acceptance

self – a meditation

  Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and scared. Don’t open the door to the study and begin reading. Take down the dulcimer. Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground. Rumi Today, like many other days, I woke up…

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Higher Power – a meditation

  The poorer we are inwardly, the more we try to enrich ourselves outwardly. Bruce Lee I love this quote. It provides me with such a simple check of where I am with my program, at that moment. If I am worried about things going on outside of my control, I know that my true…

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Progress, not Perfection – Episode 29

Today, we’re going to talk about progress, not perfection. Ever feel like no matter how much you try, you fall short? Ever just want to give up because perfection just seems too hard to achieve, so why bother? Ever feel like the strides you do take forward just aren’t good enough? Join Kelli, Swetha, and…

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timing – a meditation

  Everything you need will come to you at the perfect time.   Sometimes, I wonder how my life would be different if I had come to my program of recovery months, years, or even decades, sooner. But when I take a moment to really think about it, I realize that nothing would be different….

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humanity – a meditation

  What would happen to our recovery if it depended completely on one or two well-intentioned but fallible human beings? How Al-Anon Works, p. 123 (tradition 12). My recovery would fail, that is my answer to that question. I think that is why I used to be so “unserene” before my recovery program. I used…

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