🩵The Sky Is Blue (and Other Things I Can’t Change)🩵

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We talk so much about acceptance and how hard it is...especially around this time of year.  I wonder...have you ever considered the sky as your proof you practice acceptance...in spades?  

The sky is blue.

That’s just how it is.

We don’t exhaust ourselves trying to “fix” it.  We don’t try to repaint it or hold a meeting about whether it should be a red sky, a green sky, a glitter covered sky.

We simply live under it.

Every day, we look at something completely beyond our control and carry on with our lives.  

No fight.  No resentment. Just blue.

Acceptance is fine if it's the sky, but what if around other things?  

We tell ourselves stories like...

I don’t like this.

I don’t believe this will work. 

This shouldn’t be happening.

There’s nothing wrong with the thoughts in the moment, but if we let them drive, we end up working overtime, trying to repaint the skies.

When my kids were little, they’d bicker over something ridiculous; who got the last piece of licorice, or who got to play with the favorite Pet Shop Pal.  I’d swoop in like the United Nations of motherhood, determined to broker peace. 

Eventually I realized: siblings will argue. (What? Really?  No matter what I do?)

It’s not a parental failure. 

It’s just life…being life.

Acceptance isn’t ignoring what’s happening, it’s recognizing what’s ours to handle.  We get confused because when something affects us, it feels like it must be our job to fix it.  But sometimes it’s not. This time of year tends to include all kinds of things we wish were different.

As we head into the holidays, we have so many opportunities to practice acceptance:

• The budget is what it is.
• Not everyone’s coming home this year.
• Two relatives still aren’t speaking.

Acceptance doesn’t mean we wear a t-shirt that says, “I love this.”  It just means we stop fighting the truth long enough to see what ours to actually do…if anything. 

(Doing nothing, just like with the sky, counts as a good strategy sometimes.) 

From that  place, we can make an intentional choice of what comes next, instead of making our reaction our choice.

Shop smarter.

Simplify the menu.

Focus on the people sitting right in front of us. 

Acceptance leads to agency…in any situation.  Remember the sky when your brain wants to tell you it's too hard. 😉 

Hit reply and tell me how you will practice acceptance during the next few weeks.

I’ll be cheering you on and watching the beautiful winter sky. 

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