May 2024 Week 3

Acceptance Prayer:
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. 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. 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 my attitudes.”

You have seen this prayer before from me, but I do believe acceptance is the answer to all of my problems and my only hope of believing “Everything Is As It Should Be.” To be honest, this is not where my first thought goes. In my life, unfortunately, my first thought is scrutinizing and analyzing. My mind is very busy at it replays situations and determines if I have made the “right” decision or action, always trying to do life “right.” What exactly is that anyways and further it seems quite egotistical of me to think I always know what is right and exactly where my life is and should be. That in a nut shell is my daily source of stress and it is exhausting. I also firmly believe this drains my central nervous system and my adrenal glands which is soooo not where I want to be!! So I know this, I believe it yet I still do it far too often. The more I learn, the more cleanses I lead, the more convinced I am that the key to my optimal health is peace in my head and heart. This acceptance prayer and this intention is certainly a great place for me to go back to again and again. As I have said before, life bumps all of us off our center but the key is to have the reference of the place you want to be to come back to - this is our integrity and the place of contentment.
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” Mahatma Gandhi