Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings. -- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
The world we live in depends on the responsible contributions each of us makes. And this world is just as good as are the many talents we commit ourselves to developing and offering. None of us is without obligation to offer our best to our family, friends, or strangers, if our hope is to live in a good world. The world can only be as good as each of us makes it.
Individually and collectively our power to mold the outer circumstances of our lives is profound. Our personal responses to one another and our reactions to events that touch us combine with the actions of others to create a changed environment that affects us. No action, no thought goes unnoticed, unfelt, in this interdependent system of humanity. We share this universe. We are the force behind all that the universe offers.
Whether I acknowledge the depth of my contribution is irrelevant. It is still profound and making an impact every moment and eternally.
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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
This is not one of the funner, easier aspects of recovery. We like to think that 'focus on ourselves' means not to worry about other people at all. We like to think that 'we can't control it' means that there is nothing we can do to positively change anything. We like the 'God, grant us the serenity to accept the things we cannot change.... "
We don't like to think that 'the courage to change the things we can' means that we actually have a real obligation to do that. Yep,, this is definitely a post to just let scroll silently off the page, right?
amanda
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Quetzal wrote: Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings. -- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Whether I acknowledge the depth of my contribution is irrelevant. It is still profound and making an impact every moment and eternally.
AMEN! When I let go and let God, it all comes shining through. May not be today, or tomorrow, and it probably will not be 'profound' in the way of 'flashing signs' or 'burning bushes' but I know that it will.....For I have FAITH and HOPE.. I do worry about others, but I no longer DWELL.. Today I do have the courage to change the things I can........and I have........thanks for the post.
-- Edited by Doll at 11:24, 2006-12-30
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Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass... It's about learning to dance in the rain.
Where I am cautious in this area is when I think I have 'arrived', and instead of "the courage to change the things I can", I find myself going more in the direction of "the control issues to change the things I want to". Fine line for me and not always recognizable. I have to be ever vigilant that I'm discerning what my Higher Power wills lest I allow ego to will it for me, know what I mean? It's so easy for ego to cloud things just enough to muddy that certainty for me. So keeping my heart and inner ears open to that "still small voice" is really important for me. My conscience can be a pretty fair guide there, when I step out of bounds. Wren
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"Never argue with an idiot... They'll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience..."
wow, sooo true! That fine line between 'changing the things I can' according to Step 11, and going back to trying to control things according to our own way of thinking! Sometimes I have one foot on each side of that fence! This is really key!
love in recovery,
amanda
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