When I saw the opening quote, it took me back to the early years of my sobriety, where I HAD to learn how to live one day at a time.
Early recovery involves intensive retraining of the mind. We are guilt-ridden from our behaviors of yesterday while highly anxious about taking on tomorrow without our substance to give us courage.
For the first few years of my recovery, living in the moment was a life-and-death proposition for me, and it eventually became a habit.
The biggest destroyer of personal peace is living our lives in areas which don’t exist–yesterday and today.
Deuteronomy 33:25, “May the bolts of your gates be of iron and bronze; may you be secure all your days.” (NLT)
Journal your thoughts:
What am I grateful for today?
In what way(s) will I bring light to the world today?
What will I deny myself so I may draw closer to God and gain more peace in my life today?
Prayer:
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time, enjoying one moment at a time; accepting hardship as the pathway to peace.
Taking, as He did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it.
Trusting that He will make all things right if I surrender to His will.
That I may be reasonably happy in this life, and supremely happy with Him forever in the next. Amen.
(Serenity Prayer – Reinhold Niebuhr)
P.E.A.C.E.
Jay@EagleLaunch.com
