Topics 5/17/25 ❤🩹
1) … AND FORGIVE
Under very trying conditions I have had, again and again, to forgive others–also myself.
-AS BILL SEE IT p. 268
Steps provide a way by which my resentments may – by the grace of God as I understand Him – be lifted. It is as a result of this solution that I can find the necessary grace which enables me to forgive myself and others.
2) Each Day A New Beginning
Loving allows us to live and through living we grow in loving.
—Evelyn Mandel
We may have to act “as if” we love the persons who live on our pathways. The unexpected gift is that we do begin to feel both love and loved. Acting “as if” is a good way of learning those behaviors that don’t feel natural. And in time, acting “as if” is necessary no more.
I can choose to think about others, and love them. I can choose to forget myself, today.
3) Father Leo’s Daily Meditations
“Tolerance is the positive and cordial effort to understand another’s beliefs, practices and habits without necessarily sharing or accepting them.”
–Joshua Liebman
I do not have to agree with a person to tolerate or befriend them.This is a new attitude for me and is part of my spiritual program.
Today I can tolerate and learn from people who view God, the world and morality differently from me. Spirituality is teaching me to be open and accepting.
4) Days Of Healing Days Of Joy
As life is action and passion, it is required of an individual that they should state the passion and action of their time at peril of being judged not to have lived.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
Many of us have tragic personal insight into the number of alcoholic deaths that are attributed to pneumonia, congestive best failure, anything but alcoholism. But feelings of inferiority are just as lethal as any of these. Although they may not appear so, people who feel a deep sense of inferiority are not fully alive
Today I remind myself I have something to contribute.