Today's Thought
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2006
You are reading from the book The Language of Letting Go.


Throwing Out the Rule Book

Many of us feel like we need a rulebook, a microscope, and a warranty to get through life. We feel uncertain, frightened. We want the security of knowing what's going to happen, and how we shall act.

We don't trust life or ourselves.

We don't trust the Plan.

We want to be in control.

"I've made terrible mistakes about my choices, mistakes that nearly destroyed me. Life has really shocked me. How can I trust myself? How can I trust life, and my instincts, after where I've been?" asked one woman.

It is understandable that we fear being crushed again, considering the way many of us were when we bottomed out on our codependency. We don't have to be fearful. We can trust our self, our path, and our instincts.

Yes, we want to avoid making the same mistakes again. We are not the same people we were yesterday or last year. We've learned, grown, changed. We did what we needed to do then. If we made a mistake, we cannot let that stop us from living and fully experiencing today.

We have arrived at the understanding that we needed our experiences - even our mistakes - to get to where we are today. Do we know that we needed our life to unfold exactly as it did to find ourselves, our Higher Power, and this new way of life? Or is part of us still calling our past a mistake?

We can let go of our past and trust ourselves now. We do not have to punish ourselves with our past. We don't need a rulebook, a microscope, a warranty. All we really need is a mirror. We can look into the mirror and say, "I trust you. No matter what happens, you can take care of yourself. And what happens will continue to be good, better than you think."

Today, I will stop clinging to the painful lessons of the past. I will open myself to the positive lessons today and tomorrow hold for me. I trust that I can and will take care of myself now. I trust that the Plan is good, even when I don't know what it is.



~~~~How right on this is for me right now, I've gone from working around 50 hours a week, hitting a meeting every nite, coming home, eating........and either sleeping or playing on puter some..........I had my set "schedule"......since I haven't been working the past month, God is definitely teaching me a lesson in the "One Day at a Time" dept...........not about drinking, but about not knowing what my day lies in store for me each morning. So........have been practicing more in my morning prayers, THY will, not mine be done.........and try to go out and just keep doing the next right thing in front of me, not worrying about tomorrow..........even with a wedding gast approaching, just wanting to do HIS will, and go about my day and let HIM be in charge, and act like a sober woman.........I thank God this is a process, not an event!