During the day, we can pause where situations must be met and decisions made, and renew the simple request "Thy will, not mine, be done."
Today I am grateful...
- for dinner and a meeting with Zane and Matt. Matt got some new cuteness spectacles.
- that a year has passed since hurricane Katrina
- that Hayden brought a friend (an Earthperson) to a meeting which led to him (the friend) bringing someone that probably needs the program badly
- that my sister has such wonderful insight into the program of AA and addiction in general. Her son needs your prayers if you are so inclined.
- for the incredible rain and thunder last night which washed the Earth and brought cool temperatures
- that the truth gets eked out, sometimes in small amounts, sometimes in larger amounts
- that I grew up in a smallish town half-way between Possum Trot and Monkey's Eyebrow
If at these points our emotional disturbances happens to be great, we will more surely keep our balance provided we remember, and repeat to ourselves, a particular prayer or phrase that has appealed to us in our reading or meditation. Just saying it over and over will often enable us to clear a channel choked up with anger, fear, frustration or misunderstanding, and permit us to return to the surest help of all--our search for God's will, not our own, in the moment of stress. ~12 & 12, pp. 102-103
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