Recovery Meditations ~ Aging ~ One Day at a Time ~ September 18, 2010

~ AGING ~
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We turn, not older with years, but newer every day.

Emily Dickinson

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I used to think that being young was

good and being old was undignified. But

then, I found program, and program

helped me find the natural wisdom that

comes from living over time without my

drug.

Now, middle-aged, I feel a power, wisdom

and dignity I've never felt

before. Youth was good. This is good,

too. For me, in fact, it's better. I

know myself at last. I have so many more

resources inside me. I am grateful to be

in my middle years.

As I get older, I seem to be getting

more innocent. I have less of a need to

fit in or please others or do things

because everyone else is doing them.

Somehow or another, this has cleared my

vision, and it is easier for me to see

things the way they really are, and to

appreciate things for themselves.

In the end, it is easier, every day, to

see myself for who I really am and to

accept and to love myself.


ONE DAY AT A TIME . . .

I am willing to be innocent and new, to


follow wherever my Higher Power leads me


next.