This is posted from the "Today's Hope" site of Alanon.
DAILY SLOGAN/SAYING To live or just exist - the choice is yours.
- Heard in a meeting
DAILY REFLECTION
Relax enough to face reality when life twists and turns.
Sometimes in life, no matter how deeply we intend to make the best decisions possible for ourselves, things happen. Marriages end, jobs turn sour, friends wane. For reasons outside our control or understanding, the situation twists and turns into something other than what we bargained for.
Have you been waiting for a situation to revert to what it originally was, or what you hoped it would be when you got in? Are you telling yourself that there's something wrong with you when the reality is that the situation has changed into something other than what you thought it was? Things often don't go as smoothly as we planned. Sometimes we need to endure and get through the rough spots. But I'm talking about those grindingly difficult moments when life suddenly twists on us.
These are the times we need to quit torturing ourselves. Let go of what you thought would happen. If life has twisted on you, don't turn on yourself. Don't try to make things be the way they were. Come up to speed. Return to now. Let yourself accept the new situation at hand.
The road isn't always a straight course. Sometimes even a path with heart unexpectedly twists and turns.
God, help me relax and trust myself enough to deal with reality, not my fantasy of what I hoped it would be.
Daily share from the forum can be found here:
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