Acceptance...

It is a returning to an ever present lesson.  I keep having to find a way to accept new things that I do not like, do not wish and would really like to be different...

Acceptance requires that I take into account what is occurring and despite all of my wishes to the contrary, boldly stated objections and pining for things to be different, it just isn’t.

In the immediacy of the present moment, I do not have all the good feels, or knowledge that it all works out to everyone’s benefit...I just have the hard realization that something is going down that is painful, hard or frightening.  It is never hard to accept the good things, right?  The blessings and gifts just come for us unbidden.  But those hard things really work to push us to seek solutions to problems we are only acutely aware of...

I do not have to like it to accept it

I do not have to like it to accept it

I do not have to like it to accept it

I do not have to like it to accept it

Again, still...