Acceptance Is The Answer To All Our Problems
any people today have As they say in the big book of
lost jobs after decades of Alcoholics Anonymous, "Acceptance
service; many others is the answer to all my problems
suffer within jobs they can see today... I can find no serenity
no way out of. In order to until I accept that person,
survive a painful job loss - place, thing, or situation as
indeed, any type of painful loss being exactly the way it is
- we must come to some suppose to be at this moment.
acceptance. How does one find Nothing, absolutely nothing
acceptance amidst the happens in God's world by
humiliation, shame, despair, mistake."
fear, grief and uncertainty job
loss can invoke? We cannot force ourselves into
peaceful acceptance. Coming to
How do we accept financial acceptance is often a volatile
insecurity threatening our lives emotional journey occurring over
and our family? Rarely, can we time. To begin the journey toward
skip over our painful feelings, acceptance try letting go of
wave a wand and create new analyzing or attempting to
employment in short order. Often, "figure out" the "why's" of the
we want difficult life situations situation and seek to trust.
to be some other way.
Realizing every life experience
Yet, if we resist accepting the has a purpose - even if beyond
situation and our mixed bag of our knowing - helps pave the way
feelings we inevitably end up to acceptance. Just holding what
fighting ourselves and the world. we cannot resolve or understand
Acceptance is the path back to within our hearts moves us closer
peace. to acceptance. As we aspire
toward acceptance of life's
challenges, grace gifts us with a said, (with my paraphrasing),
measure of comfort and solace. "Come. I'll open a bottle of fine
Champaign and we'll celebrate as
"My life is but a weaving between surely, some great good will come
my Lord and me. about from this job loss."
I cannot choose the colors He
worketh steadily. Losing a job or feeling trapped
Oftimes He weaveth sorrow, and I within a job, is likely a
in foolish pride blessing in disguise although in
Forget He sees the upper and I, the moment the loss or the fear
the underside. may seem insurmountable. When I
Not till the loom is silent and lost my two retail stores after
the shuttles cease to fly ten years of business, my
Shall God unroll the canvas and $100,000., my marriage and my
explain the reason why. self esteem I thought this was
The dark threads are as needful one of the worst things that
in the Weaver's skillful hand could happen to me in this
As the threads of gold and silver lifetime.
in the pattern He has planned."
Now, with the clarity of
Author Unknown hindsight, I see the loss of my
stores as Divine Intervention. By
The Blessing of Job Loss losing everything I thought I
valued, I discovered what was
One day, world-renowned really important to me. I lost
psychologist, Carl Jung, had a every thing but found myself.
friend arrive at his door wholly
distraught from losing his job "Three earthly losses
that very day. Carl Jung, invited which bring gain to the soul:
his friend into his home and loss of a friend,
loss of health and reinvestment, a new beginning. A
loss of riches." door opens. If you fight change,
you will be fighting your whole
"A Compilation of Triads," Volume life. That's why we need to find
I John F. Wright a way to embrace change, or at
least to accept it."
Acceptance Opens Life's
Door Through aspiring to accept life
on life's terms we begin to move
In their book, "Life Lessons," from feeling like a victim and
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and David blaming the world around us. We
Kessler write, "change...usually get glimmers of a larger purpose
begins with a door closing, an at work in our lives.
ending, a completion, a loss, a
death. Then we enter an Through accepting our lives now,
uncomfortable period, mourning we learn to be kind to ourselves
this completion and living in the even amidst life's storms.
uncertainty of what is next. This Through acceptance we can find a
period is hard. measure of peace in this moment.
Herein, we build the foundation
But just when we feel we can't of a life well-lived and build
take it anymore, something new bridges to a new future.
emerges: a reintegration, a
About the Author:
Teresa Proudlove is the publisher/editor of http://www.yourlifework.com offering support and inspiration for your work and life.
Teresa has been inspiring, supporting, and guiding over 3000 people upon their lifework path for fourteen years leading workshops and authoring many internationally published articles.
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