MajestyJo |
09-23-2014 02:13 AM |
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Tuesday, September 23, 2014
You are reading from the book Food for Thought
Positive Leads
As our serenity grows, the clamour and confusion inside our heads die down. Instead of being pulled in many different directions and uncertain of which way to turn, we gradually discern the positive voice that leads us forward. Rather than trying to analyze all possible alternatives intellectually, we gain the confidence to choose the positive way without agonizing indecision.
To worry and speculate about the roads not taken is counter productive and wasteful of our energies. We pray that we may know the will of our Higher Power for us, and then we act according to the best of our knowledge. The more we practice listening to the still, small voice within, the more positive direction we will receive.
The mental calmness which we experience as we abstain from compulsive overeating clears away our former confusion. We may make mistakes, but as long as we can admit them and stay in contact with our Higher Power, we will continue to follow His positive leads.
Keep me on Your positive path.
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As my spiritual adviser says, "If you don't know, then it isn't the right time. If you pray and ask, you will know."
I like the word clamour, haven't heard it for a long time, maybe because I am old. I get a picture that includes symbols, and all the noise that goes on inside my head at times, that I have trouble hearing the good orderly good direction when it comes, because I don't make time to to find a quiet time to listen. There is even more chaos with our own voices saying, "Should I, shouldn't I? or the infamous, what if? etc. that keeps our minds so busy that if the voice came our way, we wouldn't hear it. Everything and everyone is clamouring for attention, and we shut down and shut off, and we hear, see, and all our senses are shut off. That is when we say, "Did you ring?" Like my father use to to me, "When you have your head in a book, the house could burn down around us and you would not be aware. You completely shut down and you hear nothing."
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