”Above all, we reject fantasizing and accept reality.”

I was asked to speak in the U.K. at a meeting online and in it they ask for 1 line or paragraph from the big book. I have many favorites but they needed a line immediately so i dropped the book open and read where my gaze landed. 

It was page 559 and the line "Above all, we reject fantasizing and accept reality."  Just another fantastic summary of what A.A. has taught me. Be here now, where your feet are is where your mind should be. Stop living in the past, or planning out elaborate revenge fantasies for those imagined or actual wrong doings of others. Stop daydreaming and fantasizing about your future and start taking steps to build it. Find what is good in this moment, this marriage, this friendship, this job...right now. Be grateful and live this life to the fullest.

 

We always cry when we are new, "Turn my will and my life over to God? What then will become of me?" Action is your opportunity to practice autonomy in your life, the difference today is I seek counsel from a Higher Power first, then I take action. I no longer re-act to the perceived wrong doings of others, I ask God to direct my thinking so that it be devoid of self-pity, anger, resentment, selfish, self-seeking behaviours and motives.

If you haven't tried it, what are you waiting for? The consequences of our thoughtless actions of the past have probably piled up around you. If you want that to change you have to change yourself. I couldn't do it alone, I needed help.

 

May you find that help now. Here's a secret, just ask.

 

Love and Freedom,

 

 

Lisa M.