If You Can’t Say Something Nice

[MajestyJo]

Remember my mother saying, "If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all." For many years, I felt like I had to justify my reason for being and felt like I had to fill up the silence with words. More often than not, they came off the cuff, from the seat of my pants, or off the top of my head, instead of from the heart.

Trying to pray is praying.
--Anonymous

"Oh, God, help me! If you get me out of this mess, I'll never screw up again." This was our favorite prayer before we entered the Program. We were always bargaining with God.

We have learned new prayers and a new way to talk and listen to our Higher Power. We are seeking God's will for us. Many of us had to learn how to pray. We began with very simple prayers: "Thank you, God, for helping me today."

We learn that prayer helps us with our faulty dependence on people, places, and things by giving us the insight and strength to rearrange our priorities. Prayer doesn't change God, but it changes those who pray.

Today in my prayers, I will seek my Higher Power's will for me. I no longer bargain with God.

You are reading from the book:



Easy Does It by Anonymous

I pray for the willingness to pray for the willingness to pray. I pray for the words and thought I need to get through my day.
I pray that my actions show that my prayers are answered, and my God supplies the good orderly direction I need to live clean and sober daily.



Love this! Have prayed the prayer of the desperate! Most times, it is just a simple "Help!"

I am sure that God doesn't mind what words we use, it is our attitude, motive and intent behind them that counts.

As the last line says, God is never changing, but we can and do when we align our will with His.