Is Acceptance Just Resignation?

Published: Sept. 25, 2020, 2:47 a.m.

A friend recently posted a question in a Facebook Group, about ways to gain freedom in life, so you can choose how you want to live it. “What has most helped you to gain freedom in your life to choose exactly how you want to live it?”. My response was one word. Acceptance. Of course I had to follow through with a short sentence because I really can’t stop at one word! Acceptance brings me peace and freedom. After posting my response, I pondered about whether acceptance was just a state of resigning myself to living with the shackles of my chronic disease. Or was it more than that?