We don't always have to be strong. Sometimes, our strength is expressed in being vulnerable. Sometimes, we need to fall apart to regroup and stay on track.
We all have days when we cannot push any harder, cannot hold back self-doubt, cannot stop focusing on fear, cannot be strong.
There are days when we cannot focus on being responsible. Occasionally we don't want to get out of our pajamas. Sometimes, we cry in front of people. We expose our tiredness, irritability, or anger.
Those days are okay. They are just okay.
Part of taking care of ourselves means we give ourselves permission to "fall apart" when we need to. We do not have to be perpetual towers of strength. We are strong. We have proven that. Our strength will continue if we allow ourselves the courage to feel scared, weak, and vulnerable when we need to experience those feelings.
Today, God, help me to know that it is okay to allow myself to be human. Help me not to feel guilty or punish myself when I need to "fall apart."
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Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. ~Dr. Seuss
Things are sure falling apart for me lately - at least in my mind and I have no idea how to put it back together. when I try to put it back together there is either left over pieces or the square peg doesn't fit into the round hole. I am stuck with a square peg and a round hole. I have thought about cutting, shaving, whittling some away but in retrospect that would be taking away parts of myself. I suppose if I let go of all the baggage and garbage then maybe I just might fit again but until then I am litteraly lost. Thank-you for your post - it hits home for me and it gives me alot to think about. Just my share at this moment in time.
Later - Jeannie
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You only live once; but if you work it right, once is enough. There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.
And acceptance is the answer to all my problems today. When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing, or situation-some fact of my life -unacceptable to me, and I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing, or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment. Nothing, absolutely nothing, happens in God's world by mistake. ----------------
And..The more meetings I go to? The better I feel..
May GOD grant you the Serenity to accept the things you CANNOT CHANGE..:)
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"LOVE" devoid of self-gratification, is in essence, the will, to the greatest good...of another.
