It feels like a new energy is coming into Absville.
We cannot base our expectations about how we feel tomorrow or even a few hours from
now, on how we feel at this moment.
There are no two moments in time alike. We are recovering. We are changing. Our life is changing. At times, things haven't worked out the way we wanted. We had lessons to learn.
The future shall not be like the past.
The truly difficult times are almost over. The confusion, the most challenging learning experiences, the difficult feelings are about to pass. Do not limit the future by the past!
Reflect on the beginning of your recovery. Haven't there been many changes that brought you to where you are now? Reflect on one year ago. Haven't you and your circumstances changed since then?
Sometimes, problems and feelings linger for a while. These times are temporary.
Times of confusion, uncertainty, times of living with a particular unsolved problem do not last forever.
We make these times doubly hard by comparing them to our past. Each situation and circumstance has had its particular influence in shaping who we are. We do not have to scare ourselves by comparing our present and future to a painful past, especially our past before we began recovering or before we learned through a particular experience.
Know that the discomfort will not be permanent. Don't try to figure out how you should feel or when you shall feel differently. Instead, trust.
Accept today, but do not be limited by it.
A new energy is coming. A new feeling is on the way. We cannot predict how it will be looking at how it was or how it is, because it shall be entirely different. We have not worked and struggled in vain. It has been for and toward something.
Times are changing for the better. Continue on the part of trust and obedience. Be open to the new.
Today God, help me not judge or limit my future by my past. Help me be open to all the exciting possibilities for change, both within and round me. ~ a daily meditation.
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