AFFIRMATION

On this New Year Day, I find that my work for my life today, and only today, is to reflect on a time in my life that I have experienced a feeling of happiness and contentment. If I can remember a pleasant situation from the past, I will construct a happy situation and imagine it occurring right now.

“In getting my priorities straight, my depression is better,”

CLARIFICATION OF THOUGHT

In my relationship to God, I am beginning to  realize that it isn’t so much that I don’t believe that I’ll ever feel better, but that I just can’t know for sure. My first priority is to  admit that I do have a problem and that with God’s help, I can get through my depression.

As soon as I give up my victim stance and begin  to take responsibility for my feelings and my life,  I can start to work as if my recovery is really up to me and that I will, in time, succeed in getting out of this deep dark hole that I call depression. My priority is to begin each day with the conviction that the Twelve Steps will be an aid in getting out of my depression.

MEDITATION

God, we seek your guidance and your strength for our lives. Whatever we have lost  or feel we have lost, please take the holes in our soles and fill them with your love and peace. In our quiet time today, show us what part of us  needs to be healed.

SOURCE:  Higher Thoughts for down days: 365 daily thoughts and meditations for members of Twelve Step fellowship groups. Depressed Anonymous Publications. Louisville. January 1, 2019.