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bluidkiti · 08-19-2023, 06:41 AM

August 19

Having spent the better part of my life trying either to relive the past or experience the future before it arrives, I have come to believe that in between these two extremes is peace.

~Anonymous

How hard it often seems to quiet our mind so we can experience the present. We know that we’re missing God’s message now when we're obsessively caught in thoughts of another time. But too often we allow them to plague us anyway.

We're not failures if we need to repeatedly remind ourselves to be quiet, but we may think we are. It might be well for each of us to observe a small child who is learning to walk. She stumbles and falls and tries again and again, often with peals of laughter.

We, too, are children trying to master a new skill. That we didn't learn how to quiet our mind in earlier years is unimportant. We're here, now, and the opportunity to practice this skill will present itself many times today. And we will become proficient at knowing peace - with practice.

Today I'll willingly quiet my mind rather than let my thoughts carry me astray.

Today's reading is from the book In God's Care: Daily Meditations on Spirituality in Recovery*

08-19-2023, 06:41 AM	#19
bluidkiti Administrator Join Date: Aug 2013 Posts: 71,341	August 19 Having spent the better part of my life trying either to relive the past or experience the future before it arrives, I have come to believe that in between these two extremes is peace. ~Anonymous How hard it often seems to quiet our mind so we can experience the present. We know that we’re missing God’s message now when we're obsessively caught in thoughts of another time. But too often we allow them to plague us anyway. We're not failures if we need to repeatedly remind ourselves to be quiet, but we may think we are. It might be well for each of us to observe a small child who is learning to walk. She stumbles and falls and tries again and again, often with peals of laughter. We, too, are children trying to master a new skill. That we didn't learn how to quiet our mind in earlier years is unimportant. We're here, now, and the opportunity to practice this skill will present itself many times today. And we will become proficient at knowing peace - with practice. Today I'll willingly quiet my mind rather than let my thoughts carry me astray. Today's reading is from the book In God's Care: Daily Meditations on Spirituality in Recovery* __________________ "No matter what you have done up to this moment, you get 24 brand-new hours to spend every single day." --Brian Tracy AA gives us an opportunity to recreate ourselves, with God's help, one day at a time. --Rufus K. When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. --Franklin D. Roosevelt We stay sober and clean together - one day at a time! God says that each of us is worth loving.

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