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As we walk through life, there are many things and people we may lose, or lose out on, if we are unwilling to commit. We need to make a commitment for relationships to grow beyond the dating stage, to have the home or apartment we want, the job we want, or the car we desire.We must commit, on deep levels, to careers, to goals, to family, friends, and recovery. Trying something will not enable us to succeed. Committing ourselves will. Yet, we need never commit before we are ready.Sometimes, our fear of commitment is telling us something. We may not want to commit to a particular relationship, purchase, or career. Other times, it is a matter of our fears working their way out. Wait, then. Wait until the issue becomes clear.Trust yourself. Ask your Higher Power to remove your fear of commitment. Ask God to remove your blocks to commitment. Ask God for guidance.Ask yourself if you are willing to lose what you will not commit to. Then listen, quietly. And wait until a decision seems consistently right and comfortable.We need to be able to commit, but we need never commit until we are ready. Trust that you will commit when you want to.God, guide me in making my commitments. Give me the courage to make those that are right for me, the wisdom to not commit to that which does not feel right, and the patience to wait until I know.Melody Beattie ©

God made each of us, and God doesn't make mistakes. The first step in living a soul-sized life is recognition, a re-cognition, re-thinking of who we really are. We are not our personality or our history. That's all part of our human experience, but we are more than that. We are spirit, having a human experience. Practice this week staying in the re-cognition of yourself as a daughter or a son of God.Mary Manin Morrissey

AA Thought of the Day / If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we are half way through. We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness. / AA, p. 83
We are blessed when we are truly seen and appreciated for who we are. We all need people to hold the space for our greater truth to be known until we can see it for ourselves. Finding our way back to our path and purpose can be a lifelong journey. Some people are lucky and discover it early in life. However, most of us struggle with this journey and often fall down or get lost along the way. And that's okay. There is no such thing as a mistake when you are truly working toward finding your path. What matters is that you keep making the effort. Our task is to simply keep moving toward the light until we can see.
Deborah Price

There is one thing in this world that you must never forget to do. If you forget everything else and not this, there's nothing to worry about; but if you remember everything else and forget this, then you will have done nothing in your life. It is as if a king has sent you to some country do a task, and you perform a hundred other services, but not the one he sent you to do. So human beings come to this world to do particular work. The work is the purpose, and each is specific to the person.
Rumi

Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life--learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.Robert Fulghum

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.Aldous Huxley

“It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.”Ralph Ellison