Try to lose weight. Try to get in shape. Try to quit smoking. Trying
to get organized. Trying to be on time. Trying isn’t it. We have all
done it. We look in the mirror and decide that’s it, we are going to
make some changes. Things go well for a time, then we begin to
backslide. We rationalize it with being too tired, we had a hard day
or it’s Friday and we deserve a break, etc. Kinda like the alcoholic
rewarding themselves with a drink because they had been sober for a week
or two. That kind of thinking is crazy in light of what happens next
for the alcoholic, yet to some lesser degree we have all done it. Most
of
us have or have had a piece of exercise equipment that
was "the answer" that is either now gathering dust or has moved on via a
garage sale or charitable donation. Yet when an ad announces some new
wonder exercise device promising impossible results from just 20 minutes 3 times a
week we still perk up.
To be clear: every diet works, working out and exercise will provide positive changes and giving up smoking or addictive behaviors are no brainers, so why do we fail? In my youth I was a smoker. I “quit” many times and started back up just as many. Why, because I was trying to quit. It was not until I stopped trying that I finally put them down some years ago, but I am not an ex-smoker; I am a smoker who just doesn’t smoke today. The concept of doing anything “for the rest of our life” is daunting, but we can do anything for twenty-four hours and when we rely on Divine Life for direction and strength we cannot fail, but we must ask.
When we try we are working from without to change the within, when we let go and let God the change comes from within. So if we desire to lose weight, get into shape, stop smoking or change any area of our life, we must stop trying and let go. So, just for today ask in prayer to be shown the right path and to receive the strength and willingness to follow it. We can slack off or smoke tomorrow, but just for today we are going to Let Go And Let God. For in Truth: The only time we can be present for God, the only time He can be present in our lives, is in this moment, our lives a series of moments connected in purpose. By staying in the moment, keeping our head where our hands are, ours eyes on God we cannot fail, today.
To be clear: every diet works, working out and exercise will provide positive changes and giving up smoking or addictive behaviors are no brainers, so why do we fail? In my youth I was a smoker. I “quit” many times and started back up just as many. Why, because I was trying to quit. It was not until I stopped trying that I finally put them down some years ago, but I am not an ex-smoker; I am a smoker who just doesn’t smoke today. The concept of doing anything “for the rest of our life” is daunting, but we can do anything for twenty-four hours and when we rely on Divine Life for direction and strength we cannot fail, but we must ask.
When we try we are working from without to change the within, when we let go and let God the change comes from within. So if we desire to lose weight, get into shape, stop smoking or change any area of our life, we must stop trying and let go. So, just for today ask in prayer to be shown the right path and to receive the strength and willingness to follow it. We can slack off or smoke tomorrow, but just for today we are going to Let Go And Let God. For in Truth: The only time we can be present for God, the only time He can be present in our lives, is in this moment, our lives a series of moments connected in purpose. By staying in the moment, keeping our head where our hands are, ours eyes on God we cannot fail, today.
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Wayne Dyer, Recovery, Addiction, Zen, Emmet Fox, Opioids, Four Agreements,
Chopra, Heroin, Einstein, AA, Healing Path, Law Of Attraction
