A DAY AT A TIME

REFLECTION FOR THE DAY

 There is no advantage, no profits and certainly no growth when I deceive myself merely to escape the consequences of my own mistakes.  When I realize this, I know I'll be making progress.  "We must be true inside, true to ourselves, before we can know a truth that is outside us," wrote Thomas Merton in No Man Is and Island.  "But we make ourselves true inside by manifesting the truth as we see it."  Am I true to myself?

TODAY I PRAY 

May I count on my Higher Power to help me carry out the truth as I see it.  May I never duck a consequence again.  Consequence-ducking became a parlor game for chemically addictive persons like me, until we lost all sense of relationship between action and outcome.  Now that I am healing, please God, restore my balance.

TODAY I WILL REMEMBER

Match the act with the consequence.