Your HIGHER THOUGHT for today
Affirmation
I am gaining, day by day, a new and hopeful attitude about my life and my relationship with others.
“Strangely, I feel as if I’ve been incredibly lucky. Logically, I don’t believe in luck. I believe the people make their own lives when they are what they are, but still I feel so lucky to have been involved in a group which gave me the opportunity, and incentive, to start to make changes in my life: to understand why I am sometimes so angry, why I have been so self-critical and self-destructing. Understanding why you feel as you do opens the gates for the even harder struggle of changing what you do.”
Making changes is part of making a life. If I choose to stay mired in the deep pit of depression, I can choose that. I have that as an option. But, if I want to choose and risk changing myself, I have the option of working to construct a different way of looking at my world. Just by changing my attitude about my life in the direction where I want it to go, I can make the hard changes. I want to change my attitude. I will now want to listen to those who have been in recovery for months and/or years and listen to their hopeful attitude and how they are feeling better now that they are living one day at a time. They are no longer fearful that the old nemesis, the sadness, will sneak up and change everything back to the way it was.
I can only change myself. I will always try and keep the focus on how I need to change, not how others around me need to change.
Meditation
God, we are always heartened and healed by the group. Please guide us and let us be led to that healing community of persons who are struggling to find the serenity that you promised to those who do you will. “Fear not, for I am always with you.”
SOURCE: Copyright(c) Higher Thoughts for down days: 365 daily thoughts and meditations for members of 12 step fellowship groups. Hugh Smith. Depressed Anonymous Publications. Louisville. Ky. Page 43. (2/27/18.)
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