Acceptance

    

 I saw this picture and it began speaking something to me, like see how the man and the dog are different from each other and yet they are embracing each other into each other.

                                #Acceptance is rare

Acceptance

Accepting someone for who and what they are is different from accepting someone for who and what you feel them to be. Coz what you feel is not always what is. Yeah yeah emotions are one point of honesty that can guide you, but at the same time emotions are one point of a lie that can mislead you. The driver of your emotions speaks a lot of what your emotions really are.

Acceptance is a need for every person. The funny thing is, acceptance begins way before you're born, before you're completely formed in your mother's womb. There's a point of acceptance that happens when a mother finds out that she's pregnant. Honourably, she and those around her are filled with joy [fruit of the Spirit] that she's been gifted with life. Right there, there's acceptance happening. And you know what actually, you're a product of acceptance that happened between your mother and father. If they didn't accept each other and the intimacy they shared, you wouldn't have been conceived. 

Perhaps you are there and saying you were conceived out of an accidental intimacy, true that, but hey listen: if you went further to be conceived after that accident, and you went further to be born, I wanna let you know that somebody accepted you buddy🙂 God accepted you before even your mom or dad accepted you. Life and death belongs to God, He would have denied you and never let you be conceived even. But that you are here now reading this, you are a testimony of acceptance buddy😇

God made us social beings, so don't tell me I don't need to want to feel accepted where I am by the people God has existed in that place. I need to feel accepted, I need to feel I belong to a family, some friends, some people. I need to feel I belong to a particular community and country. I need to feel accepted.

There's always a gap you leave in a person when you make them feel out of place. They need acceptance, you too need acceptance. But let me tell you this: accept yourself first before wanting others to accept you. How can we accept something that you yourself can't accept either. Accept yourself, love yourself, you're perfect as you are.

When I looked at that picture shared with you, it took me into a conversation and I was like, "wow that was me Jesus. I was messy and different from you, you had enough reasons to go pick someone else than me. But you came for me, again you accepted me as messy and different as I was. Yep you needed me perfect, but you didn't want me perfect. You let me in and you perfected me and you called me perfect, awww🤭 You took me in the way you saw me, and am just glad the way you saw me is the way you felt for me too. Your emotions were true for me."

You see, it makes a huge difference when you accept someone for who they really are. Life is built on honesty. If you wanna have amazing moments with that person, accept him/her for who he or she is. Begin from there, she or he might be part or totally not what you desired. But the beauty of seeing someone as they really are gives room for transformation. We transform in a place of belonging, we are comfortable to let you see our true colours in a place of belonging, in a place where we are accepted just the way we are. Am not saying settle for anyone, but realize the environment of potential we people create when there's a sense of belonging. Until we accept each other, we won't be enough nor see the potential of enough in each other for each other.