The Acceptance of Acceptance

Today, many see that we are on the verge of a great awakening for humanity. We are emerging from darkness; we are awakening from slumber. But, this awakening has not always been easy and many of us continue to struggle with pain and discomfort time and time again until we wonder, “What are these energies? If they are enlightenment and greater Peace, Love, and Joy, why do I hurt? What do I fear? Why can’t I grasp them?”

These energies are the Acceptance of Acceptance.

This seems redundant. Acceptance is simply that – acceptance. What is there to not accept about acceptance? So, we grapple with doubt and confusion and the pain of it all over and over again, all the while wondering why we can’t experience the new energies – energies that aren’t new at all. They’re as old as the cosmos itself.

Acceptance is its own energy, distinct from the energy of human love or anger or happiness or any other human emotion that one experiences. To accept something, one must embrace it wholly and without reservation or it isn’t acceptance at all. It’s an “all or nothing” deal.

We’ve all experienced acceptance before. We’ve all had that flash of pure understanding and allowance for the expression of another individual or circumstance. We’ve come to fully embrace it even if for only a moment, and in that moment, we’ve opened the door to Divine Love and have let the energies of it flow. But, how many of us have paused in the middle of that flow of energy and said, “Wait a minute! I have my rights to protect, my honor to defend, my point to make.” Then, just as quickly and thoroughly, that energy of acceptance has seemed to disappear. It really hasn’t gone anywhere; you’ve merely stepped out of its flow.

Acceptance is an energy in which there is no doubt, confusion, justification, validation, compromise, value judgment, or limitation of any kind. It doesn’t require understanding it or pondering what’s right about it or getting it to “fit” in any manner into the pigeonholes of identification of our lives in any way. Acceptance is entire, whole, and complete or not at all. So, the instant you step into the energies of doubt or defense or non-acceptance of any kind, you step out of the flow of the energies of acceptance.

That’s when you react to perceptions of limitation. That’s when you experience pain. That’s when you experience any number of negative human emotions. But, always, regardless of what you experience, you have desire – desire to once again experience the core energy of Divine Love which powers the energy of Acceptance. So you waffle back and forth between, or in and out of pain/peace, anger/joy, doubt/surety, confusion/clarity, loss/gain, disorientation/ centeredness. You struggle with grasping something that is well within your reach – that you once held, and then let go.

You grapple with the voice of ego that says, “How can I prove to someone else how ‘right’ the feeling of acceptance is when all that can be seen is injustice? How can I explain to someone else how I feel when I can’t define it myself? How can I allow this situation to continue when I know it’s wrong? Why does this feeling of acceptance feel so secure when I have nothing solid to stand on? How can I convey how “right” acceptance is in this world of ‘zero tolerance’?” All that ego understands of acceptance is that it’s a form of surrender or giving up or fear of conflict. It is ego that wants to change things based on what it perceives as true or right or just. It is ego that wants to “fix” things when, in the spiritual realm, nothing “wrong” exists. It is ego that labels, defines, and judges.

You step in and out of the energies of acceptance and expend tremendous amounts of energy trying to grasp and hold that which cannot be held, defined or limited in any way and you wonder why the energies of acceptance are so tough to experience. Acceptance isn’t tough at all. It’s one of the easiest and most gentle and comfortable ways of being. It is our natural way of Being. The difficulty lies in the release of ego and all its false gifts, false promises, and false perceptions.

In today’s energies you are experiencing Acceptance. It is a flow of energy – not a stream unto itself, but more like a current of water through an ocean of other energies – warm, gently flowing, without “true” direction or purpose but meaningful nonetheless. You may be stepping in and out of this current and when you do, you can experience pain, confusion, doubt, a tendency to argue, disrupted sleep patterns, an indefinable sense of “dis”ease or discomfort. Take heart. You are learning to let go. You are learning to surrender.

This surrender is not rolling over and playing dead as in, “Surrender, Dorothy” (Wizard of Oz). Think of it as letting go as you’d redeem a ticket for admission to a show or a seat on an airline. Think of it as redeeming a coupon for a discount or to claim a prize. So, in simple terms, you can think of surrender as redemption…and the Grace of God is merciful.

And So It Is.

Ronnie
10/20/2007