It's over, over, over. We are back home after about 18 hours in the car in two days. It was good to see family and friends, and I am most grateful to be home. Try though I might, I can't make myself feel that this was a good Christmas. It was acceptable. I went along with all of it as OK, since I couldn't have what I really wanted, which was to be with my kids and grandson. I have to get past this, I know. Truly Jamaica was the Christmas-time highlight for me. I am so ready to move on to 2024.
In the spirit of trying to get myself headed down a better path, I offer this from AA's Big Book, because I need to read this again and again:
And acceptance is the answer to all my problems today. When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing, or situation -- some fact of my life -- unacceptable to me, and I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment.
Nothing, absolutely nothing, happens in God's world by mistake. Until I could accept my alcoholism, I could not stay sober; unless I accept life completely on life's terms, I cannot be happy. I need to concentrate not so much on what needs to be changed in the world as on what needs to be changed in me and in my attitudes.
For me, serenity began when I learned to distinguish between those things that I could change and those I could not. When I admitted that there were people, places, things, and situations over which I was totally powerless, those things began to lose their power over me. I learned that everyone has the right to make their own mistakes, and learn from them, without my interference, judgment, or assistance!
Aiming to do the next right thing in front of me,
Leta
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| Lilies... another good reminder for me... |
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