i learned how to accept life as it is from my father. 36 , he did not teach me acceptance when he was strong and healthy, but rather when he was 37 and ill.
my father was 38 a strong man who loved being active, but a terrible illness 39 all that away. now he can no longer walk, and he must sit quietly in a chair all day. even talking is 40 . one night, i went to visit him with my sisters. we started 41 about life, and i told them about one of my 42 . i said that we must very often give things up 43 we grow --- our youth, our beauty, our friends --- but it always 44 that after we give something up, we gain something new in its place. then suddenly my father 45 up. he said, “but, peter, i gave up 46 ! what did i gain?” i thought and thought, but i couldn’t think of anything to say. 47 , he answered his own question: “i 48 the love of my family,” i looked at my sisters and saw tears in their eyes, along with hope and thankfulness.
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