Morning all!
Ellis: I am a total spiller...plus my "girls" act like a shelf and like to collect crumbs.
My dinner was a lot of fun. It was good seeing my friend and good making a new one. And shopping was fun. Got a new bra, some shirts, and a new purse at the Gap.
Today's meditation:
March 23 "Inner Harvest"
Hazelden Meditation Series
We cultivate wisdom when we accept and embrace reality.
Reality is something we cannot change. We can try to deny it, escape
it, alter or destroy it, but reality remains intact. Our eating
disorder was, in part, an attempt to deny reality. We tried to alter
situations we didn't like by eating more or eating less, but the real
problems did not get solved either way.
When we are exhausted from our futile efforts to manipulate it, we
can relax and let reality be. We may even discover that the way
things really are is better than the way we thought we would like
them to be.
When we say yes to our world as it is today--just for today--we free
ourselves from the cobwebs of illusion so that we can work on what is
actual. There may be no easy solutions to our problems, but facing
them as they are is infinitely more productive than denying them. The
longer we live in the real world, the better we like it.
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I pray for the wisdom to make a loving commitment today to what is.