I find the difference between resignation and acceptance fascinating. I know it as the difference between relying on self-determined objectives (ego) and relying on spiritual principles (God).
To me, resignation is driven by self-will and acceptance is graced through God's will. We can know to the last dotted i what resignation brings. We can never know with any certainty what God's will may bring...plus it can take years for us to get a clue that God's will is always for the best for us personally. It's just rare that on its face it looks like it.
In short, resignation keeps one in self-will...we resign our self to what we perceive, even though what we perceive is not what we want. We usually identify it as "our rotten luck," which belief keeps us stuck right there, looking no further because we do believe in "our rotten luck."
Acceptance usually comes from the same place of pain; however, it is only in our crash-and-burn that we accept our powerlessness. It is in not resigning but accepting that we turn in despair from self to Self.
The help we seek is often the mirror image of God's will for us. We're hooked on cigarettes, booze, a love, sugar, gambling...broccoli! The help we seek is to be able to keep smoking, drinking, etc., but to suffer no adverse consequences. God's will is that we cut that crap out and start living by spiritual principles. To the enlightened mind, there are no adverse consequences in living by spiritual principles. Ah, but getting that enlightened mind is our work for the rest of this life and the next if we're doing it right.
The paradox: We must make our self available for it on a daily basis...it is a gift of grace; it opens in a heartbeat.
Thank you.
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