Just For Today - July 29th - Comments Welcome

[Phinneas]

July 29
Expectations

"As we realize our need to be forgiven, we tend to be more forgiving."
Basic Text, p.38

Our behavior toward other people in our life is a mirror of our behavior toward ourselves. When we demand perfection of ourselves, we come to demand it from others around us, too. As we strive to repair and heal our lives in recovery, we may also expect others to work just as hard and to recover at the same pace as we do. And just as we are often unforgiving of our own mistakes, we may shut out friends and family members when they don't meet our expectations.

Working the steps helps us understand our own limitations and our humanity. We come to see our failures as human mistakes. We realize that we will never be perfect, that we will, at times, disappoint ourselves and others. We hope for forgiveness.

As we learn to gently accept ourselves, we can start to view others with the same accepting and tolerant heart. These people, too, are only human, trying to do their best and sometimes falling short.

Just for today: I will treat others with the tolerance and forgiveness I seek for myself.
pg. 219

[ccgirl]

One of the things I am learning is patience with other people (OK, maybe not my kids, lol) I was in a line to get a sandwich and this guy cut me and normally I would have gone off on him. Instead I just smiled and said "Whatever, you must be in a really big hurry. Turns out he just didn't see men and he did it accidentally. We had a nice friendly converstion after that and I wished him a good vaction.

It felt so good to be nice instead of nasty and I'm sure the feeling carried through the rest of the day with him; I know it did for me.

Without sobriety, i dont think I could have been that patient.

[Gmoney]

Acceptance is the key!!