Patience

Today's Thought

You are reading from the book Twenty Four Hours a Day Hardcover (24 Hours).

A.A. Thought for the Day

I have real friends where I had none before. My drinking companions could hardly be called my real friends, though when drunk we seemed to have the closest kind of friendship. My idea of friendship has changed. Friends are no longer people whom I can use for my own pleasure or profit. Friends are now people who understand me and I them, whom I can help and who can help me to live a better life. I have learned not to hold back and wait for friends to come to me, but to go half way and to be met half way, openly and freely. Does friendship have a new meaning for me?

Meditation for the Day

There is a time for everything. We should learn to wait patiently until the right time comes. Easy does it. We waste our energies in trying to get things before we are ready to have them, before we have earned the right to receive them. A great lesson we have to learn is how to wait with patience. We can believe that all our life is a preparation for something better to come when we have earned the right to it. We can believe that God has a plan for our lives and that this plan will work out in the fullness of time.

Prayer for the Day

I pray that I may learn the lesson of waiting patiently. I pray that I may not expect things until I have earned the right to have them.

I read this meditation this afternoon and it reallhit home for me. That part about waisting energy trying to get things before we are ready, before we have earned them stopped me in my tracks. I have spent so much time doing that very thing. When I finally surrender and let things happen in God's time instead of my time they always seem to work out for the best. When I try to get them all on my own they usually mess things up terribly. I'm trying to be patient and let that be proof enough to surrender my will to my Higher Power. Everyday I have to recommit myself to letting God will be my guidance. I also have to remember that it's progress not perfection and my baby steps are okay as long as I keep taking them. Today I made a choice to look at my day positively and it was a great day. I had every opportunity to be pissed and have a bad day and I have no doubt that it would have turned out to be a bad day. Having a good day was so much more productive and peaceful. Thanks to the guidance of my Higher Power and sponsors life is good.