A.A. teaches us to take it easy. We learn how to relax and to stop worrying about the past or the future, to give up our resentments and hates and tempers, to stop being critical of people, and to try to help them instead. That's what "Easy Does It" means. So in the time that's left to me to live, I'm going to try to take it easy, to relax and not to worry, to try to be helpful to others, and to trust God. For what's left of my life, is my motto going to be "Easy Does It"?
Meditation for the Day
I must overcome myself before I can truly forgive other people for injuries done to me. The self in me cannot forgive injuries. The very thought of wrongs means that my self is in the foreground. Since the self cannot forgive, I must overcome my selfishness. I must cease trying to forgive those who fretted and wronged me. It is a mistake for me even to think about these injuries. I must aim at overcoming myself in my daily life and then I will find there is nothing in me that remembers injury, because the only thing injured, my selfishness, is gone.
Prayer for the Day
I pray that I may hold no resentments. I pray that my mind may be washed clean of all past hates and fears.
Hazelden
(Let it be a God or Higher Power of your own understanding)
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Interesting...Never thought of selfishness that way! Good read for me. I trying very hard to get past all the anger I have for a few people. One is easier than the other as sometimes things are done in the past for a good reason. Thinking here of my mom, her leaving, and doing the most unselfish thing she could have done!!! I would have been the wild child with seven kids!!!! (was all that but only two kids!!!lol)
Thanks D
Lani
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