How do we do this? We keep our spirit open and lively through prayer and meditation. Whatever gifts the day brings, we must be able to receive them. Who knows what gifts the day may bring? Maybe it brings a solution to a problem. Open to how much our Higher Power love us.
#Aa daily reflection nov 4 full#
How full life can be! We can untie the ribbons on this gift by keeping our spirits open. I’ll take great satisfaction today in the full use of my senses, including that part of me that perceives and expresses deep feelings. But sensitivity is generally good, and in sobriety we can become better people because of it. It can make us vulnerable to problems that do not belong to us, and it can lead us into the trap of worrying about things we can do nothing about. Like all gifts, sensitivity has its downside. It can help us become a part of the group. It can make us more aware of the feelings and needs of others. In sobriety, we are learning that sensitivity is a gift that we can channel wisely. This dulling of our sensitive nature blinded us to the damage we were doing. In drinking, we actually dulled any sensitivity, though we thought we were expressing more feelings. This sets us up for all kinds of hurts, both real and imaginary. Some of us complain about being too sensitive, or others may tell us so. When happiness comes, we accept it as a gift and thank God for it.” When pain comes, we are expected to learn from it willingly and help others to learn. In short, we try to move toward the image and likeness of God as we understand Him.
It is intended that we try to grow, and that we try to help our fellow travelers to grow in the kind of love that makes no demands. On my view, we of this world are pupils in a great school of life. How do we meet the problems we face? How do we best learn from them and transmit what we have learned to others, if they would receive the knowledge? “I don’t think happiness or unhappiness is the point. I pray that I may be content with the happiness that comes when I do the right thing. I pray that I may not always seek pleasure as a goal. True happiness comes as a result of living, in all respects, the way you believe God wants you to live, with regard to yourself and to other people. Happiness is a by-product of living the right kind of life. Do not seek to have this fullness of joy by seeking pleasure.
Seeking pleasure does not bring happiness in the long run, only disillusionment. At Thy right hand are pleasures forever.” We cannot find true happiness by looking for it. I have the urge to create something, that creative urge that was completely stifled by alcohol. I can write letters that need to be written, I can make telephone calls that should be made. When I was drunk, I was too inert to even comb my hair. I couldn’t get up the steam to start anything. Liquor took away my initiative and my ambition.
The daily discipline of prayer and meditation will keep me in fit spiritual condition, able to face whatever the day brings – without the thought of a drink. The practice of asking Him to help me in my strivings for perfection puts a new slant on the tedium of any day, because I know there is honor in any job done well. I find that the turmoil of the day gets tuned out as I pray for His will and guidance. Meditation and prayer also teach me the art of focusing and listening. If I devote just a few moments every night to a review of the highlights of my day, along with an acknowledgment of those aspects that didn’t please me so much, I gain a personal history of myself, one that is essential to my growth, or lack of it, and to ask in prayerful meditation to be relieved of those continuing shortcomings that cause me pain. The last three Steps of the program invoke God’s loving discipline upon my willful nature. ” … when they are logically related and interwoven, the result is an unshakable foundation for life.”
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