Thoughts To Help You On Your Recovery Path

[MajestyJo]

You are reading from the book
Each Day a New Beginning.

Many of us achieve only the semblance of communication with others; what we say is often not contingent on what the other has just said, and neither of us is aware that we are not communicating.
--Desy Safn-Gerard

When we don't listen fully to each other, when we don't revere the Spirit within others that's trying to talk to us, we destroy the connection that wants to be made between our Spirits. Our inner selves have messages to give and messages to receive for the good of all. Our ego selves often keep us from hearing the very words that would unravel a problem in our lives.

How hard it is, how often, to be still and to fully listen to the words, rather than the person. How much more familiar it is to filter the message with our own ongoing inner dialogue--our own ongoing continual assessment of another's personhood at the very time our higher power is trying to reach us through them.

There really are no wasted words. Messages are everywhere. We can learn to listen.

I will hear just what I need to hear today. I will open myself fully to the words.

So many people get caught up and just because they are use to slogans or sayings, I think they turn them out as being old news, not realizing that in today, they can take on all new meaning in the context shared.

I use to get so annoyed when this one fellow shared because he always repeated the same thing. "Take the cotton batten out of your ears and put it in your mouth!" It was this same man who made the statement, "If you have to control it, it is out of control." This was the phrase that gave me a big spiritual awareness, and if I had tuned him out, I would not have stayed sick in my blindness.

We keep thinking we have heard it all, but in reality, how much have we actually 'heard' and more importantly how much did we take to heart and apply to our lives. Words mean nothing if they aren't taken from the pages and transferred to our thoughts in today.

As the reading says, our ego gets in the way and we 'think' we have heard it all before, yet all we do is go through the motions, shut down, shut off, and wonder why we stay sick and don't grow in the Fellowship of the Spirit.

As I like to say, take the words off the pages of your book and your screen, what ever source it might be, and apply them to your life. To know them is one thing, to live them is another.