Reflection for the Day
On
studying the Twelve Steps, many of the first members of the program
exclaimed, “What an order! I can’t go through with it.” “Do not be
discouraged,” we’re told at meeting after meeting. “No one among us has
been able to maintain anything like perfect adherence to these
principles. We are not saints. The point is that we are willing to grow
along spiritual lines. The principles we have set down are guides to
progress. We claim spiritual progress rather than spiritual perfection.”
Can I believe, in the words of Browning,that my business is not to
remake myself, but to make the absolute best of what my Higher Power
made?
Today I Pray
Even
if I am an old hand at the program, may I not forget that the Twelve
Steps do not represent an achievement that can be checked off my “things
to do” list. Instead, they are a striving for an ideal, a guide to
getting there. May I keep my mind open to deepening interpretations of
these principles.
Today I Will Remember
Progress rather than perfection.
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