Today's Hope - Oct. 2, 2019
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Today's Hope - Oct. 2, 2019
From Today's Hope
https://www.todays-hope.com/todays-sharing.html
Daily Reflection:
Feelings and Surrender
Surrendering is a highly personal and spiritual experience.
Surrender is not something we can do in our heads. It is not something we can force or control by willpower. It is something we experience.
Acceptance, or surrender, is not a tidy package. Often, it is a package full of hard feelings - anger, rage, and sadness, followed by release and relief. As we surrender, we experience our frustration and anger at God, at other people, at ourselves, and at life. Then we come to the core of the pain and sadness, the heavy emotional burden inside that must come out before we can feel good. Often, these emotions are connected to healing and release at a deep level.
Surrender sets the wheels in motion. Our fear and anxiety about the future are released when we surrender.
We are protected. We are guided. Good things have been planned. The next step is now being taken. Surrender is the process that allows us to move forward. It is how our Higher Power moves us forward. Trust in the rightness of timing, and the freedom at the other end, as you struggle humanly through this spiritual experience.
I will be open to the process of surrender in my life. I will allow myself all the awkward and potent emotions that must be released.
https://www.todays-hope.com/todays-sharing.html
Daily Reflection:
Feelings and Surrender
Surrendering is a highly personal and spiritual experience.
Surrender is not something we can do in our heads. It is not something we can force or control by willpower. It is something we experience.
Acceptance, or surrender, is not a tidy package. Often, it is a package full of hard feelings - anger, rage, and sadness, followed by release and relief. As we surrender, we experience our frustration and anger at God, at other people, at ourselves, and at life. Then we come to the core of the pain and sadness, the heavy emotional burden inside that must come out before we can feel good. Often, these emotions are connected to healing and release at a deep level.
Surrender sets the wheels in motion. Our fear and anxiety about the future are released when we surrender.
We are protected. We are guided. Good things have been planned. The next step is now being taken. Surrender is the process that allows us to move forward. It is how our Higher Power moves us forward. Trust in the rightness of timing, and the freedom at the other end, as you struggle humanly through this spiritual experience.
I will be open to the process of surrender in my life. I will allow myself all the awkward and potent emotions that must be released.
Life is good
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Join Date: Apr 2018
Posts: 4,036
Daily Sharing from the Forum, Al-Anon pocket-size magazine:
A Presence Among Us
Adults sit in toddler-size chairs in the tiny room at the back of the church basement. The decorations on the walls are Sunday school art. The table, shaped like a kidney bean, shows stains from marker inks and finger paints. The warm and cozy room feels like home—a comfort zone.
It has been quite a while since this weekly Al-Anon meeting was new to me, but some who gather here are strangers meeting in an unfamiliar place for the first time. Perhaps they are unaware of the common factors that have drawn us together. Many of us come to Al-Anon hoping to hear how to cure the alcoholic. We want to find relief and answers, so we arrive from various directions, religious denominations, and professions. We represent several social classes and ethnic backgrounds, and everyone gets to claim a little seat of their own.
Around the small table, we will begin to share from a place within, where feelings can hide in boxes, darkened by the disease of alcoholism. Newcomers may soon discover how much we have in common—the same fear, panic, grief, anger, and helplessness. Numbed by their own despair, the newcomers might sense that this is their last hope, because they feel so desperate, fragile, and wounded. Their pain seems endless.
A Higher Power who sees our hurt feelings has guided us to Al-Anon for healing. When we tell each other about our sadness and terror, we can share tears and find compassion, caring, and hope. The unity of the group strengthens each individual. As each of us expresses our own experience, the darkness begins to break into light. We can sigh with relief and draw a breath of freedom from our struggles.
How fortunate we are to have so many of these tables and chairs all over the world. As time passes, each of us will come to believe in the Power that led us here, the Power that spoke through us and to us, the Power that broke through the darkness to give us strength, hope, and peace.
There is a Presence among us that heals all of our hurts. Al-Anon brings us to a Power far greater than our deepest wounds or our darkest fears, just as that same Power brought each of us here.
By Dawn-Marie K., Washington
A Presence Among Us
Adults sit in toddler-size chairs in the tiny room at the back of the church basement. The decorations on the walls are Sunday school art. The table, shaped like a kidney bean, shows stains from marker inks and finger paints. The warm and cozy room feels like home—a comfort zone.
It has been quite a while since this weekly Al-Anon meeting was new to me, but some who gather here are strangers meeting in an unfamiliar place for the first time. Perhaps they are unaware of the common factors that have drawn us together. Many of us come to Al-Anon hoping to hear how to cure the alcoholic. We want to find relief and answers, so we arrive from various directions, religious denominations, and professions. We represent several social classes and ethnic backgrounds, and everyone gets to claim a little seat of their own.
Around the small table, we will begin to share from a place within, where feelings can hide in boxes, darkened by the disease of alcoholism. Newcomers may soon discover how much we have in common—the same fear, panic, grief, anger, and helplessness. Numbed by their own despair, the newcomers might sense that this is their last hope, because they feel so desperate, fragile, and wounded. Their pain seems endless.
A Higher Power who sees our hurt feelings has guided us to Al-Anon for healing. When we tell each other about our sadness and terror, we can share tears and find compassion, caring, and hope. The unity of the group strengthens each individual. As each of us expresses our own experience, the darkness begins to break into light. We can sigh with relief and draw a breath of freedom from our struggles.
How fortunate we are to have so many of these tables and chairs all over the world. As time passes, each of us will come to believe in the Power that led us here, the Power that spoke through us and to us, the Power that broke through the darkness to give us strength, hope, and peace.
There is a Presence among us that heals all of our hurts. Al-Anon brings us to a Power far greater than our deepest wounds or our darkest fears, just as that same Power brought each of us here.
By Dawn-Marie K., Washington
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