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my days can be filled with minor difficulties that must be dealt with, somehow. okay, true confession time, i am not really that in to writing this morning. in fact my plan was to head to work and do it there, basically deferring this activity until i forgot, BUT just as i got out of bed without praying this morning, i decided that the desire to change what i do, is based on something more than my desire for recovery, so here you go, warts and all, a blog about dealing with the minor annoyances that are life on life's terms.
i am certainly glad that the reading does not suggest that i ignore them, or even worse, at least this morning. suggest that each time i get a bit of a bump in the road of my daily plans, that i look for an opportunity to grow, from the situation. no the reading suggest that i pause, take a breath and ask for the ability to COPE with the situation at hand, from the POWER that fuels my recovery. which in and of itself, is certainly a different way for me to respond. it is true that the power to cope, may just be, finding the humor in the situation, or ignoring them, knowing that this too shall pass, or it may be to bully my way through my feelings and get to the other side. what the reading does not suggest, is anything but pausing and asking for the coping skills i need.
so although this is brief, it is all that is coming to me, this cold and still dark Wednesday morning. i could say if anything else occurs to me, as i walk through today, i will come back and add it, but experience shows that while that if does happen, rarely do i come back and append what i have written, who knows, it is after all a great day to be clean and to be a part of a recovering community.

∞ DT ∞