Today I recognize forgiveness as the quickest road to freedom and serenity. When I forgive my past, I release myself from the grip that it has on my present and on my future. It is difficult to live in peace today if I am psychically engaged in yesterday's battles. But I cannot forgive and release
I will rely on what I have learned to get me through; I will work the tools of my program. Just for today, I will make every effort to practice program principles in all my affairs. In this way I can strengthen my recovery and grow in emotional sobriety. I want the tools of my
I’m going to make certain that I get the down time to reflect and recover. Recovery can be exhausting, the emotional work I am doing is just that, work, and I need to allow myself extra rest and quiet in order to process all that I am going through. When I’m rested the extra the
Forgiveness is what enables a person to become whole again rather than to live broken. It is perhaps a moment when we choose or, by seeming coincidence meet choice along life's path between neurotic preoccupation with the pain of life and spiritual growth; a moment when the spirit guides the flesh. I forgive someone who
I will take extra good care of myself today. Only I know what really, really pleases me. My ability to feel enjoyment, relies heavily on the many tiny ways I care for myself. If I skip over these, if I wear myself out unnecessarily, withhold tiny pleasures that would be just as easy to let
I will have faith today, faith in the unseen, faith that my sincere actions will produce good results, faith that the heart and goodness that I put into my life and relationships will bear fruit. I will take an action and let go of the results, knowing that the energy of that action, will be
When I resist the moment, the here and now, I disconnect myself from the source of all life and energy. When I embrace the moment, I am part of its creative power, I join in its transformation into the next moment and the next and the next. I enter the now. When I love just
There is personal information waiting to be mined inside my pain, parts of me that are being held in silence that long to speak, places within me that want to be felt and understood. Though my sorrow may make me feel like I am falling apart , I know I will not.I am capable of
Holding onto resentment keeps me down. It keeps me constantly preoccupied with what went wrong instead of what went right. Today I recognize that forgiveness is a gift that that benefits not only someone else, but me. It is a gift that releases my own spirit, that restores my own inner peace. If I can