Acceptance

When it storms, the rain comes down hard.....it thunders, lightens even, tree branches break, sometimes even trees fall, large ones too. Then the storm starts to calm down, it continue to rain, but then it slows down, then it stops. The sun comes out, trees get greener, birds sing a new song, and your path seem a little clearer.


After you go through the hurt, the pain, the anger, and even the rage, you start to look at life for what it is; A Bowl of Experiences. If I hadn't gone through what I went through, would I still be the person I am today? If I hadn't experienced what I experienced, would I have learned that lesson anyway.

Trails come and trails may go, they enter into our lives to make us stronger. Where they lead us no one knows, but the path it takes us down leads us to this glorious crown.

There will always be bumps in the road called life. These bumps are a part of the process. I was once told to change the things I can change accept the things I can't and have the wisdom to know the difference. We can't change our past, so why dwell on it. We can't change other people, how they feel about us, what they say about us. Really it's none of our business anyway what they say, think, or how they feel. It's their feelings, they own that not us!

All we really have control over is our behavior, what we add to our relationships, and what we think, feel and say about others.

I've learned to accept my past, not make excuses for it. I wasn't a bad person, but my behavior was bad, and even though I may have been justified then, I am not now if I continue to behave that way. I have learned to accept who I was and who I am now.

Learn to be in the moment, and let go.

Life

LIfe isn't about waiting for the storm to pass....
It's about learning how to dance in the rain!