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bluidkiti · 09-11-2020, 05:22 AM

September 11

A person who is looking for something doesn’t travel very fast.

~E. B. White

What do men really want? What are we seeking? Many of us have felt driven and still feel restless or compulsive at times. We frantically followed our impulses to self-destructive extremes. Even those painful actions of our past were motivated, at the bottom line, by a spiritual search. What did we really seek in the bottle, or in the passionate bed, or in our work? Slowing down enough every day to let ourselves know what we are looking for gives us a much better chance of finding it.

Today, we can slow down by taking twenty minutes for solitude and quiet, for meditation or prayer. We can call a friend simply for a moment of contact. We might read something to give ourselves some ideas to ponder, or we can listen to music that will transport us to another world. Perhaps we can simply walk more slowly from our car or the bus stop to our home. Often it is not the events in our lives that bring change but the space between events.

Today, I will try to remember that slowing down may help me find what I am seeking.

Today's reading is from the book Touchstones, A Book of Daily Meditations for Men

09-11-2020, 05:22 AM	#11
bluidkiti Administrator Join Date: Aug 2013 Posts: 71,217	September 11 A person who is looking for something doesn’t travel very fast. ~E. B. White What do men really want? What are we seeking? Many of us have felt driven and still feel restless or compulsive at times. We frantically followed our impulses to self-destructive extremes. Even those painful actions of our past were motivated, at the bottom line, by a spiritual search. What did we really seek in the bottle, or in the passionate bed, or in our work? Slowing down enough every day to let ourselves know what we are looking for gives us a much better chance of finding it. Today, we can slow down by taking twenty minutes for solitude and quiet, for meditation or prayer. We can call a friend simply for a moment of contact. We might read something to give ourselves some ideas to ponder, or we can listen to music that will transport us to another world. Perhaps we can simply walk more slowly from our car or the bus stop to our home. Often it is not the events in our lives that bring change but the space between events. Today, I will try to remember that slowing down may help me find what I am seeking. Today's reading is from the book Touchstones, A Book of Daily Meditations for Men __________________ "No matter what you have done up to this moment, you get 24 brand-new hours to spend every single day." --Brian Tracy AA gives us an opportunity to recreate ourselves, with God's help, one day at a time. --Rufus K. When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. --Franklin D. Roosevelt We stay sober and clean together - one day at a time! God says that each of us is worth loving.