Acceptance

Here is a Zen Koan:
When you reach the top of a hundred foot pole
how do you move forward?

When you cannot move forward or backward; when you no longer can maintain footing on the tip of the pole; what do you do? The only answer is too surrender. For me it was to learn to accept all sides of myself, both the good and the bad.

taken from Heart of Forgiveness by Madeline Ko-I Bastis

I am at that place where I can't go forward and I can't go backwards. My way has landed my butt in this position. Therefore all I have left is to surrender and trust that with the help of my sponsor and my Higher Power I can get through this. I am grateful for the help of my sponsor. My job is too surrender and trust. As Scott Stapp syas in his song Broken.....Fear isn't real.

Anna Sent me this this afternoon too:

February 22

GUIDANCE...

this means a belief in a Creator who is all power, justice, and love; a God who intends for me a purpose, a meaning, and a destiny to grow, however.... haltingly, toward His own likeness and image.
AS BILL SEES IT, p. 51


As I began to understand my own powerlessness and my dependence on God, as I understand Him, I began to see that there was a life which, if I could have it, I would have chosen for myself from the beginning. It is through the continuing work of the Steps and the life in the Fellowship that I've learned to see that there is truly a better way into which I am being guided. As I come to know more about God, I am able to trust His ways and His plans for the development of His character in me. Quickly or not so quickly, I grow toward His own image and likeness.