Accept today

Sometimes, what you expect arrives. Sometimes it doesn’t. Accept it anyway.

There are days when the rain comes and days full of sun. Accept each day anyway.

Sometimes your effort yields results. Impact. Accolades. Sometimes your efforts are ordinary. Mundane. Unseen. Or unsatisfying. Accept it all anyway.

I once read “what if ‘joy’ were the only success metric?” How would you live? How would you align your actions? What would you prioritize?

There are days that messages like this one may arrive to you with an eye roll. And there are days when they’re exactly what your soul requires. Whatever this day is for you, accept it. In cynicism, in sincerity, and in simplicity… accept it anyway.

There is so much in motion that we cannot understand. Our minds yearn to understand, comprehend, categorize, and proceed forward towards resolution. Some days are not days for resolution, and we can accept them anyway.

Our minds long for quantifiable success - win / lose, more / less, achieve / fail. It can take time and practice to release our grasp on what is quantifiable and make room for what just is. Accept it all anyway.

What if - just for today - we accepted what is? Whatever it is. Whatever we do or don’t do. Whatever we achieve or don’t achieve. Whatever we understand or don’t understand.

Simple, sincere acceptance.

There are days for action. For rallying. For repair. Each of these days will arrive. But, just for today, allow yourself to recharge rather than resist. Allow your energy to lighten rather than tighten. And allow yourself to accept. To breathe in and breathe out. To welcome your shoulders to lower. And your feet to ground more deeply into the earth.

Just for today, be right here. And accept the absence of resolution. Accept the in between-ness. Accept the falling rain. Accept the clouds.

Just for today, mama. Just for you.