If I’m not the problem, there is no solution.
I first heard the above phrase about 26 years ago when I was sitting in a 12-Step meeting trying to figure out how to not drink or drug one day at a time. It is the underlying meaning of The Serenity Prayer. “God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference.
Whenever I have a problem I have choices (according to the Serenity Prayer):
1. I can accept the problem…even if I don’t like it.
2. I can change the problem not by changing it, but by changing the way I view and act toward the problem.
3. I can view the problem as unacceptable and remove myself from it.
Therefore whenever I am presented a problem I have 3 solutions to choose from and if I stay in the problem by continuing to bitch and moan about it then I become the problem.
…nuff said
P.E.A.C.E.
Philippians 4:13, “I can do all things through Him who stengthens me.”
