~ PEACE ~
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We cannot find peace if we are afraid of the windstorms of life.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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My life always seemed so filled with
difficulty. I seemed to have more than
my fair share of traumas and losses. Why
was I always being tested like this? It
just didn't seem fair. I was so wrapped
up in myself and the unfairness of my
difficult life that I couldn't see that
each of these harsh experiences had been
opportunities for growth. Instead of
bemoaning my fate and blaming people or
situations for what seemed to me to be
the cause of the current difficulty, I
never looked at what part I had played
in the whole situation, or the lessons I
could learn from each of these
experiences.
It has often been said that God doesn't
give us more than we can cope with. What
I realized later, once I'd come into the
program, was that each of these
experiences had been a unique learning
opportunity for me; they were a chance
to grow and mature. I had been too stuck
in self-pity and blame that I hadn't
seen the wonderful gifts that I was
being given with each new life
experience. When I was able to open
myself up fully to the lessons that I
could learn from life, I became a whole
person. It was then that the promises of
the program begin to be fulfilled in my
life, and I began to know serenity and
peace.
ONE DAY AT A TIME . . .
I will look for what lesson my Higher Power wants me to learn from life. I am then able to grow and change, and by doing so, I will come to know serenity and peace.