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[MajestyJo]

Thought for the Day

Tuesday, JUNE 5

From the book: Touchstones


Where there is no strife there is decay: "The mixture which is not shaken decomposes."

—Heraclitus

Transitions and changes are often painful, sometimes frightening. Often the most troubled lives are those most unyielding to change. When we become so committed to stability that we cannot flow with the never- ending river of life, we wither and die spiritually. Every one of us has changes moving within our lives. Some changes are beneath the surface and we only vaguely sense them. Others are obvious and we are dealing with their effects. When we see change only as a problem or as pain, we have a harder time getting on with our lives

Looking back, we can see other changes we would never have chosen or planned for ourselves. We can see now that we grew with them. Change forced us into new realms, and we found sides of ourselves we hadn't known before. Through whatever strife and difficulty of change we face today, we have a stable program to fall back on. And we have our relationship with our Higher Power, which is with us through all times.

I will try to have a lighter grip upon life today so that as the river of change flows, I can flow with it.

i was told if there wasn't strife, we wouldn't appreciate the good times when they came, we would take them for granted. We need to strive for our recovery. We have to be willing to do what ever it takes in order to recover.