*Topics 5/11/25* ❤️🩹
*1) A NEW SENSE OF BELONGING**
Until we had talked with complete candor of our conflicts, and had listened to someone else do the same thing, we still didn’t belong.
-TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 57
*2) Language Of Letting Go
Many of us picked on ourselves unmercifully before recovery. We may also have a tendency too pick on ourselves after we begin recovery.
If I was really recovering, I wouldn’t be doing that again … I should be further along than I am. These are statements that we indulge in when we’re feeling shame. We don’t need to treat ourselves that way. There is no benefit.
Remember, shame blocks us. But self-love and acceptance enable us to grow and change. If we truly have done something we feel guilty about, we can correct it with an amend and an attitude of self-acceptance and love.
Much pain comes from trying to be perfect. Perfection is impossible unless we think of it in a new way: Perfection is being who and where we are today; it’s accepting and loving ourselves just as we are. We are each right where we need to be in our recovery.
*3) A Day At A Time*
I seek and pray for 24-hour courage to change the things I can. This isn’t the kind of courage that will make me a strong and brave person for life, able to handle any and all situations courageously. Rather, what I need is a persistent and intelligent courage, continuing each day into the next one — by doing today only what can be done today and avoiding all fear and worry with regard to the final results.
May I tackle only those things which I have a chance of changing. And change must start with me, a day at a time. May I know that acceptance often is a form of courage.
*4) Chinese Proverb*
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.