Today's Thought - May

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May 13

We have too many high sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them.

~Abigail Adams

It is easier to talk about what we are going to do than to actually do it. We make good resolutions and can use fine phrases to express our intentions. But when it comes right down to it, we often fail to deliver.

Of course it is important to want to do good and to talk about it. But if we get lost in our addiction, we will find that the outside world tends to become shadowy and insubstantial compared to our obsessions. I want to help him with that task; I’d like to give her a surprise on her birthday—but in the meantime, it’s fantasy as usual. In our addiction we don’t have time or energy for other people. Obsession takes time; compulsion costs money. So the world must wait a while…

In recovery we grow tired of living this way, so isolated and self-absorbed. It takes time, patience, and support to break out and start to live again, but we can do it. We owe it to ourselves to turn good intentions into results in the real world.

I’m turning thoughts into actions and connecting with real, live people.

Today's reading is from the book Answers in the Heart: Daily Meditations for Men and Women Recovering from Sex Addiction*