Then we develop hurt feelings, a sense of persecution, and a desire to retaliate. When we habitually try to manipulate others to our own willful desires, they revolt, and resist us heavily. In this way our insecurity grows and festers. If we lean too heavily on people, they will sooner or later fail us, for they are human, too, and cannot possibly meet our incessant demands. Either we insist upon dominating people we know, or we depend upon them far too much. Our egomania digs two disastrous pitfalls. The primary fact that we fail to recognize is our total inability to form a true partnership with another human being. I pray that It may express Itself in my life. I pray that I may accept the limitless and eternal Spirit. I also know that I can experience that Power in my life. But I know that there must be something beyond space and time, and that something must be the limitless and eternal Power behind the universe. My mind is in a box of space and time and it is so made that I cannot conceive of what is beyond space or time, the limitless and the eternal. I too must feel awe, feel the desire to worship God in wondering amazement. Then we feel the awe that precedes worship. Whenever we seek to worship God, we think of the great universe that God rules over, of creation, of mighty law and order throughout the universe. Am I making my weakness my greatest asset? No weakness, such as drinking, ever turned into an asset until it was first fairly faced. So your weakness can become an asset if you will face it, examine it, and trace it to its origin. In climbing up a high mountain, we need the stony crags and rough places to aid us in our climb. Kites and airplanes rise against the wind. One of the most encouraging facts of life is that your weakness can become your greatest asset. The journey of life is a very happy one, as long as I am willing to accept change and responsibility. when I honestly became willing to be taught forgiveness and forgiving that life itself is the journey. I was always taught to prepare for the journey through life, never realizing until I came to A.A. I did not know that if I had just forgiven myself for some of my past deeds, God would forgive me also. I thought that if I didn’t mention those things to God, He would never know about them. When I prayed, I used to omit a lot of things for which I needed to be forgiven. But in no case does He render us white as snow and keep us that way without our cooperation. If we ask, God will certainly forgive our derelictions.
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