Trust That Guidance Will Come

Trust and act on the guidance you have now.

Some parts of our lives appear like a long, paved highway. We can see exactly where to go; we have a panoramic view. Other times, it may feel like we’re driving in the dark with only one headlight on a winding road through the fog. We can only see a few feet in front of the car.

Don’t worry if you can’t see that far ahead, if you only have a glimmer of light to guide your path. Slow down. Listen to your heart. Guidance will come. Trust what you hear. Do the small thing. Take that one step. Go as far as you can see.

Then go back to your heart, and you’ll hear the next step. It may be a step of immediate action, or deliberate inaction. Sometimes you may have to quiet down, wait, and prepare yourself to hear what you’re to do next.

Trust and act on the guidance
you have now, and more will come.

Today’s Meditation from:

Journey to the Heart: Daily Meditations on The Path To Freeing Your Soul by Melody Beattie

Clear Thinking

Strive for clear thinking. Many of us have had our thinking clouded by denial. Some of us have even lost faith in ourselves because we’ve spent a degree of time in denial. But losing faith in our thinking isn’t going to help us. What we need to lose faith is in denial.

We didn’t resort to denial–either of someone else’s problem or our own–because we were deficient. Denial, the shock-absorber for the soul, protects us until we are equipped to cope with reality.

Clear thinking and recovery don’t mean we will never resort to denial. Denial is the first step toward acceptance, and for most of our life, we will be striving to accept something.

Clear thinking means we don’t allow ourselves to become immersed in negativity or unrealistic expectations. We stay connected to other recovering people. We go to our meetings, where peace of mind and realistic support are available. We work the Steps, pray, and meditate.

We keep our thinking on track by asking our Higher Power to help us think clearly–not by expecting Him, or someone else, to do our thinking for us.

Today, I will strive for balanced, clear thought in all areas of my life.

Today’s Meditation from:

The Language of Letting Go by Melody Beattie
Hazelden Meditation Series

Melody Beattie on Commitment

Commitment

Have you ever made a commitment and immediately realized you’d made a mistake? It was more than just cold feet. You had promised to do something you knew you couldn’t do.

One of the challenges with commitments is human error. We change our mind. It could be that we didn’t think things through. Or maybe one commitment we made interfered with another important pledge. For instance, if we’re married to someone who is on a destructive path, our commitment to that person might interfere with the commitment we’ve made to our children and to ourselves.

The idea of committing is often easier than fulfilling the commitment itself. Many of the things we commit to, such as raising children, require hard work.

CHALLENGE: The hard thing about commitments isn’t making them. It’s following through. Commitments require consideration–which ones to make, which ones to break, which ones to complete. It’s serious business, this commitment thing.

52 Weeks of Conscious Contact: Meditations for connecting with God, Self, and Others by Melodie Beattie