Saturday, 4/18/09 - "POSITIVE POSSIBILITIES"

(Positively joyful!)

"POSITIVE POSSIBILITIES"

I attended my Friday Al-Anon 11th Step Meditation meeting today. Following are a few excerpts from the reading we meditated on from, "Having Had a Spiritual Awakening", p. 50.

"I am not a body with a spirit, I am a spirit living in a body."

"...sees the deeper reality of my spiritual progress -
a desire to express compassion and love in daily life."


"How has my Al-Anon experience with the God
of my understanding helped me express
love and caring in other areas of my life?"

This was such a spiritual meeting. What I took away from it was a tremendous sense of the POSITIVE POSSIBILITIES that life offers. The degree to which I practice spiritual principles determines how positive my life will be.

These are some of the spiritual actions I try to practice regularly to help create "Positive Possibilities":

• Using affirmations

• Acknowledging problems and focusing on solutions

• Using the power of prayer

• Providing positive words of encouragement to myself and others

• Recognizing God in all things

• Bringing God into every interaction with others

• Asking God and allowing Him to express Himself in what I think, say, and do

• Giving the glory and honor to God
  

• Being sensitive to knowing when a newcomer is in the room when they have not identified themselves

• Reaching out to the newcomer

• Encouraging the newcomer and the old timer in trouble

• Living the 12 steps

• Having compassion for struggling alcoholics and Al-Anoners

• Having compassion for those who have succumbed to the disease of alcoholism
  

• Being grateful

Prayer Girl

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