July 29 in The Little Blue Book ONE DAY at a TIME in AL-ANON

Old 07-29-2011, 12:06 AM
  # 1 (permalink)  
Present
Thread Starter
 
MeredithD1's Avatar
 
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: "Happy Rock" (Gladstone) Oregon
Posts: 1,360
July 29 in The Little Blue Book ONE DAY at a TIME in AL-ANON

July 29 in The Little Blue Book ONE DAY at a TIME in AL-ANON:

I will begin today to include an Al-Anon Quiet Time in each day, remembering this especially in times of family upheavals and dissension. If I provide the element of quiet in my home, I will at least not be adding to the turmoil.

Quiet can be achieved with complete silence, but if the silence has in it even a trace of anger or hostility, it loses all its power. A grim silence is even more challenging to a combatant than speech. True quiet has the quality of serenity, acceptance, peace.

I must remind myself of this constantly in times of stress.

TODAY’S REMINDER

I can persuade myself to be quiet by realizing that angry words cannot touch me unless I allow them to. Most angry words have no basis in logic or reason anyway, so why need they hurt me? If a wrathful explosion on the alcoholic’s part seems aimed at me, I will understand that it may only express his own guilt. I will not allow this to be shifted to my shoulders.

“In quiet and in silence, the truth is made clear…”
MeredithD1 is offline  

Currently Active Users Viewing this Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)
 
Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Trackbacks are On
Pingbacks are On
Refbacks are Off




All times are GMT -7. The time now is 08:11 AM.