My thought for today is acceptance. Acceptance does not mean surrender, and being powerless does not mean being helpless. It is a fierce and grounded acknowledgment of things exactly as they are in the present moment—not as we wish they were, not as they used to be, and not as we hope they might become. To accept a situation, a person, or a reality doesn’t mean you agree with it or that you choose to leave it unchanged forever. It simply means you stop fighting the reality of what is right now. Fighting the fact that it is raining won't make the sun come out. Acceptance encourages us to look for our umbrella. There are certain things in life that we simply cannot control - the effects of alcoholism, the weather, rush hour traffic. We are powerless over these things, but we can change our attitudes, how we react to these things and whether or not we will allow these things to control us.
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