Acceptance = Repentance

What if acceptance is the key to repentance? 

When we fully 100% accept exactly where we are, right at this moment, we stop running, hiding and fighting and slow down long enough to examine what is really going on. 

When we are running, hiding and fighting our demons and our struggles, we often get stuck, unable to move forward and make the changes we truly want. 

Acceptance of our whole selves, strengths and weaknesses, good and bad, we create the space in which we can make the lasting changes we all desire. We take complete responsibility for ALL of it because we accept that it exists, and then we shift. 

We turn away from what we don't want and make the changes we do. 

We grow and become who we really want to be. 

And isn't that what repentance is?