Courage to Change - January 15
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Courage to Change - January 15
Courage to Change – January 15
Recently I learned about a crisis in the life of an alcoholic I love. Today, while trying to work, I found myself slumping in my chair, depressed and distracted. Soon, all thoughts of work had fled, and I was busy projecting a horrible outcome to my loved one’s crisis and dreading the ways in which the consequences might affect me. The slogan, “One Day at a Time” reminds me that, in spite of my fears, I don’t know what tomorrow will bring.
Why am I leaping into the future? Perhaps I’ve given my feelings no room to exist. Part of me gambles that by worrying in advance, bad news will be easier to face if it comes. But worrying will not protect me from the future. It will just keep me from living here and now.
TODAY’S REMINDERI needn’t explore how I’ll feel about something that might occur in the future. I don’t actually know how I’ll feel, and it may never happen. So when I feel myself leaving the present, I’ll remind myself that the future is not today’s problem.
“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow; it only saps today of its strength.” A J Cronin
Recently I learned about a crisis in the life of an alcoholic I love. Today, while trying to work, I found myself slumping in my chair, depressed and distracted. Soon, all thoughts of work had fled, and I was busy projecting a horrible outcome to my loved one’s crisis and dreading the ways in which the consequences might affect me. The slogan, “One Day at a Time” reminds me that, in spite of my fears, I don’t know what tomorrow will bring.
Why am I leaping into the future? Perhaps I’ve given my feelings no room to exist. Part of me gambles that by worrying in advance, bad news will be easier to face if it comes. But worrying will not protect me from the future. It will just keep me from living here and now.
TODAY’S REMINDERI needn’t explore how I’ll feel about something that might occur in the future. I don’t actually know how I’ll feel, and it may never happen. So when I feel myself leaving the present, I’ll remind myself that the future is not today’s problem.
“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow; it only saps today of its strength.” A J Cronin
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Learning to live in today and not be so obsessed about the future - has been a tough lesson for me - I still can easily slip into that old behavior.
After all the future is so uncertain - so many things can happen - it is my knee-jerk reaction to believe that all of those "unforeseen" things that can happen will all be negative things.
Using recovery thinking - I remind myself that the God of my understanding can just as easily have positive things planned in my future!
There are endless possibilities of what my future may hold - therefore I need to focus on the Next Right Thing for today so that I will be ready for whatever is available for me in tomorrow.
Wishing you the Hope of knowing Today has wonderful possibilities that will make the Future a better place for you and your life,
HUGS,
Rita
After all the future is so uncertain - so many things can happen - it is my knee-jerk reaction to believe that all of those "unforeseen" things that can happen will all be negative things.
Using recovery thinking - I remind myself that the God of my understanding can just as easily have positive things planned in my future!
There are endless possibilities of what my future may hold - therefore I need to focus on the Next Right Thing for today so that I will be ready for whatever is available for me in tomorrow.
Wishing you the Hope of knowing Today has wonderful possibilities that will make the Future a better place for you and your life,
HUGS,
Rita
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"But worrying will not protect me from the future. It will just keep me from living here and now."
Thank you for this reminder.
"Why am I leaping into the future? Perhaps I’ve given my feelings no room to exist."
This is a good heavy one to contemplate....
Thank you for posting this Rita--
peace-
B.
Thank you for this reminder.
"Why am I leaping into the future? Perhaps I’ve given my feelings no room to exist."
This is a good heavy one to contemplate....
Thank you for posting this Rita--
peace-
B.
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