change means not that I should change another, but rather I should change myself and learn to accept others as they were and are.
Last edited by frankie_b; 09-19-2007 at 02:41 AM.