"Many of us have found that setting aside quiet time for ourselves is helpful in making conscious contact with our Higher Power."
Basic Text, p. 95
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Most of us pay lip-service to the value of conscious contact with a Higher Power. Yet how many of us consistently take time to improve that conscious contact? If we've not already established a regular regimen of prayer and meditation, today is the day to start one.
A quiet time need not be long. Many of us find that twenty to thirty minutes is enough time to quiet ourselves, focus our attention with a spiritual reading, share our thoughts and concerns in prayer, and take a few moments to listen for an answer in meditation. Our quiet time need not be lengthy to be effective, provided it is consistent. Twenty minutes taken once a month to pray will probably do little but frustrate us with the poor quality of our conscious contact. Twenty minutes taken regularly each day, however, renews and reinforces an already lively contact with our Higher Power.
In the hustle and bustle of the recovering addicts day, many of us end up going from morning to night without taking time out to improve our conscious contact with the God we've come to understand. However, if we set aside a particular time of the day, every day, as quiet time, we can be sure that our conscious contact will improve.
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Just for today: I will set aside a few moments, once I finish reading today's entry, to pray and meditate. This will be the beginning of a new pattern for my recovery.
I have caught myself not even taking time to pray as my day is starting I have had to force myself to stop, right where I am at and say the Lords Prayer and to thanks God for this day thats why I am here now, to read something, to stop and think about things because I often wake to my angry life, my life of strife and responsibility's. Physical pain in the morning makes me mad LOL having to make a pot of coffee, cook my healthy breakfast, pet my animals who want nothing but a little attention. Im ungrateful most of the time how can I expect to remain clean this way how about staying clean but not serene> thats miserable and does no one any good because I go out into the world now and share my misery with others.
Yesterday I noticed at the grocery store happy people being nice to each other joking and playing with each other, making the best of life and it made me smile seeing that. I didnt feel apart of it I felt separate.
We need patterns we need structure and we need our higher powers always this much I know for me.
