Step by Step
Sunday, April 28, 2024
Today, no running from mistakes with a sense of failure or blaming anything and anyone else. No recovery program works towards perfection because no person will or can achieve it. Likewise, I cannot and must not impose that unreachable goal on myself – and others. AA’s 10th Step says, in part, we “promptly admitted” when we are wrong -- not if. Thus, let me not be so vain as to place responsibility for my mistakes, big and small, on someone and something else. Adversely, let me not be discouraged by a sense of failure when I stumble in word, thought and deed. Instead, let me be open to owning my mistakes, identifying the reason for them and correcting the reason so that I do not repeat them. Today, I am not perfect and I cannot expect myself to be – nor can I expect anyone and anything else to be. And our common journey continues. Step by step. -- Chris M., 2024
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