The material presented
here is not Al-Anon Conference Approved Literature. It is a method
to exchange
information, ideas, feelings, problems and solutions on a personal
level.
I went to a face to face meeting yesterday and this reading was part of our topic, Letting go. I really got a lot out of it...
In the past, joy was a rare visitor to many of us. Al-Anon recovery often leads us to find it more frequently. But instead of sitting back and enjoying these pleasant moments, we tend to cling desperately to happiness, trying to freeze time and hold change at bay, as if our joy will be snatched away forever the moment our guard is down. We can become too busy avoiding change to enjoy the gifts we fear to lose. By clutching at what we most want to keep, we lose it all the more rapidly. Change is inevitable. We can depend on that. When we become willing to accept change, we make room for a loving God. By letting go of our efforts to influence the future, we become freer to experience the present, to feel all of our feelings while they are happening, and to more fully enjoy those precious moments of joy with which we are blessed.
Today's Reminder: Today I will try to open myself to receive the abundance God holds out to me by experiencing what is and allowing God to decide what will be.
"The harder we try to catch hold of the moment, to seize a plesant sensation...., the more elusive it becomes.... It is like trying to clutch water in one's hands-the harder one grips, the faster it slips through ones fingers." Alan Watts
Change is inevitable. We can depend on that. When we become willing to accept change, we make room for a loving God. By letting go of our efforts to influence the future, we become freer to experience the present, to feel all of our feelings while they are happening, and to more fully enjoy those precious moments of joy with which we are blessed.
Thank You for posting this. I always wanted to freeze time and not let change happen. That is because I did not know how to Live In the Present, Focus on the Moment,and myself, let go of the past and trust HP to work it all out.
I am so grateful that I found alanon and decided to practice these principles in all my affaiirs. I must say that my life did not freeze, many things that I was given to handle I would have told you I could not handle, I have know joy, defeat, sadness and peace. I have learned how to be human with trust in this program and HP.
I am grateful to be a striving spiritual human being with the tools to live with courage, serenity and wisdom
