~SPIRITUAL NOT RELIGIOUS~ A DAY AT A TIME
04/01 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY
If we don't want to slip, we'll avoid slippery places. For the alcoholic, that means avoiding old drinking haunts; for the overeater, that means bypassing a once-favorite pastry shop; for the gambler, that means shunning poker parties and race tracks. For me, certain emotional situations can also be slippery places; so can indulgence of old ideas such as a well-nourished resentment that is allowed to build to explosive proportions. DO I CARRY THE PRINCIPLES OF THE PROGRAM WITH ME WHEREVER I GO?
TODAY I PRAY
May I learn not to rest myself too harshly by "asking for it," by stopping in at the bar or the bakery or the track. Such "testing" can be dangerous, especially if I am egged on, not only by a thirst or an appetite or a craving for the old addiction, but by others still caught in it whose moral responsibility has been reduced to zero.
TODAY I WILL REMEMBER
Avoid slippery places.
If we don't want to slip, we'll avoid slippery places. For the alcoholic, that means avoiding old drinking haunts; for the overeater, that means bypassing a once-favorite pastry shop; for the gambler, that means shunning poker parties and race tracks. For me, certain emotional situations can also be slippery places; so can indulgence of old ideas such as a well-nourished resentment that is allowed to build to explosive proportions. DO I CARRY THE PRINCIPLES OF THE PROGRAM WITH ME WHEREVER I GO?
TODAY I PRAY
May I learn not to rest myself too harshly by "asking for it," by stopping in at the bar or the bakery or the track. Such "testing" can be dangerous, especially if I am egged on, not only by a thirst or an appetite or a craving for the old addiction, but by others still caught in it whose moral responsibility has been reduced to zero.
TODAY I WILL REMEMBER
Avoid slippery places.
It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end. ~Ursula K. LeGuin
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