โ to receive the rewards of the Twelfth Step, โ
Posted: Tue, Dec 19, 2006 09:49:13 AM
it is vital that i practice the spiritual principles of recovery even when no one is looking.
an excellent reading for an excellent day! even though i agreed to get up long before most normal people in my situation and take a friend to the airport, i am still in a good place. even though, everything i want to happen is happening much slower than i want it to happen, it is still a good day. even though i am beginning to stress about unfinished projects across the board, and i had to buy a new piece of technology that i was unprepared to purchase yesterday, it is still a good day. so a bit of whining, and a bit of surrender while all of you are looking, gets me ready to launch into something deep and meaningful, or so it may seem to me.
so one of my friends keeps telling to walk the talk, for the longest time i thought she was just misquoting one of those "bumper sticker" clichés. well here in the not so fine print, is the same expression almost verbatim, well not quite. anyhow i have heard her saying this for years, i have read this reading at least nine times before and i was clueless until this morning that it was there! there are none so blind.... just to throw yet another trite simple saying around.
so what does that mean to me today, well practicing spiritual principles as a matter of course, instead of having to think about doing it. you know auto-magically doing the next right thing, having the wisdom to know the difference between those things i can change and i cannot change, or forgiving myself for the silly human stuff i do on a daily basis. learning how to trust myself and listening to the voice of my HIGHER POWER moment by moment and all of that stuff. all i have to do is figure out how to do this recovery gig every day, every minute and see what happens, simply complex.
an excellent reading for an excellent day! even though i agreed to get up long before most normal people in my situation and take a friend to the airport, i am still in a good place. even though, everything i want to happen is happening much slower than i want it to happen, it is still a good day. even though i am beginning to stress about unfinished projects across the board, and i had to buy a new piece of technology that i was unprepared to purchase yesterday, it is still a good day. so a bit of whining, and a bit of surrender while all of you are looking, gets me ready to launch into something deep and meaningful, or so it may seem to me.
so one of my friends keeps telling to walk the talk, for the longest time i thought she was just misquoting one of those "bumper sticker" clichés. well here in the not so fine print, is the same expression almost verbatim, well not quite. anyhow i have heard her saying this for years, i have read this reading at least nine times before and i was clueless until this morning that it was there! there are none so blind.... just to throw yet another trite simple saying around.
so what does that mean to me today, well practicing spiritual principles as a matter of course, instead of having to think about doing it. you know auto-magically doing the next right thing, having the wisdom to know the difference between those things i can change and i cannot change, or forgiving myself for the silly human stuff i do on a daily basis. learning how to trust myself and listening to the voice of my HIGHER POWER moment by moment and all of that stuff. all i have to do is figure out how to do this recovery gig every day, every minute and see what happens, simply complex.
∞ DT ∞