Acceptance
There is a simple answer
To all my cares today,
When people, places, things or
Situations don't go my way.
It's so simple yet so difficult,
I seldom try it first.
It stays the final option
Till, with pain, my heart would burst.
When all my best laid efforts
Lay crying in the dust,
It is the final option
I try, only when I must.
When control and manipulation
And temper tantrums fail,
Acceptance is the only way
My heart will cease to ail.
Sometimes through acceptance,
The tables seem to turn;
More often, through surrender
There are lessons I need learn.
This I must remember, as
I trod my path today...
Absolutely nothing comes
That God's not sent my way.
Approval's not a mandate
To "acceptance" then, embrace.
I only need surrender
To trust the Master's Grace.
Acceptance is the Golden Key.
Serenity the door.
Oh, that I might sooner choose
To trust His Will much more.
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