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bluidkiti · 03-06-2024, 03:13 AM

March 6

God alone can finish.

~John Ruskin

We may have been brought up with the idea that we always had to finish something once begun - a meal, a painting, a task, a project, a letter. In many cases this went along with our notions of perfectionism: if something is going to be done, it must be done perfectly - the way Dad does it or the teacher or God. And so, especially if we liked to experiment a bit or dream, we felt we really didn't measure up.

But many of the greatest artists - Leonardo, Cézanne, Picasso - left work unfinished, as if to show the margin between impossible perfection and their own striving. What mattered was the effort and the process and the struggle. Each viewer of an unfinished picture could, by responding to the work’s creative urging with her his imagination, fulfill the process.

Our lives are never finished - at least until we can no longer add any final touches. We are always in a process of change and becoming. That is why we keep taking the Steps in our program over and over - to remind us that our lives are journeys, always in the act of unfolding.

I feel relaxed when I view my life as an ongoing creative process rather than as a perfect work of art.

Today's reading is from the book Answers in the Heart

03-06-2024, 03:13 AM	#6
bluidkiti Administrator Join Date: Aug 2013 Posts: 71,065	March 6 God alone can finish. ~John Ruskin We may have been brought up with the idea that we always had to finish something once begun - a meal, a painting, a task, a project, a letter. In many cases this went along with our notions of perfectionism: if something is going to be done, it must be done perfectly - the way Dad does it or the teacher or God. And so, especially if we liked to experiment a bit or dream, we felt we really didn't measure up. But many of the greatest artists - Leonardo, Cézanne, Picasso - left work unfinished, as if to show the margin between impossible perfection and their own striving. What mattered was the effort and the process and the struggle. Each viewer of an unfinished picture could, by responding to the work’s creative urging with her his imagination, fulfill the process. Our lives are never finished - at least until we can no longer add any final touches. We are always in a process of change and becoming. That is why we keep taking the Steps in our program over and over - to remind us that our lives are journeys, always in the act of unfolding. I feel relaxed when I view my life as an ongoing creative process rather than as a perfect work of art. Today's reading is from the book Answers in the Heart __________________ "No matter what you have done up to this moment, you get 24 brand-new hours to spend every single day." --Brian Tracy AA gives us an opportunity to recreate ourselves, with God's help, one day at a time. --Rufus K. When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. --Franklin D. Roosevelt We stay sober and clean together - one day at a time! God says that each of us is worth loving.