An article by Saundra L Washington

ACCEPT LIFE AS IT COMES
If you take life as it is, you will understand your frustations, grow from them and enjoy life's abundance.


Those living on the highest levels of life have learned to accept life on its own terms. There are some realities about life that we must accept. This is the key to living joyfully in communion with the heaveny while abiding here on earth. Life, no matterhow we choose to look at it, is a challenge. It is the beginning of a struggle that continues untill we breathe our last breath. Life is something that we did not request.None of us asked to be born. Neither did we ask to be poor, or black, tall or short. We did not ask to be a part of one family as opposed to another.

Life is full of risks.Thereis a certain elementof risk taking that is inherent in every venture we undertake; whether it is in bussiness, or in marriage, in a profession or in athletics. We never have complete security within ourselves. For we know that every moment we live, our lives are in constant danger. A stray bullet may hit us, a car emerging out of no where may crush us, and a slip of the foot may resullt in our death. So life is unpredictable. We get no warning, we are afforded no red alert, and we get no second chance at life.

It will help you to accept life on its own terms rather than struggle against it.Have an attitude that is open to all aspects of reality. We do this by accepting life on its own terms-accepting that pleasure and pain,happiness and unhappiness are all a natural part of the human experience.Fighting against life realities and adopting a stance of negativism only creats unnecessary pain and difficulty in your life.Accepting life allows you to understand your frustations,grow from them and experince life's abundance.

Whenevr we give god a spiritual applaud or standing ovation,it is for life. God has given us life, something so tremendous,potent and marvelous that no scholar has ever been so smart enough to detail its compostion or understand from where it derives its sustaining guidance.Life is a force so complex that it cannot be duplicatd. And, most amazing and thrilling of all, He has given us minds. It is through our minds,the thoughts we think with it, and the impressions we store in it, that we are conscious of living. In short, your life becomes just what your mindsmakes it for you and just what it tells you life is.

Few people go deep enough within their soul to realise its entire fullness,breadth and scope the amazing gift of life that enables them to pursuea lifetime of accomplishment. What a marvelous gift. What a marvelous power! God has endowed us with the power to think, to believe, to create, to choose, to imagine, to feel , to aspire.Having a wonderful sense of appreciation puts all our pitty complaints and frustations, irritations and negativity into prespective.You live on a realm beyond grudges, in-gratitude, selfishness and take-for-granted. You enjoy and value each moment and are determined to get the best out of every second.

Don't forget that God is a living energy to quicken, increase, and guide our own energy. The infinite Power Source is a living elixir to lift up, sustain and establish our own spirit. Being negative takes the spirit out of you. What is the point of God increasing your spirit while you at the same time decrease it with negatives? If you refuse God's gift of an abundant life, then you must do without it.