A Poem About Acceptance –
...Previous Page: A Motivational Poem about acceptance and allowance: I Allow Myself To Need Help To Learn This |
A woman asks a second woman for directions. The second woman pauses a minute, and then answers: |
It is so so common that we do this to ourselves.
How often do you say:
I should know how to do this or be this already.
For example, when thinking we should be different, we might say:
I should be able to be calm.
Do you know how to be calm all the time?
No.
Do you know what?
You are HERE, and it is OK to be HERE.
It can be useful to know where HERE is.
When we accept ourselves as we are, then we can stop putting our energy into pretending to be somewhere else.
Then we can....
...get the help we need or
...develop the skills we need or
...receive the directions we need
to take the next step.
Encouragement to accept and manage our anger:
Can you learn how to stay calmer more often?
Yes, you can.
So yes, on the outside you might act in a calm way if you believe that to be the most helpful approach for yourself and others. But, you can also set out on the private journey to become someone who genuinely feels calm more often.
That journey may mean recognising your anger.
It may mean exploring your anger.
It may mean feeling shocked at just how much anger you feel.
But hey, isn’t it great to accept you are HERE so you have the freedom to move somewhere else.
Isn't it great to accept who you are, so you have the freedom to grow gently into who you choose to be next.
A Poem About Acceptance and Encouragement Become Her
Someone tells you you have
missed the mark, so
you twist yourself to
look like one who has
already done the work and
got there.Does it occur to you? –
You have the strength and
the ability to
become her.It’s OK to realise there is an alternative to pretence.
“Yet at the same time many even among the leaders believed in him. But because of the Pharisees they would not confess their faith for fear they would be put out of the synagogue; for they loved praise from men more than praise from God.”
(John 12:42-43, NIV)
© Katherine T Owen, 2009.For spiritual poems on this site.
For an explanation of the release – It’s OK to...
For another poem about acceptance, move to
The 7 Stages of Grief for Illness: Acceptance
Move to the next one of the Poems of Encouragement: I Can Do It
Move to a poem about acceptance of yourself as God sees you:
You are beautiful
The following article also continues the theme of how to accept yourself as you are - who you are and where you are in order to find peace.
Prayers For Relaxation And Rest, Quotes
Be Loved, Beloved
15 Spiritual Love Poems
God Love Self Love
For 14 years, Katherine was severely disabled with CFS/ME, unable to walk, with little speech, and with inadequate care.
Katherine's small beautiful collection of poems take the reader with her as she journeys to learn to love herself and to know the Love that is always with us.
"One thing that struck me was the stripping of ego in the work. Most of us have a comfy ego façade, but weakness and disease tore Katherine’s away. Her poems come from the heart."
Dana Taylor, Author of Ever-Flowing Streams of Healing Energy
FREE
Forgiveness E-Book
Includes:
Forgiveness definition
Forgiveness poems
It's OK To Believe
A book of spiritual poems on belief and faith by the author of this site. The book includes many spiritual quotes.
”A veritable mine of timeless wisdom and inspiration. Katherine T Owen has been a student of A Course in Miracles for more than 16 years and the alchemical effect of this on her thinking leaps out from every page of this book.”
Ian Patrick, Founder of the Miracle Network in the UK, Editor of Miracle Worker magazine
Click on the book cover above to view some pages or buy the book.
Click here for
more testimonials for the book