A Prayer & Some Thoughts - September

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September 30

Prayer for Comfort

Lord,
We give you this hurt, pain, weakness and sorrow in exchange for your comfort.
Take our pain away, according to Your will, in Your time.
We’re not promised a painless life on this earth, but You do want us to live a happy one.
Fill our hearts with hope as we wait on You to move in our lives and flow out from our hearts.
Amen

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Just a Thought

Finding our Higher Power.

There is a wide variation in the way each one of us approaches and conceives of the Power greater than ourselves. Whether we agree with a particular approach or conception seems to make little difference. There are questions for each of us to settle for ourselves. But in each case the belief in a Higher Power has accomplished the miraculous, the humanly impossible. There has come a revolutionary change in their way of living and thinking.

So ............

Has there been a revolutionary change in me?

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Just a Contemplation

Sincerity

It is important for me to be sincere.
Many of us grew up in situations that required us to be constantly on our guard. We became so keenly attuned to the people around us and how to please them or avoid their anger that we lost contact with our inner messages. Rather than developing skills for drawing upon our inner resources, we developed skills for looking outward and reacting to whatever confronted us.

Today, we are learning to know what we think and feel and to express it, even if it isn't always what others want to hear. We can be spontaneous now because we have room for mistakes in our lives. Our relationships are more reliable, and we have more energy from sincerity than from always striving to make a good appearance.

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Demands

The chief activator of our defects has been self-centered fear -- primarily fear that we would lose something we already possessed or would fail to get something we demanded.
Living upon a basis of unsatisfied demands, we were in a state of continual disturbance and frustration.
Therefore, no peace was to be had unless we could find a means of reducing these demands. The difference between a demand and a simple request is plain to anyone.

Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions Page 76

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Just a Quote

“Knowing Is Not Enough; We Must Apply. Wishing Is Not Enough; We Must Do.” ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe