~SPIRITUAL~ A DAY AT A TIME

02/21 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY
Do I waste my time and energy wrestling with situations that aren't actually worth a second thought?  Like Don Quixote, the bemused hero of Spanish literature, do I imagine windmills as menacing giants, battling them until I am ready to drop from exhaustion?  Today, I'll not allow my imagination to build small troubles into big ones.  I'll try to see each situation clearly, giving it only the value and attention it deserves.  HAVE I COME TO BELIEVE, AS THE SECOND OF THE TWELVE STEPS SUGGESTS, THAT A POWER GREATER THAN MYSELF CAN RESTORE ME TO SANITY?

TODAY I PRAY
God, keep my perspective sane.  Help me to avoid aggrandizing petty problems, tying too much significance to casual conversations, making a Vesuvius out of an anthill.  Keep my fears from swelling out of scale, like shadows on a wall.  Restore my values, which became distorted during the days of my chemical involvement.

TODAY I WILL REMEMBER
Sanity is perspective.



I read a quote yesterday that got me thinking.. 

"People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves."  Tyrone Edwards

It made me think...  in AA they say you must believe in a Power higher than yourself.  It doesn't matter who or what that power is.. but you must find one.  Some who don't believe in God will find that power in The Group of AA as a whole.  That the group is stronger than themself.  After reading that quote I think it makes more sense to me now.. 

If you don't have a Higher Power..  find one