LAUGHTER AND LOVE

I wonder if all our woes aren't born in our resistance to all our woes.

We have heard often enough, and have come to realize, that acceptance is the answer to any and all problems...and it is wonderfully easy to see that is true when it's another person's problem. But when it's our own?

That's when we come again to the very fact that acceptance cannot be self-willed...it can't be arrived at like a decision of what shoes to wear. Acceptance begins life as a crash-and-burn proposition...we crash and burn trying to get what we want rather than accept what we've got.

This will be true until we learn to live a life of acceptance...until we learn to cease resisting our own life. That's when we're living a turned-over life...a life centered in and directed by God.

The hard lesson a-learning is we still have to do our own footwork. We still must "feel the fear and do it anyway"...we still need to move closer to that friend/foe/spouse/employer who, for no apparent reason, is being so ugly to us. Ease closer. With an attitude of gratitude (no mental eye-rolling!). With love (no "oh, puh-leeze"). With love. And laughter. Actually, we'd best start with laughter or we'll never get there.

And that's my long-sought-after answer to life itself...laughter and love.

Thank you.