Daily
Reflections reading March 17th
Mysterious Ways
out
of every season of grief or suffering, when the hand of God seemed heavy or
even unjust, new lessons for living were learned, new resources of courage were
uncovered, and that finally, inescapably, the conviction came that God does
“move in a mysterious way His wonders to perform.” TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE
TRADITIONS, p. 105
After
losing my career, family and health, I remained unconvinced that my way of life
needed a second look. My drinking and other drug use were killing me, but I had
never met a recovering person or an A.A. member. I thought I was destined to
die alone and that I deserved it. At the peak of my despair, my infant son
became critically ill with a rare disease. Doctors’ efforts to help him proved
useless. I redoubled my efforts to block my feelings, but now the alcohol had
stopped working. I was left staring into God’s eyes, begging for help. My
introduction to A.A. came within days, through an odd series of coincidences,
and I have remained sober ever since. My son lived and his disease is in
remission. The entire episode convinced me of my powerlessness and the
unmanageability of my life. Today my son and I thank God for his intervention.
© Alcoholics
Anonymous World Services
My
thoughts on March 17th Reading
Individual adventures are something each one of us has to
work out in our own way, I am praying its object is always the same to improve
our conscious contact with God meditation is in reality intensely practical,
one of its first fruits is emotional balance, working in mysterious ways
With it I can deepen the channel between myself and God, as
I understand Him, my emotional balance is greatly affected, by how I act or
react to a situation that comes up when I am right with Gods will, I am in
balance with how to act upon any situation happening
The moment I use free, will to try to control a situation,
then I find myself unbalanced emotionally so the use of pray and meditation is
essential, to keep me in this emotional balance in everything I do prayer is
the raising of the heart and mind to God asking for his help in my daily
affairs
Asking that his will, not mine be done this day, pray is a
petition to God's grace and serenity having opened the channel as best I could,
I try to ask for things of which I am greatest need of knowledge of His will
for me and the power to carry it out
A request for this fits in any part of my day, in the
morning I pray for knowledge of how to be useful and helpful to myself and
others, even when some special problem I need Gods guidance I don't ask for
specific solutions, to specific problems, or for the ability to help other
people
As I have already thought they should be helped, I had to
consider each prayer carefully to see what its real merit is I had to add to
each one of them this qualification if it be Thy will, I ask simply God to
place in me the best possible understanding of His will that I can have
And that I my be given the grace by which I may carry out
His will for me, the results of prayer are beyond question they are matters of
knowledge and experience, myself all those who have persisted have found
strength not ordinarily their own truly mysterious ways happen
I have found wisdom beyond my usual capability and I have
increasingly found peace of mind for me this is all that we are seeing in our
sons difficult times ahead of him with out pray I know he would have been taken
home to God five years ago with out people praying for him
One of the greatest rewards of meditation and prayer is the
sense of belonging that comes to me I no longer live in a completely hostile
world I am no longer lost and frightened and purposeless the moment I caught that
glimpse of God's will the moment I begin to see truth justice and love
As the real and eternal things in life I am now no longer
deeply disturbed by all the seeming evidence to the contrary that surrounds me
in purely human affairs I know that God lovingly watches over me I know that
when we turn to Him all will be well with us here and hereafter
God Bless you Al M
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