WE ASK FOR HELP – We neither grovel … nor do we demand … .” “We may [however] pray, meditate, visualize, write, speak aloud, or sing our requests. But whatever form we choose, we communicate our desire to be free from excess baggage. We simply speak from the heart.” (How Al Anon Works, p. 57)
“Ask, and it will be given you; Seek, and you will find; Knock, and it will be opened to you.” – Jesus of Nazareth ((7~2) BC – (26~36) AD) spiritual leader of Christianity
What has your experience with humility taught you, lately?
[A]sk Me – an upbeat tune by – The Smiths (3:09)
The Missing Years of Jesus (5:42)
A Popular Zen Relaxation Meditation (9:43)
Ask Me
by William Safford
Some time when the river is ice ask me
mistakes I have made. Ask me whether
what I have done is my life. Others
have come in their slow way into
my thought, and some have tried to help
or to hurt: ask me what difference
their strongest love or hate has made.
I will listen to what you say.
You and I can turn and look
at the silent river and wait. We know
the current is there, hidden; and there
are comings and goings from miles away
that hold the stillness exactly before us.
What the river says, that is what I say.
I completely made an error and left a meeting early recently. IN this case, I put my need not to try and let down my friends ahead of my recovery. Which I think ended up letting them down anyways.
Good morning everyone + Happy Monday. Today during my morning prayer + meditation, I came across a saying from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. + I would like to share it with you. “Whatever affects one, affects all. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be, + you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be.” So, let us work together so that we can become what we ought tot be. Blessings. BB
I”m slowly learning that being humble means not to have unreasonable expectations of others. This also helps to keep emotions on an even keel.
I got to go to two meetings yesterday and found great messages of surviving childhood trauma, learning to forgive, setting boundaries for myself and others, and learning to forgive. Learning to forgive. Learning to forgive. Forgiveness holds so much relief for me and yet my old crutch was to hang on to resentments. Resentments are hard to let go of and even harder to hold onto. I learn to forgive every day – myself ad others.