12/7/2023 0 Comments Aa daily reflections april 2nd![]() The good news is that we can retain any lessons from the past and put them to use today. Whether we were winners or losers in the past, we can live only in the here and now. Time does march on, and we are part of the parade. More likely, we may also be re-fighting old battles in the hope that this time we’ll come out winners.īut since change is taking place everywhere at every moment, we can never return to any previous place or time. We may be holding a few good memories that we would like to bring alive today. This is the state of being that so often discovers and deepens a conscious contact with God. We rest quietly with the thoughts or prayers of spiritually centered people who understand, so that we may experience and learn. With amazing speed the Serenity Prayer came into general use. In an obituary notice from a local paper, there appeared these words: “God grant us the serenity to accept the things we cannot change, the courage to change the things we can, and the wisdom to know the difference.” In 1941, a news clipping was called to our attention by a New York member. ![]() I pray that I may find confirmation of my life in the good things that have come into my life. I pray that my faith may be strengthened every day. These in turn are followed by a more sure and abiding faith in God and His purposes. All these things gradually engender a feeling of wonder, humility, and gratitude to God. The constant, persistent recognition of God’s spirit in all my personal relationships, the ever accumulating weight of evidence in support of God’s guidance, the numberless instances in which seeming chance or wonderful coincidence can be traced to God’s purpose in my life. ![]() I gain faith by my own experience of God’s power in my life. Am I building up an endowment in serenity, peace, and happiness that will put me on easy street for the rest of my life? We’re making sure that our policy doesn’t lapse. And every time we help another alcoholic, we’re making a large payment on our drink insurance. meeting, every time we say the Lord’s Prayer, every time we have a quiet time before breakfast, we’re paying a premium on our insurance against taking that first drink. As I learned not to fear God, I also learned to experience joy. In looking back, I realize that, during the times I feared God most, there was no joy in my life. During the times I didn’t have love in my life, I most assuredly had fear. I didn’t know that one of the definitions of “courage” is “the willingness to do the right thing in spite of fear.” Courage, then, is not necessarily the absence of fear. I experienced fear early in my life, and I mistakenly thought that the mere presence of it made me a coward. “Fear knocked at the door faith answered no one was there.” I don’t know to whom this quote should be attributed, but it certainly indicates clearly that fear is an illusion. “All these failings generate fear, a soul-sickness in its own right.”
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