THE PLACE WHERE GOD LIVES

The bar to acceptance for many of us is the fear that by accepting whatever we are resisting, we will make it true...that acceptance itself will make it true. We ignore the fact that whatever we are not wanting to be true is already a fact if only in our own mind, or how could we be resisting it?

Hard lesson learning: It is not accepting that makes our fear true.

Whatever we are resisting with all our heart, soul, body and brains...from addiction to he-doesn't-love-me to panic attacks...is kept alive by our obsessive attempts to make it not true. Leading us to overeat, drink, smoke, medicate which pushes her further away and brings on another panic attack.

The secret about acceptance is the minute we accept the truth of that which we are resisting, that changes it. 

We may not like it, but we are no longer resisting it. Which, if we're lucky, leads us to complete surrender, to crash and burn...also known as the place where God lives.

We surrender to the fact that we do not know, we do not know what we do not know, we are helpless in the face of that fact, and we need help. We turn to an unknown power greater than our self to find a way to live without our perceived heart's desire.

That is acceptance.

We do not know it at the time of surrender, but we will return here in our thoughts repeatedly for here is where our answers are...our answers to any and all problems, puzzles, secrets of life itself. Here in the ashes of self-will. Here...the place where God lives.

Thank you.