A person's best ally is someone who takes care of herself. --Susan Clarke
Once there was a little girl who was learning to walk. The trouble was, her mother wouldn't let her fall down. Every time she was about to fall, her mother would rush over and catch her.
It was hard to learn how to walk if she couldn't fall down, but the girl was too little to be able to tell her mother. Her mother thought she was taking care of her when in fact she was keeping her from learning to take care of herself. Letting her fall would have shown trust in the child, trust that she could get up. It would have taught her that she wasn't so fragile that she couldn't recover if she hurt herself.
We are all like this mother once in a while, protecting one another from important lessons in life. This doesn't mean we have to let someone get seriously hurt, but that we allow each other the freedom to learn and grow in individual ways.
What will I be able to learn from my little stumbles today?
I was thinking we can't be the mom and dad and hold people up. I was bringing a man to meetings. I call him, he says not tonight. Call again, he says tomorrow. Call again,-- some other time.
Is that the guy you were posting about the other day? I have been wondering how it was going. Hey, you did your part. Maybe he'll think a little more about things now, and give it a real try if they have a meeting in there.
God bless you today, as we take our Steps through it.
*clunk, bump, shuffle, slide*
love in recovery,
amanda
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do your best and God does the rest, a step at a time
