“Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.” ~William James
When I stopped living in the problem and began living in the answer, the problem went away. From that moment on, I have not had a single compulsion to drink. 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.*
*Taken from the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, 3rd Edition, pg. 449, “Doctor, Alcoholic, Addict.”
If you can nail the final two sentences down from the paragraph above one day at a time, you will have peace in all you do…I write from experience.
P.E.A.C.E.
Jay@EagleLaunch.com
John 16:33, “I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”
