Getting Needs Met

[caressa]

God's hope for me is that I grow in my capacity to love. I can plant many seeds today through acts of kindness."

Daily Meditations on Spirituality in Recovery.

This tells me that when I focus on others, plant the seed of recovery and detach from the great I am and trying to get MY needs met, I can have time and energy to help others. God meets my needs. I don't need to focus on getting them for myself. He promises to be there for me. Seeing as I am not getting the daily readings here, I can go to another site or pick up my own books which I did today, when the day is almost done.

I didn't copy and paste today, I typed things out. That maybe the same thing, but the words I posted where what I needed to say and some people say it so much better than I do.

I need to share my recovery. I need to extend love and kindness to those who visit the site. If I am not getting my needs met here, then I will have to go to a source where they will be met. That doesn't mean I will stop coming here. It just means that I will visit two if not three sites to get the spiritual food I need.

[caressa]

Was trying to share this earlier, and glad to have it affirmed in today.

I was thinking, God meets my needs, but sometimes I don't always wait on Him, and try to do for myself and make things happen.

[majestyjo]

January 02, 2015

Take a deep breath and talk to God

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"Sometimes when we pray, a remarkable thing happens: We find the means, ways, and energies to perform tasks far beyond our capacities."

Basic Text, p. 44

Coping successfully with life's minor annoyances and frustrations is sometimes the most difficult skill we have to learn in recovery. We are faced with small inconveniences daily. From untangling the knots in our children's shoelaces to standing in line at the market, our days are filled with minor difficulties that we must somehow deal with.

If we're not careful, we may find ourselves dealing with these difficulties by bullying our way through each problem or grinding our teeth while giving ourselves a stern lecture about how we should handle them. These are extreme examples of poor coping skills, but even if we're not this bad there's probably room for improvement.

Each time life presents us with another little setback to our daily plans, we can simply take a deep breath and talk to the God of our understanding. Knowing that we can draw patience, tolerance, or whatever we need from that Power, we find ourselves coping better and smiling more often.


Just for Today: I will take a deep breath and talk to my God whenever I feel frustrated.

A way to have my needs met, especially if I don't know what it is I need.  Take it to my God in prayer.  I did a meditation on the evening this meditation was posted with my crystal cards and the card said, "Clarity."  I found myself asking, but not really clear on what I was asking and not accepting of the thoughts I was getting, instead of just surrendering all and opening a channel to my God and letting His Word come through.  I kept getting in the way.

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