Today's Thought - May

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May 14

Accepting Ourselves

Wherever you go, there you are.

~Anonymous

There was once a time when we thought the grass was greener on the other side of the road. We knew people with whom we would trade lives in a minute. We even searched out new identities in new towns and cities. We thought we were looking for life when we changed our geography. The truth was different: we were really trying to escape our lives.

Somebody once said the only problem with taking a trip is having to take ourselves. How true this was for us before we found the program. Our biggest fear in finding who we really were was that we’d discover we were no different than we appeared to be.

Our challenge in recovery has been to learn to love ourselves. We have had to be forgiven for the shabby way we’ve treated ourselves.

I am a person with faults to be sure, but I am basically good and getting better, one day at a time. Wherever I go, I’m happy to find that there l am.

Today's reading is from the book Easy Does It: A Book of Daily Twelve Step Meditations*