NA Just for Today - June 2014

[MajestyJo]

June 16

Accepting Life

"Some things we must accept, others we can change. The wisdom to know the difference comes with growth in our spiritual program."

Basic Text, p.92

It's relatively easy to accept the things we like-it's the things we don't like that are hard to accept. But remaking the world and everyone in it to suit our tastes would solve nothing. After all, the idea that the world was to blame for all our problems was the attitude that kept us using-and that attitude nearly killed us.

In the course of working the steps, we begin to ask ourselves hard questions about the roles we ourselves have played in creating the unacceptable lives we've lived. In most cases, we've found that what needed changing was our own attitude and our own actions, not the people, places, and things around us.

In recovery, we pray for wisdom to know the difference between what can and can't be changed. Then, once we see the truth of our situation, we pray for the willingness to change ourselves.

Just for today: Higher Power, grant me the wisdom to know the difference between what can be changed and what I must accept. Please help me gratefully accept the life I've been given.

Acceptance has been the key to life. I was sharing with the nurse practiioner who came today to bandage my feet. With my arthritis and all the extra issues going on in today, it is important to accept what is. I ask myself what I need to do, how I can do it, and if I shouldn't do and leave it all up to my God.

Some days the pain feels not acceptable, but it is often what I did or didn't do, that got me to where I am in today. It doesn't have to be prior to recovery, I am still human and can get in the way of my health and well being. I sometimes ifnd myself just sitting in it, accepting what it is, but accepting that there are things I can do to make it better.