“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.”

- Acceptance Prayer from the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous

My thanks to Gabby Bernstein for sharing these words. I’ve returned to them often over the last few strange weeks of lockdown and injury. Layering resistance on top of difficult situations leads only to more suffering. Trying to find peace with, and through, our challenges is the only way of ensuring our energy is used positively and for the benefit of others.