Today's Gift for Families - April 2014

[MajestyJo]

Wednesday, April 23, 2014

You are reading from the book Today's Gift

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear not absence of fear.
—Mark Twain

It is not unusual to feel afraid. It is unusual, however, to hear anyone admit to feeling afraid. Sometimes we think there are some people who are so cool and calm that they never feel afraid. This may make us think we're not as good because we know how often we feel afraid. This is why it is important to think about what courage really is. It is not the absence of fear. Courage is not letting fear stop us from doing what we need to do.

We might have to get up in front of a group to give a speech. We could give in to our fear and not give the speech, or we could admit our fear to those who love us, and then go ahead and do the best we can. To go ahead in the face of fear is courage.

What am I afraid of?

Love the quote, we overcome our fears instead of trying to make them all go away.

When I went to see an intuitive healer many years ago, they say that issues with our feet and ankles, represented insecurities.
My meditation last night affirmed that, the thought of not being able to get around, makes me fearful. Fear of walking and falling down and not being able to get back up.

The difference today, it isn't about falling into active addiction, and it isn't about falling because I am drunk or stoned, but every day issues and not being able to take care of myself in my own apartment.

God and I have to do some more work on that. I know He is there for me, but more importantly, I need to be there for myself and practice self-care. To do that, I need to replenish my faith, and go to my God for the strength, courage, and what ever else I need to live in today, clean and sober.

Even though I haven't used drugs and alcohol, I have to work on my emotional sobriety, and change all obsessive, compulsive disorders thinking and actions, into something healthy and balance my life, so there are not those extreme highs and lows.