Acceptance

Here is one of my favorite quotes. I memorized it fourteen years ago when I first ran across it. It was written by a physician and comes from Alcoholics Anonymous p. 417.

"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 in my attitudes."