Each and every one of us has been born with qualities that cannot be altered and into circumstances beyond our control. The question is, how will you approach the unchangeables in your life? Will you learn to accept and live with them (and maybe even appreciate them)? Or will you allow bitterness and resentment over those unchangeables fester in the depths of your heart? The choice you make will have a profound impact on the purpose and contentment you find in life.

1 Peter 5:7 - "Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you."

Psalm 68:5 - "Father to the fatherless, defender of widows— this is God, whose dwelling is holy."

Matthew 25:15 - "And to one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one, to each according to his own ability; and immediately he went on a journey."

1 Thessalonians 5:11 - "Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing."

James 3:14-16 - "But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not be arrogant and so lie against the truth. This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, natural, demonic. For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there is disorder and every evil thing."

Genesis 3:19 - "By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.”

James 4:14 - "You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes."

Psalm 90:12 - "Teach us to number our days so that we may apply our hearts to wisdom.”

Psalm 139:13-16 - "For You formed my inward parts; You wove me in my mother’s womb. I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are Your works, and my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from You, when I was made in secret, and skillfully wrought in the depths of the earth; Your eyes have seen my unformed substance; and in Your book were all written, the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there was not one of them."

Romans 8:28 - "And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose."

Serenity Prayer (attributed to Reinhold Niebuhr)

Praying for Your Parents (my free printable prayer guide)

The Long Winter (book by Laura Ingalls Wilder)

"How Can I Accept Myself the Way God Made Me" (impactful teaching I first heard at an IBLP seminar)

On Becoming Free Indeed (my review of Jinger Duggar's book )

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