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Post by SunnyGirl on Dec 31, 2012 15:58:35 GMT -5
The quote above was taken from today's reading in "Each Day a New Beginning" and it really hit home with me. After all these years I still have moments when I struggle and wonder why. It's times like this that I have to pray and honestly look at what I am missing in my recovery.
I've made progress and that's what's important, but I need to keep striving to do better. My goal is to be able to stop and think before I act and let go of reacting in a panic.
It's a new year ahead and it will unfold one day at a time and I'm going to strive for progress not perfection.
Are you happy with your progress... is perfection always out of reach? Please share.....
Peace on the journey, SG
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Post by caressa on Jan 1, 2013 18:23:21 GMT -5
Thanks for sharing SG, it is more about acceptance than progress not perfection. If I am accepting of what is, I can make progress. Accepting of my son's disease as well as my own, and live each day one day at a time.
My biggest problem is not being able to do what I want to do, especially when I want to do it. The mind is willing, but the flesh is weak. It is certainly a time for prayer and meditation. A time of surrender, honesty and acceptance, my God's will, not mine be done.
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Post by majestyjo on Oct 16, 2014 15:49:32 GMT -5
I do make progress if I can find acceptance. As SG quotes the program, "Progress not perfection." We aim toward it, we can't expect to achieve it.
One of my defects of character was the fact that I felt that any less was not acceptable and I put high expectations on myself. I had to learn to learn to lower them, so they were attainable. I had to not project them onto others. I had to learn to not project expectations onto others who were not capable of meeting them, including myself.
It is old news, but forever true.
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Post by caressa222 on Jul 11, 2020 23:34:57 GMT -5
What comes to mind are words from my sponsor, "You need to learn to crawl before you can walk.
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