From victory@oz.sunflower.org Tue Jan 16 12:26:43 2001
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 23:45:38 -0600
From: Victor Eisenstein <victory@oz.sunflower.org>
Subject: Accepting our circumstances (for 1-15-01)

Our very first problem is to accept our present circumstances as they are, 
ourselves as we are, and the people about us as they are. This is to adopt 
a realistic humility without which no genuine advance can even begin. Again 
and again, we shall need to return to that unflattering point of departure. 
This is an exercise in acceptance that we can profitably practice every day 
of our lives.

Provided we strenuously avoid turning these realistic surveys of the facts 
of life into unrealistic alibis for apathy or defeatism, they can be the 
sure foundation upon which increased emotional health and therefore 
spiritual progress can be built.
  Bill Wilson from "As Bill Sees It"



When I am having a difficult time accepting people, places or events, I 
turn to this passage and it relieves me of many an underlying fear 
regarding others, or situations life presents me. The thought allows me to 
be human and not perfect, and regain my peace of mind.


Prayer for the Day
Lord, I will accept the world today as it is, realizing what I can change, 
and what I can't. Amen.


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NOTE:  The "thought for the day" is NOT written by me, but by many others, 
mostly unnamed.  I hope they help you as much as they help me.