Learn Acceptance
-Have the courage to acknowledge the truth!-

Human lives are filled with all kinds of separations. Friends, mates, and family members - the people in our lives are only lent to us. If they accompany us for some part of our journey, we are blessed. we don't get to control or keep them

Sentences beginning "if only" can go nowhere, but straight to regret. They support our false belief that we can control what happens in others people;s live. "I should have", "I could have", "I would have" are all variations on the same theme. They postpone acceptance and necessary grieving.

At times it's we, ourselves, who do the learning, we can count it a success, not failure, when we had the courage to acknowledge the truth of an ending.

Today, though I may go through some pain as I learn acceptance, I rejoice in the strength an clarity it gives me.