Thursday 26 January
47 days sober
RR 95%
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.
Thy will, not mine be done.
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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Feeling rather groggy and tired this morning. Going to be a seriously cold winter’s day here, but after today it’s going to be a lot warmer for at least couple of weeks (well warmer than today anyway!). Yeah so not the most appealing weather to go to a meeting after work but it’s got to be done! Grateful for 47 days sober and want desperately to keep that run going. Felt like I was having a few triggered thoughts last night about acting out. Nothing too disastrous but I would have to say my RR has dipped below 100% so got to get to a meeting asap.