Daily
Reflections reading March 4th
Weeding The Garden
The
essence of all growth is a willingness to make a change for the better and then
an unremitting willingness to shoulder whatever responsibility this entails. AS
BILL SEES IT, p. 115
By the
time I had reached Step Three I had been freed of my dependence on alcohol, but
bitter experience has shown me that continuous sobriety requires continuous
effort. Every now and then I pause to take a good look at my progress. More and
more of my garden is weeded each time I look, but each time I also find new
weeds sprouting where I thought I had made my final pass with the blade. As I
head back to get the newly sprouted weed (it’s easier when they are young), I
take a moment to admire how lush the growing vegetables and flowers are, and my
labors are rewarded. My sobriety grows and bears fruit.
© Alcoholics Anonymous World Services
My thoughts on March 4th Reading
We all know one thing for sure in the garden
of life, you will have to weed, I had to spent a lot of time weeding and
digging in the garden of my life, my thoughts went to the actual meaning and
purpose of weeding and how it is like the path of my old life into my new life
The process of weeding is to find the beauty
in what I should now be doing in my life. I need to be looking and making
changes that move my new life toward what I want it to be, weeding the garden I
had remove the "bad things" from my life like self centeredness, anger
and fear
I needed to look at the world I was
living in, making changes I feel are right with the people in my life, weeding
my garden is the best way to put it, I had to chose between my old party
friends, to my new sober friends who now enhance my garden of life
I
had to be careful about the weeding and slowly take action, the process of changing
is just that, "a process" and this means that I really need to feel
the soil of my own life and take a look at the various things in it to make
adjustments to better my sober life
It isn't the way of the world for me to
make it the way I want it, like I did in my past, It is my being attuned to the
world, listening to others not casting away people like they are just another
weed in my garden I have to let the changes occur
I just can't identify weeds or goals then
take action, I have to first listen to what these things are trying to say to
me and change what is not in God’s will for me or them, I have to always
remember it is God’s garden I am weeding
I was the one who let the weeds grow, now
I need to let him show me what weeds need to be removed and what weeds I should
cultivate, after all I was once one of the weeds in another’s garden and know
someone took the time to cultivate me and watch me grow towards God's light
I try today to cultivates wisdom, true
knowledge, the results are inner peace, satisfaction, patience, respect for
others, freedom from self, compassion, joyfulness, and remembering just who's
garden I am weeding, life is like an onion you peel it off layer by layer and
sometimes you cry
Today
life isn't about finding myself after weeding out my garden, life is about
changing myself, becoming a better person for the weeding out of my faults, and
being sure I do not hurt another in this process weeding takes time
I don't want to get to the end of my life
and find that I lived just the length of it I really do want to live the width
of it as well, I have been given new hope and love thru walking the weeded path
of my life towards that sun light that is God as I understand Him today
"Life is not lost by dying life is
lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways,
promise to keep on living as though you expected to live forever, nobody grows
old by merely living a number of years People grow old by deserting their
ideals years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up wrinkles the soul."
author unknown
I could not have put it better myself I
will not give up on anyone today I have a soul that cares about all of the
children in God's garden and I am thankful someone did not thru me away when
they we weeding their garden, remember a weed to you maybe life for another
cultivated them
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