When I saw the opening quote it took me back to the early years of my sobriety where I HAD to learn how to live one day at a time.
For those of us in recovery, our minds have a tendency of racing due to our regrets of yesterday and the anxiety of approaching an unknown tomorrow without our drug of choice to calm ourselves and/or give us the “courage” to take it on.
For the first few years of my recovery, living in the moment was a life and death proposition for me and it eventually became a habit.
The biggest destroyer of personal peace is living our lives in areas which don’t exist–yesterday and today.
The questions below are geared toward protecting your peace by helping you stay in the moment…I wrote them from much experience.
Deuteronomy 33:25, “May the bolts of your gates be of iron and bronze; may you be secure all your days.” (NLT)
Journal your thoughts:
What am I grateful for today?
In what way(s) will I bring light to the world today?
What will I deny myself so I may draw closer to God and gain more peace in my life today?
Prayer:
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time, enjoying one moment at a time; accepting hardship as the pathway to peace.
Taking, as He did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it.
Trusting that He will make all things right if I surrender to His will.
That I may be reasonably happy in this life, and supremely happy with Him forever in the next. Amen.
(Serenity Prayer – Reinhold Niebuhr)
P.E.A.C.E.
Jay@EagleLaunch.com
