Glenn H 
Supreme MINION
Posts: 161
 |
| 02/27/2007 2:24 PM |
 Alert
|
"The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitudes on life. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than success, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill. It will break or make a company... a church... a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is for you... you are in charge of your attitude."
Charles Swindell
Please take note that I gave credit where credit is due. Although perhaps I could have written something similair to this I did not. Charles Swindell did.
I do however find this to be close to my own attitude as well.
In the 9th step there are some promises. Perhaps you have heard them in meetings or had read them in the book. One of them is, "Our whole attitude and outlook upon life will change." Hopefully by then you have done alot of work in the steps proceeding these promises and can see that your whole attitude and outlook on life has changed. Has it?
In the 12th step it says "Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps..." My first sponsor told me that this was differant from the countless spiritual experiences I had had by then. (those were ah ha moments! When I could see the light or the action I had once done and change that direction through prayer and meditation and work. Or when I sat in a meeting and heard that one thing come from someone elses heart that God wanted me to hear and the goosebumps arrise. And yes that experience I had by the lake too was a spiritual experience.) For he told me that a spiritual awakening was a complete change of attitude. That by then I had done unimanagable amounts of work and have gotten down to causes and conditions and no longer lived under the influence or under the beliefs I once had that kept me drunk and in the dark.
How is your attitude today?
Glenn H |
|
Center your heart, and cultivate your spirit.
|
|
|