Monday 23 January
44 days sober
RR 100%

God,
Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change.
The courage to change the things I can.
And the wisdom to know the difference.
Amen
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Remember for today:
Keep repeating “God’s will” in your mind – all the time!
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God, give me the power to quieten and calm my mind so that I can hear your will. Please direct my decision making at all times, because my previous game plan for living that I came up with myself has produced disastrous results in terms of my happiness and peace of mind. I want you to do my thinking for me, I do not want to analyse decisions in life anymore using my own intellect and thinking.

I offer my work and effort to carry out your directions but please allow my mind to hear your broadcasting beacon which I know is in my soul, which I will always be able to hear if only I can quieten the static and noise of my own ruminations.

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God, make me an instrument of thy peace!
That where there is hatred, I may bring love.
That where there is wrong, I may bring the spirit of forgiveness.
That where there is discord, I may bring harmony.
That where there is error, I may bring truth.
That where there is doubt, I may bring faith.
That where there is despair, I may bring hope.
That where there are shadows, I may bring light.
That where there is sadness, I may bring joy.

God, grant that I may seek to comfort, rather than to be comforted.
Seek to understand, rather than to be understood.
Seek to love, rather than to be loved.
For it is by self-forgetting that one finds.
It is by forgiving that one is forgiven.
It is by dying that one awakens to Eternal Life.
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I have a potentially tricky situation coming up at work today. I know that I will feel emotionally compromised during this, but I just need to keep repeating “God’s will” in my mind. The emotional feeling is a reaction. I just need to keep my mouth shut for however long I need, 5-10 seconds might be all it takes for the emotional reaction to calm down. Then, I can consult God’s will (more atheist/agnostic minds than mine might call it common sense or gut feeling. Whatever you want to call it, it’s there) and I know that will guide me to the best action (even though I might not feel it is I have to believe it is because I’m powerless and there is no other choice!).