the topics of step 2 and faith connect with me today. I was getting into a " mundane about life" kind of place a couple weeks back and I thought I'd share on what came up for me at an ealrier meeting incase anyone in here identifies, too.

Life seemed very dull and routines felt so meaningless--As usual, the problem was about me and my connection with my hp not really about any of the other things I may have wanted to name it

Someone wise once said our only problem is having stepped away from our faith manifesting itself as a seeming outside problem---we just THINK it is financials, a relationship issue or this or that

So it is with the duldrums about my life at times, if I want to I can ask my HP to make me willing to C the gifts in my life, to see all the little miracles around me that are there about me always…

They are just waiting to be seen, I have to just change my focus and most of all be willing 2 c things thru HP’s eyes not my human ones. When I do I see that I am an important part of life’s ebb and flow

Maybe it is the little things I do at home that make it a nice safe environment for others. People I touch thru working. If I listen perhaps I hear HP thanking me when I seem to get know thanks for the hundreds of little ( seemingly minor in themselves )details I take care of

Maybe it is coming in here or to an f2f meeting and being an instrument or letting someone at a meeting know how much their share meant, or smiling at a stranger in a store or on offering a hand to someone on the street struggling with grocery bags and the car door

who knows what impact a little thing like that may have on someone who is in negative thought pattern I am finding things can feel like really holy little events if I just change the way I think about them

Example: even the act of drinking a glass of water, I can give thanks for its relative purity, for the fact that I don’t have to climb a hill with a pail on my head to get it like they still do in parts of this world

even the act of drinking water can be kind of haoly thing if I think about all the many things/places this H2O has been over millions of years. Cuz we only have a finite amount of water on the planet

so before my sink maybe the water I drink has been the drink of a pharoah, the needed/ & prayed 4 rain in a dry desert, in the body of a dinosaur, a giant redwood tree etc.

the process of how it gets cleanly back into my glass is pretty miraculous in itself as are many many things I take 4 granted each day. I need to take control of how I look at the world, my attitude and sanity are up to me (but not me alone without HP’s help each day)

I have 2 trust that when I can’t C the meaning my self that my HP can and will show me. That is my thought for the day on step 2—anyone else want to share how they stay at step 2 & 3 I still have much to learn as do many of us who come in and read and share in here.