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bluidkiti · 03-25-2025, 06:20 AM

March 25

As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge.

~Henry Van Dyke

If nothing changes, nothing changes.

One reason people read books like this one or throng to meetings is they want change - if not total change, then at least a modification of the portions of their lives that cause them distress. There are always reasons for our being stuck in the places we are. Those reasons are often our habits and patterns. If the painful consequences of whatever we find hurtful in our lives are frequent and recurring, we have a negative pattern.

As long as those habits and patterns remain unchallenged, of course there will be nothing new. Habits are like machines routinely, consistently, stamping out the same product year after year. They can do nothing else. They are made to create that specific product.

Change demands new behaviors, new thoughts, and possibly new surroundings. Change demands the willingness to go to war with old habits. Frightening - yes. Exciting - even more so!

I am willing to risk the security of old ways for the prospect of happy, new tomorrows.

Today's reading is from the book Days of Healing, Days of Joy: Daily Meditations for Adult Children*

03-25-2025, 06:20 AM	#28
bluidkiti Administrator Join Date: Aug 2013 Posts: 75,622	March 25 As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge. ~Henry Van Dyke If nothing changes, nothing changes. One reason people read books like this one or throng to meetings is they want change - if not total change, then at least a modification of the portions of their lives that cause them distress. There are always reasons for our being stuck in the places we are. Those reasons are often our habits and patterns. If the painful consequences of whatever we find hurtful in our lives are frequent and recurring, we have a negative pattern. As long as those habits and patterns remain unchallenged, of course there will be nothing new. Habits are like machines routinely, consistently, stamping out the same product year after year. They can do nothing else. They are made to create that specific product. Change demands new behaviors, new thoughts, and possibly new surroundings. Change demands the willingness to go to war with old habits. Frightening - yes. Exciting - even more so! I am willing to risk the security of old ways for the prospect of happy, new tomorrows. Today's reading is from the book Days of Healing, Days of Joy: Daily Meditations for Adult Children* __________________ "No matter what you have done up to this moment, you get 24 brand-new hours to spend every single day." --Brian Tracy AA gives us an opportunity to recreate ourselves, with God's help, one day at a time. --Rufus K. When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. --Franklin D. Roosevelt We stay sober and clean together - one day at a time! God says that each of us is worth loving.