![]() ![]() ![]() The course we travel is the one we chart. We will profit from taking all experiences in our stride. People or situations need never thwart us. The many barriers that get in our way can strengthen our reliance on God if we’ll let them. Part of the process of our growth is learning to slide past the negative situations that confront us, coming to understand that we are in this life to fulfill a unique purpose. Nonresistance is the safer way to chart our daily course.īowing with the wind, flowing with the tide, eases the steps we need to take, the steps that will carry us to our personal fulfillment. No battle is worth the damage to the psyche that nearly any battle can cause. They frequently trigger an emotional relapse. They often push us to behavior we’re not proud of. Our struggles with other people always take their toll on us. Sometimes it’s worse to win a fight than to lose. Help me to not become rigid.Īction for the Day: Today, I’ll ask two friends to tell me how I may be rigid. Help me stay open to new ideas and attitudes. Prayer for the Day: Higher Power, help me stay fresh and alive. ![]() Opinions and ideas are like a strong tree: the base is strong, but leaves change with the seasons. At times, it’s scary to give up old ways and old opinions, but this is what allows new growth. Then we see the world and our program in different ways. And as we grow, more of the fog of our denial clears away. The ways we work the Steps should change for us as the years go by. The foolish and the dead never change their opinions. I’ll work today to be trusting and trustworthy, but I’ll not expect too much of anybody, including myself. Above all, our real trust should be in our Higher Power. In our 12 Step living, we should work to develop trust in both ourselves and others, but no be hurt or disappointed when things go wrong. All of us have weaknesses that can keep us from being what we know to be our best. ![]() We can work to develop our trustworthiness, but it is never high enough, even with the strongest souls. We can have little doubt that the spiritual presence behind everything is infallible and supreme.Īs human beings, we know that we can only be trusted in certain ways. We do have a Higher Power in whom we can have absolute trust. We can find our answer in the spiritual side of the program. How much should we trust other people? This is an important question, because many of us have erred in both directions: we’ve trusted people too much or not enough. Having found the shoes that fit, he ought to step into them and walk with new confidence that he is at last on the right track. Human beings are never quite alike, so each of us, when making an inventory, will need to determine what his individual character defects are. Nor should we demand anyone’s special type for ourselves, because experience suggests that we are apt to receive whatever may be the most useful for our own needs. This is why I think we should question no one’s transformation–whether it be sudden or gradual. There is only one sure test of all spiritual experiences: “By their fruits, ye shall know them.” I pray that I may be willing to go out of my way to be of service. Try to do your day’s work the way you believe God wants you to do it, never shirking any responsibility and often going out of your way to be of service. But is that not how you so often serve God? View your day’s work in this light. A master would feel that he was being ill served by such a servant. Nobody likes a servant who avoids extra work, who complains about being called from one task to do any less enjoyable. When I see any members sitting alone, do I put myself out to be nice to them, or do I stay among my own special group of friends and leave them out in the cold? Are all new A.A.s my responsibility? are vague? Do I make it a habit to talk to all new members myself, or do I often leave that to someone else? I may not be able to help them, but, then, again it may be something that I might say that would put them on the right track. group, do I make a special effort to make them feel at home? Do I put myself out to listen to them, even if their ideas of A.A. So I ask God to remove my anger and truly set me free. I must keep reminding myself that I am human, that I am doing the best I can, even when that best is sometimes poor. When I am angry, my anger is always self-centered. I believe that there are no exceptions to the axiom. What a freedom I felt when this passage was pointed out to me! Suddenly I saw that I could do something about my anger, I could fix me, instead of trying to fix them. If somebody hurts us and we are sore, we are in the wrong also. ![]()
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