[MajestyJo]

Wednesday, September 4, 2013

You are reading from the book Each Day a New Beginning

For all the sadness of closure, there is a new and joyful unfolding in the process of becoming.
—Mary Casey

We must let go of people, places, memories, and move on to new experiences. The doors of the past must be closed before we can enter those that are opening to us today. However, no experience is gone forever. All of our experiences are threaded together, each one contributing to the events that claim our attention now.

Recovery has offered us a chance to be aware of our process of becoming. With each day, each experience, each new understanding, we are advancing along the path of personal growth. Let us remember that each of us has a particular path, like no other. Thus, our experiences are ours alone. We need not envy what comes to someone else.

Life is unfolding for us. The pain of the present may be necessary for the pleasure of tomorrow. We can accept the unfolding. Our inner selves have a goal; experiences of the past must be left in the past; experiences at hand will lead us to our destination today.

I am moving and changing and growing, at the right pace. The process can be trusted. What is right for me will come to me. I will let the joy of becoming warm me.

How true! So many times there were more days than money until the end of the month, and things just happened. One time, I made two double payments on my magazine subscription and I got a cheque for $30. and another time, I was doing a meditation on the floor, sitting on my rug. I used my Sacred Path Cards by Jamie Sams. I pray that I got what I needed, my card said, "Say thank it is already on it's way. As I stood up, the phone rang, and it was my friend asking if I could babysit her daughter for $20. and a couple of bags of groceries.

My God works in my life, sometimes in spite of me.