so we clean house with a family asking each morning in meditation
that our creators show us the way of patience tolerance kind
leanness and love the spiritual life is not a theory we have to live it
God will cost close more to you and to us ask him in your morning meditation what you
can do each day for the man who was still sick the answers will come if your own house is an
order but obviously you cannot transmit something you haven't got see to it that your relationship
with him is right and great events will come to pass for you and countless others this is
the great effect for us abandon yourself to God as you understand God admit Rafal to him and to
your fellows clear away the wreckage of your past give freely of what you find and join us
we shall be with you and the Fellowship of the Spirit and you will surely meet some of
us as you trudge the road of happy destiny may God bless you and keep you until then
if circumstances warrant we ask our wives or friends to join us in morning meditation
if we belong to a religious denomination which requires a definite morning devotion we attend
to that also if not members of religious bodies we sometimes select and memorize a
few set prayers which emphasize the principles we have been discussing there are many helpful books
also suggestions about these may be obtained from one's priest minister or rabbi be quick
to see where religious people are right make use of what they offer as we go through the
day we pause when agitated or doubtful and ask for the right thought or action we constantly
remind ourselves we are no longer running the show humbly saying to ourselves many times each day thy
will be done we are then a much less danger of excitement fear anger worry self-pity or foolish
decisions we become much more efficient we do not tire so easily for we are not burning up
energy foolishly as we did when we were trying to arrange life to suit ourselves it works it really
does we alcoholics are undisciplined so we let God discipline us in the simple way we have just
outlined but this is not all there is action and more action faith without works is dead
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on awakening let us think about the 24 hours ahead we consider our plans for the day before
we begin we ask God to direct our thinking especially asking that it be divorced from
self-pity dishonest or self seeking motives under these conditions we can employ our
mental faculties with assurance for after all God gave us brains to use our thought
life will be placed in a much higher plane when our thinking is cleared of wrong motives
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in thinking about our day we may face indecision we may not be able to determine which course to
take here we ask God for inspiration and intuitive thought or a decision we relax and take it easy
we don't struggle we are often surprised how the right answers come after we have tried this for a
while what used to be the hunch or the occasional inspiration gradually becomes a working part of
the mind being still inexperienced and having just made conscious contact with God it is not
probable that we are going to be inspired at all times we might pay for this presumption and all
sorts of absurd actions and ideas nevertheless we find that our thinking will as time passes be
more and more on the plane of inspiration we come to rely upon it we usually conclude the
period of meditation with a prayer that we be shown all through the day what our next
step is to be that we be given whatever we need to take care of such problems we ask especially
for freedom from self will that are careful to make no request for ourselves only we may ask
for ourselves however if others will be helped we are careful never to pray for our own selfish
ends many of us have wasted a lot of time doing that and it doesn't work you can easily see why
when we retire at night we constructively review our day where we resentful selfish
dishonest or afraid do we owe an apology have we kept something to ourselves which should be
discussed with another person at once were we kind and loving toward all what could we have
done better were we thinking of ourselves most of the time or were we thinking of what we could do
for others of what we could pack into the stream of life but we must be careful not to drift in
to worry remorse or morbid reflection for that would diminish our usefulness to others after
making our review we ask God's forgiveness and inquire what corrective measures should be taken
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