I look forward to your participation at this Sunday Morning 10 AM (EST) Meeting here at the MIP Chatroom.
The topic of the meeting is today's Just For Today Meditation ~ A Loving God.
January 14 A Loving God
" Our understanding of a Higher Power is up to us.... The only suggested guidelines are that this Power be loving, caring, and greater than ourselves." Basic Text, p. 24
We've been told that we can believe in any kind of Higher Power we want as long as it is loving and, of course, greater than ourselves. Some of us, however, have trouble with these requirements. We either believe in nothing but ourselves, or we believe that anything that could be called "God" could only be cold-hearted and unreasonable, sending us bad luck on a whim.
Believing in a loving Power is quite a leap for some of us, for many reasons. The thought of turning our will and lives over to the care of something we think might hurt us is sure to fill us with reluctance. If we come into the program believing that God is judgmental and unforgiving, we must overcome those beliefs before we can be truly comfortable with the Third Step.
Our positive experiences in recovery can help us come to believe in a loving God of our own understanding. We have been given relief from a disease that has afflicted us for a long time. We've found the guidance and support we need to develop a new way of life. We've begun to experience a fullness of spirit where once there was only emptiness. These aspects of our recovery have their source in a loving God, not a harsh, hateful one. And the more we experience recovery, the more we'll trust that loving Higher Power.
Just for today: I will open my mind and my heart to believe that God is loving, and trust my loving Higher Power to do for me what I cannot do for myself.
pg. 14
Apart from this topic, we are free to share anything that is affecting our recovery today. So please participate with your presence and by sharing your experience, strength and hope with us. We need you.
Blessings and Peace.
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"If we do an honest examination of exactly what we are giving, we are better able to evaluate the results we are getting."Chapter 10 - Emotional Pain - NA Way of Life.
And as for you lack of participation, I guess we all, here at MIP, get the whole of you all the time here at the forum So glad we have you here with us. Have made my day many times, reading your shares and replies and interacting with you, sharing and caring the NA way...
Hugs and Love ~ Tahir.
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"If we do an honest examination of exactly what we are giving, we are better able to evaluate the results we are getting."Chapter 10 - Emotional Pain - NA Way of Life.
And as for you lack of participation, I guess we all, here at MIP, get the whole of you all the time here at the forum So glad we have you here with us. Have made my day many times, reading your shares and replies and interacting with you, sharing and caring the NA way...
Hugs and Love ~ Tahir.
I try my best my antisocial behavior gets the best of me sometimes but at least i'm not curling up into the fetal position and laying there for days on end with depression and total loss of my dignity like I used to so it is getting better LOL.
So glad we have you here with us. Have made my day many times, reading your shares and replies and interacting with you, sharing and caring the NA way...
