Tuesday April 14th reflection

Today has such a great description of how balance looks.  Keeping materialistic things in perspective and enlarge spirituality to the center of my life.  This is where i can be aspiration in my identification. I hope it's okay with God that I minimize the material and grow the spiritual. I'm immediately in love with this prospect. I've never seen it articulated before. but it's making me happy to consider it.  It gives me permission to ignore the well meaning people around me that care about materialistic stuff. I've been feeling pressured by folks saying i need new clothes, need a new apartment, dissing my job.  I will pray that this will become my mantra.

 APRIL 14—AA Thought for the Day A police captain once told about certain cases he had come across in his police work. The cause of the tragedy in each case was drunkenness. He told his audience about a man who got into an argument with his wife while he was drunk and beat her to death. Then he went out and drank some more. The police captain also told about a woman who got too near the edge of an old quarry hole when she was drunk and fell one hundred and fifty feet to her death. When I read or hear these stories, do I think about our motto: “But for the grace of God”? Meditation for the Day I must keep balance by keeping spiritual things at the center of my life. God will give me this poise and balance if I pray for it. This poise will give me power in dealing with the lives of others. This balance will manifest itself more and more in my own life. I should keep material things in their proper place and keep spiritual things at the center of my life. Then I will be at peace amid the distractions of everyday living. Prayer for the Day I pray that I may dwell with God at the center of my life. pray that I may keep that inner peace at the center of my being.