Comments on: Acceptance – Diabetes 365, Year 2 – Day 83

By: Lee Ann Thill

Lee Ann Thill — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 05:12:32 +0000

I always wish I could hold someone’s hand and lead them to acceptance, but I’m not really sure how I even came to it. I can look back and see lots of those baby steps though, things that didn’t necessarily register with me at the time as having much significance. All those little insignificant things eventually added up to something pretty great.

As for defeat, I felt most defeated, the harder I fought. It’s one of the ironies about learning to make peace with diabetes.

By: Jerry Nairn

Jerry Nairn — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 19:21:44 +0000

You’re often way more open and deep than I ever want to get on the internet, Courtney. Thanks for being out there.
I think I have acceptance without understanding. You seem to want to understand why you have diabetes before you accept it.
There may not be a reason. There may be a reason we don’t understand.
To me, “knowing why” is something I’ve decided I can’t do anything about. It is what it is.

Have you seen “Slumdog Millionaire”? That may seem like an odd question, even if you have seen it. Anyway, I think there were some profound things in the different ways the two brothers related to God.
Depending on your perspective, you could have seen it as pro or con religion, faith, God.

By: Scott K. Johnson

Scott K. Johnson — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 06:04:47 +0000

Courtney, this is a great post. I think it is something that many of us living with diabetes deal with. I certainly do, and have not “figured it out” yet. I guess what I often come back to is that I understand that I will often not understand God’s work. I also humbly think to myself “who the heck am I to question God’s plan for me?”.

I know, I know. Cliche and SO “heard that crap before”. But it is what it comes back to for me.