Friday, August 31, 2012

Free of Gambling and Able to Help

August 31 - From time to time, I begin to think I know what God's will is for other people.  I say to myself, "this person ought to be cured of his illness," or "that one ought to be freed from the abuse she's going through," and I begin to pray for those specific things.  My heart is in the right place when I pray in such fashion, but those prayers are based on the supposition that I know God's will for the person for whom I pray.  The Gamblers Anonymous Program teaches me, instead, that I ought to pray that God's will - whatever it is - be done for others as well as for myself.

Will I remember that God is ready to befriend me, but only to the degree that I trust him?

Today I Pray - I praise God for the chance to help others.  I thank God also for making me want to help others, for taking me out of my tower of self so that I can meet and share with and care about people.  Teach me to pray that "thy will be done" in the spirit of love, which God inspires in me.

Today I Will Remember - I will put my trust in the will of God.

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