For Today: May 5th

For Today: May 5^th

No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Whether an experience brings me pleasure or pain, there is always one great benefit: the slow unfolding of new understanding. Gradually, as I do my best to practice the principles of this program, a new person emerges: I am beginning to accept myself, yielding to reality, to the slow and nurturing way of nature.

When I feel impatient, I turn and look at what that measured pace of growth has wrought. I see resentments disappear, hurts heal, and in their place, the ability to love and forgive myself and others, as God loves and forgives me.

For Today: A flower takes a season to grow, a tree long years to mature. Each growing thing, myself included, has a timetable for growth.

Each event in my life is given to me by God as a blessing to learn from. Things do not unfold on MY 

 timetable; they unfold as God wishes them to. For my whole life I lived according to MY wishes and MY wants, never taking into account what God had in store FOR me. I wound up spinning my wheels and never feeling satisfied, running around like a rat on a wheel. 

Nowadays, I learn as much if not more from painful experiences as I do pleasurable ones.  Whether I am impatient or tolerant, events will play out the way they will play out.  As long as I keep the principles of the program foremost in my life, I can deal with whatever life has in store for me.  As long as I keep my integrity intact, I can figure out what to do in most situations, with God’s help & guidance of course.  Decisions become easier to make because I have a program to guide me, every step of the way. When I am unsure which direction to take, I ask God for guidance & sit back & wait for the answer to reveal itself.

For today, I am able to love myself, forgive myself & others, because God loves and forgives me! If I am good enough & worthy enough in His eyes, I AM good enough!