Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Don't Duck the Consequences

March 6 - There is no advantage, no profit, and certainly no growth when I deceive myself merely to escape the consequences of my own mistakes.  when I realize this, I know I'll be making progress.  "We must be true inside, true to ourselves, before we can know a truth that is outside us," wrote Thomas Merton in No Man Is an Island.  "But we make ourselves true inside by manifesting the truth as we see it."

Am I true to myself?

Today I Pray - May I count on my Higher Power to help me carry out the truth as I see it.  May I never duck a consequence again.  Consequence ducking became a parlor game for addictive gamblers like me, until we lost all sense of relationship between action and outcome.  Now that I am healing, please God, restore my balance.

Today I Will Remember - Match the act with the consequence.

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