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1) DAILY REFLECTION – FAMILY OBLIGATION
… a spiritual life which does not include … family obligations may not be so perfect after all.
-ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 129
2. A Day At A Time
What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
– George Eliot
Sometimes a painful ending can be the beginning of a new way of life which is a happy reality. The end of grief brings us new acceptance and balance. The end of a bad relationship might be a welcome beginning.
An ending? Or a beginning? Often the answer depends on how we choose to see it. Grown children leaving home can be a sad end, or it can be an exciting opportunity to begin living more for ourselves. A move can mean leaving old friends or meeting new ones. Almost every event in life — marriage, a new job, graduation, even a vacation — means an ending of some sort. As we face each ending, we can choose to see a new beginning.
Today, I will remember that life is made of many new beginnings.
3) –Mary Manin Morrissey
Look, past the behavior, into the window of one another’s souls. There we make a connection. The God in me recognizes and honors the God in you.
4) One More Day
Guilt is a cunning weapon in the armory of the addictive person which continues to lurk patiently inside each of us. We can use the weapon against ourselves in many subtle ways; it can be deftly wielded, for example, in an attempt to convince us that The Program doesn’t really work. I have to protect myself constantly against guilt and self-accusations concerning my past. If necessary, I must constantly “re-forgive” myself, accepting myself as a mixture of good as well as bad. Am I striving for spiritual progress? Or will I settle for working less than the human impossibility of spiritual perfection?