Acceptance (verb)

The first time I read this concept was in the book “The Servant” by James Hunter. Love as a noun is very limited in its purpose in our lives. Because either it exists for someone or something or it doesn’t. And it seems that we can’t do anything about it. How about using it as a verb instead? Love could be something that we “do” or choose to do instead of something that happens “to” us. And that changes everything in our lives and in the lives of people who come in contact with us. Because now we have a choice and it’s no longer a compulsion.

I feel it’s the same thing about “acceptance”. What if we start using it like a verb? Would we be able to give the biggest gift to anyone and everyone in our lives. Because we expect this gift from everyone around us. We want them to accept us as we are - in all our strengths and limitations, weaknesses and shortcomings. But we expect that they change according to how we want them to be. What would happen inside us if we could start accepting everyone as they are…everything around us as it is? Maybe that’s when we will be able to truly change it…something to really think about…