It has help me to discover info that helped me to understand it more with a scriptual perspective..
In my Life Recovery Bible here is what I found when I was reading Philippians 4:11....
11.Not that I was ever in need, for I have learned how to be content whatever I have.
PHILIPPIANS 4:10-14
Some of us have never accepted the hurtful circumstances of our lives. We may be living in denial to avoid the pain. We continue to struggle against the painful realities, to rebel against who we are or what has happened to us. Others of us have accepted the bad, even to the point of feeling that it's normal and comfortable. And so we repeat the destructive cycles of behavior that follow from it.
The apostle Paul wrote: "I have learned how to be content with whatever I have. know how to live on almost nothing or with every thing. I have learned the secret of living in every situation, whether it is with a full stomach or empty, with plenty or little" (Philippians 4:11-12). When Paul wrote this, he was in a Roman prison waiting to hear if he would be executed. And yet we hear no whining or complaining. Instead, he learned to accept the circumstances he could not change.
The process of recovery is a time of learning to find serenity while also accepting life as it is. Life isn't always fair. It isn't predictable or controllable. It can be wonderfully rich in some ways and terribly diffi cult in others. When we become willing to face our hurts and consider how we have reacted to them, then our discomfort can lead us to break our destructive cycles. Then we can learn to be content with the things we cannot change.
Serenity is having an inner calm in the midst of the ups and downs of life. It involves learning to be content with the things in our lives that cannot be changed.
GOD grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference Amen
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