~SPIRITUAL NOT RELIGIOUS~ A DAY AT A TIME

01/14 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY
I admitted that I couldn't win the booze and chemical battle on my own.  So I finally began to accept the critically important fact that dependence on a Higher Power could help me achieve what had always seemed impossible.  I stopped running, I stopped fighting.  For the first time, I began accepting.  And for the first time, I began to be really free.  DO I REALIZE THAT IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT KIND OF SHOES I'M WEARING WHEN I'M RUNNING AWAY?

TODAY I PRAY
May I know the freedom that comes with surrender to a Higher Power -- that most important kind of surrender that means neither "giving in" nor "giving up" but "giving over" my will to the will of God.  Like a weary fugitive from spiritual order, may I stop hiding, dodging, running.  May I find peace in surrender, in the knowledge that God wills that I be whole and healthy and He will show me the way.

TODAY I WILL REMEMBER
First surrender, then serenity.