Today I accept that recovery has changed my baseline of experience. When I release trauma, terror and rage, they are really gone. I used to have those emotions on top, and they could surface and apply themselves to any situation. Psychodramatically and therapeutically, I have blown them out of my system, and through sharing, my
I am not in a position to judge another person’s path. While people’s hearts are open to soul, that energy will find them in a highly individualized manner. Just as each child needs to be parented according to his or her own needs, each person will be brought toward soul according to his or her
I recognize the soul in others. I look past the superficial qualities that seem to separate us. Though we are different on the surface, in education, looks, position and power, one thing within each of us is the same-our humanness. Some are more in touch with this than others. Those who are better humans perhaps
Today I see that the only real point of power is in the present, which is to say that life cannot be lived backward or forward but only in the context of today. If I truly let myself have this moment and all that it contains, I will experience more in the way of
Forgiveness is a process that happens over time. It is tempting to stay stuck cycling within anger, generated by pain, or to become numb so that the pain will not be felt, or to go into denial and not admit to myself that I hurt. When I allow myself to feel a wound, I am
I will anchor my life in what cannot be seen. By going deep within myself, I will connect with the beyond and brush the hand of God. To realize deeper and deeper layers of consciousness is the work of a lifetime. It will keep me young and alive and in tune. I am anchored from
Rituals help me to access personal and universal meaning through the use of symbol and metaphor. I need this meaning, this device through which I can make order out of chaos or sense out of apparent senselessness, in order to give voice to my human experience and to ground my inner world in a larger
Today I accept my feelings of anger and blame without beating myself up for them. Feelings aren’t facts; they are meant to inform me of what is going on inside of me. When I constantly judge myself for what I feel, I make my difficult emotions much more complicated and they last ten times as
Today I will pray for a miracle in a situation that seems too much for me to handle or understand. There are times that I just don’t have what it takes to work a situation out. I’m too loaded up with fears and anxieties. What could it hurt to pray for a little divine guidance