Over a period of drinking years, we've proved to ourselves and to everybody else that we can't stop drinking by our own will power. We have been proved helpless before the power of alcohol. So the only way we could stop drinking was by turning to a Power greater than ourselves. We call that Power God. The time that you really get this program is when you get down on your knees and surrender yourself to God, as you understand Him. Surrender means putting your life into God's hands. Have I made a promise to God that I will try to live the way He wants me to live?
Meditation for the Day
Spirit-power comes from communication with God in prayer and times of quiet meditation. I must constantly seek spirit communication with God. This is a matter directly between me and God. Those who seek it through the medium of the church do not always get the joy and the wonder of spirit communication with God. From this communication comes life, joy, peace, and healing. Many people do not realize the power that can come to them from direct spirit communication.
Prayer for the Day
I pray that I may feel that God's power is mine. I pray that I may be able to face anything through that power.
Today's thought from Hazelden is:
She walks around all day quietly, but underneath it she's electric angry energy inside a passive form. The common woman is as common as a thunderstorm. --Judy Grahn
Many people spend their days in anger and aren't aware of it. The conditions of work and life make many of us angry; we feel powerless to change them, and our frustration angers us more.
The Serenity Prayer asks for "the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference." If we examine our lives fearlessly, we may find many things that are in our power to change.
Since we cannot change, or do not choose to change some things, we'd do well to accept them, instead of spinning our wheels in unproductive anger or turning the anger in, against ourselves. And when we summon the courage to change the things we can, our lives will bless us.
Today I'll look at anger as something I've chosen, instead of something inevitable. Is it covering fear? How can I resolve it?
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Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. ~Buddha
Although I read this yesterday and thought it was good, I can see now how this pertains to my life today and how I should have paid better attention to it yesterday!
I prayed all day yesterday trying to accept the fact that my husband was driving me CRAZY!!!! I felt the little things he was nagging me about were so ridiculous and I tried to convince him that he should chill out a little!!! Pick your battles type thing.....
Well, overnight perhaps Ive grown up a bit!! haha
Today I will make a conscious effort not to let the drippy kitchen faucet drip in a bowl and drive him nuts! (even if I think its his fault cuz he should fix the dang thing)
I will take the laundry upstairs after I fold it and put it away right away (even tho he's walked past it a thousand times!)
I will make the bed when I get up (even if he's still laying it!)
Truly I am being facetious, courage to change is my motto for today....I will try to remember to not do or do all the little things I can, within reason, to make life a little more harmonious!!!
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"We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have. "
