~SPIRITUAL NOT RELIGIOUS~ A DAY AT A TIME
04/08 REFLECTIONS FOR THE DAY
Time after time, we learn in The Program, newcomers try to keep to themselves "shoddy facts" about their lives. Trying to avoid the humbling experience of the Fifth Step, they turn to a seemingly easier and softer way. Almost invariably, they slip. Having persevered with the rest of The Program, they then wonder why they fell. The probable reason is they never completed their housecleaning. They took inventory all right, but hung on to some of the worst items in stock. HAVE I ADMITTED TO GOD, TO MYSELF, AND TO ANOTHER HUMAN BEING THE EXACT NATURE OF MY WRONGS?
TODAY I PRAY
That I may include all of the sleaziness of my past, my cruelities and my dishonesties, in a complete moral inventory of myself. May I hold back nothing out of shame or pride, for the "exact nature" of my wrongs means just that -- a thorough and exact recounting of past mistakes and character flaws. We have been provided with an appropriate "dumping-ground." May I use it as it was intended. May all my costumes of the past, be foundation "fill" on which to build a new life.
TODAY I WILL REMEMBER
Trash can be a foundation for treasures.
Time after time, we learn in The Program, newcomers try to keep to themselves "shoddy facts" about their lives. Trying to avoid the humbling experience of the Fifth Step, they turn to a seemingly easier and softer way. Almost invariably, they slip. Having persevered with the rest of The Program, they then wonder why they fell. The probable reason is they never completed their housecleaning. They took inventory all right, but hung on to some of the worst items in stock. HAVE I ADMITTED TO GOD, TO MYSELF, AND TO ANOTHER HUMAN BEING THE EXACT NATURE OF MY WRONGS?
TODAY I PRAY
That I may include all of the sleaziness of my past, my cruelities and my dishonesties, in a complete moral inventory of myself. May I hold back nothing out of shame or pride, for the "exact nature" of my wrongs means just that -- a thorough and exact recounting of past mistakes and character flaws. We have been provided with an appropriate "dumping-ground." May I use it as it was intended. May all my costumes of the past, be foundation "fill" on which to build a new life.
TODAY I WILL REMEMBER
Trash can be a foundation for treasures.
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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