Reflections for Beginners

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Reflections for Beginners
from
'Hour To Hour - The First 30 Days'
- by Shelly Marshall
the author of 'Day By Day' & other Meditation Books

* * *

The best decision

you have ever made

is to opt for the health

that sobriety and clean time

will give you.

~ ~ ~

If the decision was someone else's

then your decision to accept it

was the best one ever made.

~ ~ ~

You will gain

a new perspective on life

and for this

you need to thank yourself.

~ ~ ~

As I thank myself,

I also thank any others,

including a Higher Power,

as I understand Him / Her,

for giving me another hour

without

mind-affecting chemicals.

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

[caressa]

Reflections for Beginners
from
'Hour To Hour - The First 30 Days'
- by Shelly Marshall
the author of 'Day By Day' & other Meditation Books

* * *

Is yesterday

something that you worry about?

Some yesterday?

~ ~ ~

Whatever its mistakes,

faults, blunders, or pains

it has passed

forever beyond your control.

You cannot erase

a single word or deed

from your "yesterdays."

~ ~ ~

On this road of recovery,

we find it best

to simply worry about

right now.

~ ~ ~

Right now I am safe.

Right now I am abstinent.

Right now I am not harming myself.

Right now I am relying on

a Power Greater then myself

to see me through this.

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

[caressa]

Reflections for Beginners
from
'Hour To Hour - The First 30 Days'
- by Shelly Marshall
the author of 'Day By Day' & other Meditation Books

* * *

It is our experience in recovery

that a Power greater then ourselves

places the answers before us

that we need to hear

when we need to hear them.

~ ~ ~

Often we don't like the answers

and ignore the reality of them.

But we can face reality now,

if we choose.

~ ~ ~

Please give me the strength

to see this through

to the next hour.

~ ~ ~

Help me face

the reality of recovery

and not slip back

to the insanity of using.

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

[caressa]

Reflections for Beginners
from
'Hour To Hour - The First 30 Days'
- by Shelly Marshall
the author of 'Day By Day' & other Meditation Books

* * *


When there is no way

to get away from us,

when we can't get

high enough

to turn off the pain anymore,

when we are worried and confused,

then maybe it is time

to try another way.

~ ~ ~

Right now I surrender

to another way.

~ ~ ~

Right now I will not get high

and will walk

this new road.

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

[caressa222]

Good food for thought. Take the words and apply them to your life.