Ann

You are reading from the book The Language of Letting Go

New Energy Coming

Fun becomes fun, love becomes love, and life becomes worth living. And we become grateful.
—Beyond Codependency

There is a new energy, a new feeling coming into our life. We cannot base our expectations about how we will feel tomorrow, or even a few hours from now, on how we feel at this moment.

There are no two moments in time alike. We are recovering. We are changing. Our life is changing. At times, things haven't worked out the way we wanted. We had lessons to learn. The future shall not be like the past.

The truly difficult times are almost over. The confusion, the most challenging learning experiences, the difficult feelings are about to pass.

Do not limit the future by the past!

Reflect on the beginning of your recovery. Haven't there been many changes that have brought you to where you are now? Reflect on one year ago. Haven't you and your circumstances changed since then?

Sometimes, problems and feelings linger for a while. These times are temporary. Times of confusion, uncertainty, times of living with a particular unsolved problem do not last forever.

We make these times doubly hard by comparing them to our past. Each situation and circumstance has had its particular influence in shaping who we are. We do not have to scare ourselves by comparing our present and future to a painful past, especially our past before we began recovering or before we learned through a particular experience.

Know that the discomfort will not be permanent. Do not try to figure out how you shall feel or when you shall feel differently. Instead, trust. Accept today, but do not be limited by it.

A new energy is coming. A new feeling is on the way. We cannot predict how it will be by looking at how it was or how it is, because it shall be entirely different. We have not worked and struggled in vain. It has been for and toward something.

Times are changing for the better. Continue on the path of trust and obedience. Be open to the new.

Today, God, help me not judge or limit my future by my past. Help me be open to all the exciting possibilities for change, both within and around me.

From The Language of Letting Go by Melody Beattie ©1990, Hazelden Foundation.

Ann

When I was new to recovery, I remember how scary the thought of change was. My life was awful but it was "my" life and what I was used to. I had become comfortable in my dysfunction called codependency, but I had also become more scared and unhappy than I had ever been in my life.

Change was scary, but staying the same was scarier.

I had no idea where recovery would lead me, I had to travel in blind faith that if I did what those who went before me did, I could have what they had. They promised me this. The program promised me this. And those promises have all come true today.

Good things coming? You betcha.

My life is better than I could ever have imagined today. I wake up every single morning glad to be alive and eagerly anticipating the surprises(good or bad) that today will bring.

Each night I fall asleep saying "Thank You God."

You betcha changes are coming, and they are all free for the taking when you are ready to hop on the recovery train.

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