My meditation for today is below. I have been very bitter over the years with past resentments with not being able to control people around me. Especially If I think they are trying to hurt me. I just don't do that anymore. It has caused me so many mental health issues. I will slip into this mode anything I feel threaten very easily. Today, I set boundaries and I enforce them with the help of my higher power. I forgive myself for depending on other people instead of depending on God to get my needs met. I can forgive people for the things they have done to me and let it go. That doesn't mean I have to accept unaceptable behaviors. I just need to take care of Carol.
DAY 222
I let go of my attachment to the pain of my past. Often, it’s said we can be bitter or we can be better. Today I choose not to be bitter, for my bitterness will create more reasons to be so. As I rethink my past, forgiving myself and others, I release myself from the damage of old wounds. My clinging to old hurts might inspire sympathy for a time, or even temporary support from others. But it will not inspire invitations to start over, from other people or from the universe itself. I can have a grievance or a miracle; I cannot have both.
I place my grievances in the hands of God, and pray for deliverance beyond my attachment to bitter wounds. I let go of my grasping at what I cannot change, and pray for a miracle to release me from my pain. I surrender all thoughts of judgment and revenge, that I might now be free.
Williamson, Marianne. A Year of Miracles: Daily Devotions and Reflections (The Marianne Williamson Series) (p. 243). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition.
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