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Acceptance
Dear Lord, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference.
The reason I opened this with prayer is because of its meaning and the fact that I was reading an excellent book afforded to me by a dear friend and it resonated so vividly with one of my many values that I decided to share with everyone.
Therefore, without further delay, here’s what it alluded to and to what I understand by it— if you truly want your life to flow and change for the better, you need to accept and appreciate everything that shows up for you—even and especially the things you can’t control, don’t want, and positively abhor!
Sounds contrary, right? Well, maybe a little counter-intuitive, I agree. Still, let me share a very important secret with you, based on my own experience and that of so many I have read from and about.
If you can implement this aspect of accepting and appreciating what you have into your life, even if other changes prove too challenging, you will dramatically enhance the quality of your life.
Allow me to explain. Letting go of resistance and getting into acceptance is a way of allowing the flow in your life. Mastering the art of acceptance doesn’t just make you feel better in a bad or challenging situation—it really does. The deeper truth is that everything that happens to you has potential to open you to even more joy and happiness, especially the seemingly bad things in your life.
You have no doubt already had experience of a twist of fate for the worse that turned out to be for the better. Perhaps you were made redundant and with the changes in law, your sentence is shorter. Be aware now that it wasn’t an exception. It IS THE RULE! Shifting your perspective so that you want and accept what you have, even the so-called negative aspects, will pay dear dividends in your life.
The trick is in stepping back and identifying the lesson in whatever has happened and allowing yourself to change, grow, and evolve. You cannot do that without letting go of resistance and getting into acceptance. Beyond that then, if you come to believe that everything has a positive intention for you, then you move in a state of being appreciative of all that happens, because you trust and hop that “silver lining” is there to be found, and it will be worth more than all the heartache.
Trust and Hope are key factors here, because it might indeed take some time before you can see how the lesson plays out for the positive.
Are there exceptions to this? The really painful events of life, like the death of a loved one, don’t have silver linings. Even so, you can allow the process of grieving and coming to acceptance to change you in a healthy and positive ways. You may come to appreciate and value your life and relationships more, knowing that every moment is precious.
So a key to flowing and enjoying life is wanting and accepting what you already have, for the love of it, or the deeper gift, know that by doing this it opens up the potential to create more, or different, or better.
And when it feels impassible to want what has happened, know that by accepting it, you can allow yourself to grow and evolve.
Wherever you are right now is perfect, even when it is not!
And if that scrambles your brain, that’s key as well. Take a moment now to reflect on that statement and begin to feel how it may be true to you.
Thank you and God bless!
Ernesto Cole
I Asked God – Prayer
I asked for strength and God gave me difficulties to make me strong.
I asked for wisdom and God gave me problems to solve.
I asked for prosperity and God gave me brawn and brain to work.
I asked for courage and God gave me dangers to overcome.
I asked for patience and God placed me in situations where I was forced to wait.
I asked for love and God gave me troubled people to help.
I asked for favors and God gave me opportunities.
I received nothing I wanted — I received everything I needed.
My prayer has been answered.
I asked God for a flower — He gave me a bouquet.
I asked God for a minute — He gave me a day.
I asked God for true love — He gave me that too.
I asked God for and angel — and He gave me you.
I asked God for strength that I might achieve.
I was made weak that I might learn humbly to obey.
I asked for health that I might do greater things.
I was given infirmity that I might do better things.
I asked for riches that I might be happy.
I was given poverty that I might be wise.
I asked for power that I might have the praise of men.
I was given weakness that I might feel the need of God.
I asked for all things that I need that I might enjoy life.
I was given life that I might enjoy all things.
I got nothing that I asked for, but everything I hoped for. Almost despite myself, my unspoken prayers were answered. I am, among all men, most richly blessed.
The Prayer of an Unknown Confederate Soldier
Ernesto Cole
Peace
Peace — it does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble, or hard work.
It means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart.
Ernesto Cole
Life
May your life be full of:
Enthusiasm so you may see ahead.
Happiness to keep you joyful.
Problems to keep you strong.
Grief to keep you human.
Hope to keep you happy.
Failures to keep you humble.
Triumph to keep you eager.
Wealth to satisfy your needs.
Faith to banish depression.
Decision to make every day better than yesterday!
Ernesto Cole
Life is Too Short
Life is too short to wake up with regrets. So love the people who treat you right. Forget about the ones who don’t. Believe everything happens for a reason. If you get a second chance, grab it with both hands.
If it changes your life, let it.
Nobody said it would be easy, they just promised it would be worth it.
Friends are like balloons — once you let them go, you might not get them back. Sometimes we get so busy with our own lives and problems that we may not even notice that we’ve let them fly away. Sometimes we are so caught up in who’s right and who’s wrong that we forget what’s right and what’s wrong. Sometimes we just don’t realize what real friendship means until it’s too late.
I don’t want to let that happen, so I’m going to tie you to my heart, so I never lose you.
One thing you can give and still keep… is your word.
The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.
Ernesto Cole
Love Is
Being happy for the other person when they are happy,
Being sad for the other person when they are sad.
Being together in good times and being together in bad times.
Love is the source of strength.
Being honest with yourself at all times,
Being honest with the other person at all times.
Telling, listening, respecting the truth and never pretending.
Love is the source of reality.
An understanding that is so complete that you feel as if you are a part of the other person.
Accepting the other person the way they are,
Not trying to change them to be someone else.
Love is a source of unity.
The freedom to pursue your own desires while sharing your experiences with the other person.
The growth of one individual alongside of, and together with the growth of another individual.
Love is the source of success.
The excitement of planning things together,
The excitement of doing things together.
Love is the source of the future.
Giving and taking in a daily situation,
Being patient with each other’s needs and desires.
Love is the source of sharing.
Ernesto Cole
The Art of Being Happy
Happiness is the destiny of the human being. But remember—“It is not happiness in living, but in knowing how to live.”
The human being has the inalienable right to the pursuit of happiness. With everything, accept your limits, because happiness is in limitation.
“Every human being searches for happiness and this is without exception.” Because of this, keep in mind—“happiness consists principally in loving what is.”
Happiness comes from within, it is up to us. There’s no one that could not cultivate a disposition to being happy if he or she wishes to do so.
To find it, look well. And look within. Because the problem is that, “frequently some of us look for happiness like when we’re looking for the eyeglasses when we have them right above our noses.”
I’ve noticed that each person is as happy as he or she wishes to be. In conclusion and deep down, happiness is nothing more than the continuous efforts to create happiness.
If you are not well, look for someone worse off than you and help him or her. You will both get better.
It is true—“We only make our happiness in being concerned with others happiness.”
Even to make our way towards happiness, always take the longest route.
It is insisted—“there’s no comparable satisfaction to that of making others happy.” Life is like a dice game. If they don’t fall the way we wanted, we must have the art to take the best advantage of how they fell.
And more so, happiness and misfortune ordinarily turn those beings who are already so.
To see without envy the fortune of others and with satisfaction common happiness, is to enjoy being blessed.
That is why, be good—“kindness towards everyone excusing their faults,” is the philosophical rock of happiness.
It’s a shame that we have created men that act like machines and machines that act like men.
Remember—“Pleasure is a mental state—happiness is a prolonged, cheerful state of mind, and more so—We are happy in the exact measure in which we know how to forget.”
Ernesto Cole
Formula To Happiness
Love, being happy is reduced to this.
Love without being afraid of exceeding yourself.
Love until your feet hurt.
Love even though everything else invites you not to.
Love everyday as if you are never to love again.
Love and be so happy that without showing it, it shows.
Love even if you’re not loved.
Love whom no one loves and everyone hates.
Love in any language, every being.
Love more those who love least.
Love until your heart smiles.
Love even though you think you’re getting nowhere. God is able to make something out of nothing.
Love until they say you’re crazy.
Love black Monday, Tuesday the 13th, Ash Wednesday, any Thursday, sour Friday, wonderful Saturday because only so will you also love Sunday of Resurrection.
Love because you may lose it all, but no one will ever be able to stop you from loving.
Love, and when you can no more, even when your heart is bleeding for your bother or sister, do not doubt it—continue to love!
Love who has nothing and no one will give him or her anything.
Love in the certainty that someone already loves you and will love you like you will never understand—until infinity!
Ernesto Cole
Which Is?
The most beautiful day? Today.
The easiest thing? To err.
The biggest influence? Mother.
The biggest obstacle? Fear.
The biggest error? Abandon oneself.
The root of all evil? Egotism.
The most beautiful distraction? To work.
Your greatest creation? Children.
Your worst defeat? Discouragement.
The first need? Communication.
What makes you happiest? To help others.
Greatest mystery? Death.
Worst defeat? Bad mood.
Most dangerous person? Envious one.
The baddest feeling? Resentment.
Most beautiful gift? Forgiveness.
The most vital? Home.
The fastest route? The correct one.
The most pleasant sensation? Inner peace.
The most effective shield? A smile.
The best remedy? Optimism.
The biggest satisfaction? An accomplished duty.
The strongest force in the world? Faith.
The most beautiful of all? Love.
Ernesto Cole
The Best
Good is to have leftovers.
And better is to have the needed.
Good is to enjoy life.
And better yet to know it.
Good is to be helped.
And better to triumph alone.
Good is to know how to speak.
And better to know to keep quiet.
Good is the right company.
But it’s better to be alone.
Good is to live without having to work.
But better is to have it.
Good is to be applauded.
But better is for your flaws to be pointed.
Good is to be free.
But better is the “enslavement” of the honest man.
Good is to become big.
But better yet to remain a child.
Good is to be loved.
But better for you to love!
Ernesto Cole
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