Meditation reading for Friday May 31, 2024
ACCEPTANCE —
Anything in life that we don’t accept will simply make trouble for us until we make peace with it. For many of us, life has become far more serene since we discovered the Serenity Prayer. But there is often so much in our life that still baffles us. There are the countless situations, in just one 24 hour period, that we can’t control. And no matter how forcefully we try, we can’t manage to change the many people in our life whom we’d like to change. We may feel assured that they need to change, forgetting that this is for them and their Higher Power to determine, not us.
Learning to accept what we can’t control becomes habitual with enough practice. And the profound relief of knowing that we’re not responsible for every decision, every situation, and every person in our life will feel like the best blessing we’ve ever received.