Acceptance

Some things just are.

When we look around, we often see things that we wish were different, so we spend a lot of energy and capital of various kinds trying to change or fix them. And sometimes we end up with disappointment instead of the desired change.

Sometimes we make them worse.

Can you hold loosely and with some measure of release, those things – situations, people, characteristics, events, what have you – over which you have no control or no business in? Too often I believe I can fix things. And too often I’m wrong.

Some things just are.

So what do I do with that, with that place of holding loosely something I’m not happy about, something I’d like to be different, usually the way I want or would prefer?

It’s frustrating and difficult to the extent I keep beating my head against it. Keep trying to fix or change or eliminate. Keep wishing for something else with the unfulfilled script in my head of what is supposed to be.

Some things just are.

Can I accept what God has deemed unmovable by me? Ask now what? Look for the plans to build my house around and over and beside the rock. Or look for another place to build. Or just wait and rest in Him until His will, His perfect plan plays out.

Grant me peace.