Forgiveness is all-powerful. Forgiveness heals all ills. --Catherine Ponder
Getting mad at someone, a friend perhaps, is normal. Everybody gets mad sometimes. But when we stay mad for very long, it ruins all the fun we'd planned on having throughout the day. Staying mad multiplies. Sometimes it seems we are mad at the dog, our mom, another friend, even the TV.
Forgiving the people we're mad at works like magic. We don't even have to forgive them out loud. We can forgive them in our own minds. The result is the same. Pretty soon the whole day looks bright again. When we're mad, we are the ones who suffer most.
Who can I forgive today, and make my day a better one?
Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings. --Step Seven
In the Sixth and Seventh Steps of the program, we become willing to let go of our defects of character - issues, behaviors, old feelings, unresolved grief, and beliefs that are blocking us from the joy that is ours. Then we ask our Higher Power to take them from us.
Isn't that simple? We don't have to contort ourselves to make ourselves change. We don't have to force change. For once, we don't have to "do it ourselves." All we have to do is strive for an attitude of willingness and humility. All we have to do is ask our Higher Power for what we want and need, and then trust Him to do for us that which we cannot do and do not have to do for ourselves.
We do not have to watch with bated breath for how and when we shall change. This is not a self-help program. In this miraculous and effective program that has brought about recovery and change for millions, we become changed by working the Steps.
Today, God, help me surrender to recovery and to the process by which I become changed. Help me focus on the Step I need. Help me do my part, relax, and allow the rest to happen.
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"LOVE" devoid of self-gratification, is in essence, the will, to the greatest good...of another.
pretty amazing how one of us seems to hit where another of us needs to hear it....... sometimes uncanny..!!!!!
I had a major bad row with one of my partners while I was off on vacation. Kinda started the first day, at which point I told him that I was originally intending to stay in communication, but changed my mind after the way he approached a problem with how I had handled one of our customers. Pretty much let him know that I didn't appreciate his attitude, and that I would be "incommunicado" for the remaining 7 days because of that.
Shocker was, that I stood my ground on what I felt was right, and came back expecting a seroious confrontation, but was instead greeted with a civil "lets go on with business" attitude.
It would not have served either of us to stay mad, and instead we decided to see what we needed to do today to help our business and each other. I didn't know this guy all that well before we started, but I think we may just be able to make it work!
Coulda just got drunk, but it wouldn't have made a damn bit of difference, just woulda made me drunk (and and at worst coulda caused a problem....with my business relationship, spousal relationship, and my health).
