~SPIRITUAL NOT RELIGIOUS~ A DAY AT A TIME
02/19 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY
When a person says something rash or ugly, we sometimes say they are "forgetting themselves," meaning they're forgetting their BEST selves in a sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury. If I remember the kind of person I want to be, hopefully I won't "forget myself" and yield to a fit of temper. I'll believe that the positive always defeats the negative: courage overcomes fear; patience overcomes anger and irritability; love overcomes hatred. AM I ALWAYS STRIVING FOR IMPROVEMENT?
TODAY I PRAY
Today I ask that God, to Whom all things are possible, help me turn negatives into positives -- anger into super-energy, fear into a chance to be courageous, hatred into love. May I take time out to remember examples of such positive-from-negative transformations from the whole of my lifetime. Uppermost is God's miracle: my freedom from the slavery of addiction.
TODAY I WILL REMEMBER
Turn negatives into positives.
When a person says something rash or ugly, we sometimes say they are "forgetting themselves," meaning they're forgetting their BEST selves in a sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury. If I remember the kind of person I want to be, hopefully I won't "forget myself" and yield to a fit of temper. I'll believe that the positive always defeats the negative: courage overcomes fear; patience overcomes anger and irritability; love overcomes hatred. AM I ALWAYS STRIVING FOR IMPROVEMENT?
TODAY I PRAY
Today I ask that God, to Whom all things are possible, help me turn negatives into positives -- anger into super-energy, fear into a chance to be courageous, hatred into love. May I take time out to remember examples of such positive-from-negative transformations from the whole of my lifetime. Uppermost is God's miracle: my freedom from the slavery of addiction.
TODAY I WILL REMEMBER
Turn negatives into positives.
It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end. ~Ursula K. LeGuin