The Facts To Fit...

[caressa]

Each Day a New Beginning.

We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't, it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions. --Jessamyn West,

To live fully and creatively, to contribute what is only ours to give, requires that we be receptive, wholly, to the reverberations of each present moment. Even anticipation of what may transpire next can prejudice our minds, our level of awareness. Preconceptions cloud our senses. They prevent the actual situation from being fully realized. And it is only in the now, as sensed moment by moment, that we find our cues to proceed along the path chosen for us.

As we grow more comfortable with Step Three, daily turning our lives and wills over to the care of God, we'll see how much more rewarding our experiences are. We'll see, too, how much greater are our own contributions. Preconceptions of any situation, persons, anticipated experience, dulls the magic, the depth of the moment. And only when we attune ourselves to the invitation of the moment do we give of ourselves, wholly. Our partnership with God lives now, as we go forth in this moment.

I will look to each moment with childish eyes. I'll find joy and contentment.

[majestyjo]

We have a disease of perception. How others saw things, wasn't always how I looked at things. I was a hard task master and my sponsor(s) said, "Give yourself a break."

Life is full of circles, and within each circle is another circle. It has been my experience, that things keep coming around, until such a time as I have learned the lesson that I need to learn. Just because something happened in recovery, doesn't mean it doesn't have to be changed and looked at again. As I grow, my awareness grows and it is time for another 4th Step.

[majestyjo]

This has been my thought lately, we need to be open to receive. Things my come in a form we don't recognize or comes in a shape we reject or comes disguised as something we don't want a part of. We need to be accepting of the fact that our God not only knows what we need, He supplies those needs. If we are left wanting, it maybe because you were not willing to pick up what He offered you. Perhaps you have left gifts by the wayside and thought that God had forsaken you.

H.O.W. the program works. Honesty, Open Mindedness and Willing.

[majestyjo]

Had problems with perception. More with depth perception. When I was pLaying pool, my vision was blurry. I am waiting for a call back from eye specialist.