Post by majestyjo on Oct 22, 2016 13:18:34 GMT -5
~ MORNING LIGHT ~ (Meditations to Begin Your Day) ~
You can’t wring your hands and roll up your sleeves at the same time.
~ Pat Schroeder ~
At times you may worry about how well you are doing in recovery. Even if you have not used or abused, you may have thought about drinking or drugging or even awakened from dreams in which you were using. Do such things mean you are not working the program in the right way? If you have not yet started to work on your inventory, made a list of those you have harmed, or made amends to anyone, does that mean you are not doing well in your recovery?
Or maybe you have not accepted the reality of your addiction. Or maybe you do not know why you drank so much and so often or why you did the things you did when you were drunk. Does this mean you do not belong in the program or that you need to figure out the answers to your questions first?
Edith Armstrong once wrote that she conquered worry by thinking of her mind as if it were a telephone. She kept her mind busy with “peace, harmony, health, love and abundance.” Whenever doubt, anxiety, or fear tried to “call” her, “they kept getting a busy signal.”
Rather than worry about attaining perfection in the program, I will concentrate on making progress. I will keep busy so there is no time to worry.
You can’t wring your hands and roll up your sleeves at the same time.
~ Pat Schroeder ~
At times you may worry about how well you are doing in recovery. Even if you have not used or abused, you may have thought about drinking or drugging or even awakened from dreams in which you were using. Do such things mean you are not working the program in the right way? If you have not yet started to work on your inventory, made a list of those you have harmed, or made amends to anyone, does that mean you are not doing well in your recovery?
Or maybe you have not accepted the reality of your addiction. Or maybe you do not know why you drank so much and so often or why you did the things you did when you were drunk. Does this mean you do not belong in the program or that you need to figure out the answers to your questions first?
Edith Armstrong once wrote that she conquered worry by thinking of her mind as if it were a telephone. She kept her mind busy with “peace, harmony, health, love and abundance.” Whenever doubt, anxiety, or fear tried to “call” her, “they kept getting a busy signal.”
Rather than worry about attaining perfection in the program, I will concentrate on making progress. I will keep busy so there is no time to worry.
. I will be back looking for Lin and others.