Just For Today Febuary 27
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Just For Today Febuary 27
February 27 "Pure" motives
"We examine our actions, reactions, and motives. We often find that
we've been doing better than we've been feeling."
Basic Text, p. 42
Imagine a daily meditation book with this kind of message: "When you
wake up in the morning, before you rise from your bed, take a moment for
reflection. Lie back, gather your thoughts, and consider your plans for
the day. One by one, review the motives behind those plans. If your
motives are not entirely pure, roll over and go back to sleep:' Nonsense,
isn't it?
No matter how long we've been clean, almost all of us have mixed
motives behind almost everything we do. However, that's no reason to put our
lives on hold. We don't have to wait for our motives to become
perfectly pure before we can start living our recovery.
As the program works its way into our lives, we begin acting less
frequently on our more questionable motives. We regularly examine ourselves,
and we talk with our sponsor about what we find. We pray for knowledge
of our Higher Power's will for us, and we seek the power to act on the
knowledge we're given. The result? We don't get perfect, but we do get
better.
We've begun working a spiritual program. We won't ever become spiritual
giants. But if we look at ourselves realistically, we'll probably
realize that we've been doing better than we've been feeling.
Just for today: I will examine myself realistically. I will seek the
power to act on my best motives, and not to act on my worst.
pg. 59
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------"We examine our actions, reactions, and motives. We often find that
we've been doing better than we've been feeling."
Basic Text, p. 42
Imagine a daily meditation book with this kind of message: "When you
wake up in the morning, before you rise from your bed, take a moment for
reflection. Lie back, gather your thoughts, and consider your plans for
the day. One by one, review the motives behind those plans. If your
motives are not entirely pure, roll over and go back to sleep:' Nonsense,
isn't it?
No matter how long we've been clean, almost all of us have mixed
motives behind almost everything we do. However, that's no reason to put our
lives on hold. We don't have to wait for our motives to become
perfectly pure before we can start living our recovery.
As the program works its way into our lives, we begin acting less
frequently on our more questionable motives. We regularly examine ourselves,
and we talk with our sponsor about what we find. We pray for knowledge
of our Higher Power's will for us, and we seek the power to act on the
knowledge we're given. The result? We don't get perfect, but we do get
better.
We've begun working a spiritual program. We won't ever become spiritual
giants. But if we look at ourselves realistically, we'll probably
realize that we've been doing better than we've been feeling.
Just for today: I will examine myself realistically. I will seek the
power to act on my best motives, and not to act on my worst.
pg. 59
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Originally Posted by luckyv2
When you wake up in the morning, before you rise from your bed, take a moment for reflection. Lie back, gather your thoughts, and consider your plans for the day. One by one, review the motives behind those plans. If your motives are not entirely pure, roll over and go back to sleep
No matter how long we've been clean, almost all of us have mixed
motives behind almost everything we do. However, that's no reason to put our lives on hold. We don't have to wait for our motives to become
perfectly pure before we can start living our recovery.
As the program works its way into our lives, we begin acting less
frequently on our more questionable motives. We regularly examine ourselves,
and we talk with our sponsor about what we find. We pray for knowledge
of our Higher Power's will for us, and we seek the power to act on the
knowledge we're given. The result? We don't get perfect, but we do get
better.
No matter how long we've been clean, almost all of us have mixed
motives behind almost everything we do. However, that's no reason to put our lives on hold. We don't have to wait for our motives to become
perfectly pure before we can start living our recovery.
As the program works its way into our lives, we begin acting less
frequently on our more questionable motives. We regularly examine ourselves,
and we talk with our sponsor about what we find. We pray for knowledge
of our Higher Power's will for us, and we seek the power to act on the
knowledge we're given. The result? We don't get perfect, but we do get
better.
For me this is the walking.. ( the talking) Writing about it, thinking about it, discussing it are all well and good, but when I'm full of what I think is righteous indignation and ready to confront someoene and make them see their lack of humility, (and deep down inside I know I'm off the hook by the knot in my stomach), I get up and to the battle on all the wrong fuel. nearly al the time something happens enroute to sluff away all the hostilities and indignities I think I suffered and I show up right where God wants me to be so he can then grace me with the opportunity to do what he's wanted me to in the first place. ( Which is really all I ever wanted to be anyway.)
Some of the most gracious acts of kindness, forgiveness, and generosity, I've ever seen have come from situations rooted in selfish and inhospitable beginnings.
Does this make any sense?
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