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1)DAILY REFECTION -forming True Partnerships
But it is from our twisted relations with family, friends, and society at large that many of us have suffered the most. We have been especially stupid and stubborn about them. The primary fact that we fail to recognize is our total inability to form a true partnership with another human being.
-TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 53
2) AS BILL SEES IT – RELEASE AND JOYÂ
We think cheerfulness and laughter make for usefulness. Outsiders are sometimes shocked when we burst into merriment over a seemingly tragic experience out of the past. But why shouldn’t we laugh? We have recovered, and have helped others to recover. What greater cause could there be for rejoicing than this?
3) ONE DAY AT A TIMEÂ
“It’s astonishing in this world how things don’t turn out at all the way you expect them to.”
–Agatha Christie
My life has been strangled by expectations ~ expectations I’ve held for myself; expectations others had of me; expectations I had of others and expectations I had of the God of my understanding. Eventually I became consumed by a toxic sense of angry and depressing apathy. If nothing turned out as I expected, why bother? I’d held so tightly to my expectations that they choked the life out of my soul. They condemned me to an existence of futility, frustration, selfishness, and despair. I thought that my expectations were realistic and “right”; therefore each variance from my expectations seemed a violation of the natural order of things.
One day at a time …
I surrender my former expectations and now expect only one thing: that as I work my steps, God will bring me increasing depths of sanity.
4) ONE MORE DAYÂ
A crisis in our lives can make us cruel and bitter but can also cause us to do some soul-searching. Those of us who take inventory, who soul-search, may have a personal awakening to our capacity for joy and giving. Being aware of the beauty and symmetry that constantly surround us allows the horizons of our minds to expand.
A spiritual sense of self is important in my quest to find out who I am and what kind of person I want to be.