If alcoholism were just a physical allergy, like asthma or hay fever, it would be easy for us, by taking a skin test with alcohol to find out whether or not we're alcoholics. But alcoholism is not just a physical allergy. It's also a mental allergy or obsession. After we've become alcoholics, we can still tolerate alcohol physically for quite a while, although we suffer a little more after each binge and each time it takes a little longer to get over the hangovers. Do I realize that since I have become an alcoholic, I cannot tolerate alcohol mentally at all ?
Meditation for the Day ~
The world doesn't need super men or women, but super-natural people. People who will turn the self out of their lives and let Divine Power work through them. Let inspiration take the place of aspiration. Seek to grow spiritually, rather than to acquire fame and riches. Our chief ambition should be to be used by God. The Divine Force is sufficient for all the spiritual work in the world. God only needs the instruments for His use. His instruments can remake the world.
Prayer for the Day ~
I pray that I may be an instrument of the Divine Power. I pray that I may do my share in remaking the world.
Hazelden
(Let it be a God or Higher Power of your own understanding)
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Progress not perfection.. & Practice makes Progress!
The world doesn't need super men or women, but super-natural people. People who will turn the self out of their lives and let Divine Power work through them. Let inspiration take the place of aspiration. Seek to grow spiritually, rather than to acquire fame and riches. Our chief ambition should be to be used by God. The Divine Force is sufficient for all the spiritual work in the world. God only needs the instruments for His use. His instruments can remake the world.
Gosh, Yes! I need to calm down, chill out & remember humility. I've been 'trying really hard' all week & got myself into a right state. Missed work & everything cuz tried so hard. I have to remember to keep it simple & be grateful for the small & stable things I have in my life. It's only me 'trying too hard' that creates the chaos. Someone knock me in the back of the knees so I tumble to the floor & remember to pray & ask for guidance.. think, Think, THINK.. with those pauses in between.. Essential pauses. Must remember to fall to my own knees & ask for help when I need it. I am not Superwoman! Thanks for your inspiration too, Tuggboat. Danielle :)
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Progress not perfection.. & Practice makes Progress!
I haven't said this prayer for a while. I forgot what it was and have never quite memorized it. I got lost a few weeks ago with all the striving. Like a squirrel I was gathering all the nuts i could get my hands on for the always hard winter and the nearing deluge of taxes. Somewhere in my prudent preperation I lost the part of me that seeks to do God's will. This prayer had always been apart of my spiritual return:
Prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury,pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen
I know its Christian but its in AA and Alanon literature. Thanks for firing the old brain cell. :)
Hi all: Tugboat that is so funny you wrote down that prayer! I was just thinking of the same thing!!!!! I can remember "singing " that at church! Always loved it! (and they loved my voice!!haha)
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