my daily reflections…

i believe today, after my time in recovery, havin seen and lived the results of it, that faith is the bridge between God and i. it is with Him that i get to live and experience the freedoms that life provides. within those freedoms are lessons i get to experience. i aint gonna try to go to tellin ya’ll that i do everythin in my life as right as i can or that my life is white as a new fallen snow, cause i dont, and it aint. i live today by the example that those who came into recovery showed me, those that live by recoveries spiritual principles. i also get to learn from those who dont, who still live solely by their own will power. both groups of people have been put in my life by God to teach me what to do and what not to do. when i make mistakes i reach out to those in recovery and my HP and seek guidance on how i can fix the problems i make through miscalculation or livin solely on my own self-will. i have found that when i take the time to actively clear the wreckage i alone create, i get to draw nearer to my HP. by seekin guidance from others and Him, whether through prayer and meditation or directly from Him through others, i get to live with the freedom i mentioned earlier. learnin, yet more, about myself and how i may serve my HP and others with grace. and it may even be that learnin the lessons life has to offer me, that i grow stronger from the experience of havin helped another person rather than helpin myself by simply reachin out. whether the concatenation is immediately seen or felt within or understood later, the lessons are there when i actively live my life. when i am the first to extend compassion and understandin, to offer the "olive branch" of peace, and to give others the benefit of the doubt, i get the opportunity to open myself to receivin forgiveness. when i recognize the teachin given by my HP i have an opportunity to deal with them constructively. i get to accept my daily problems for what they are without blowin em out of proportion, makin em worse than they truly are. as i have learned, the solution is simple, the solution is spiritual. 1 day @ a time...