Sept. 12, 2012 - Just for Today

Just for Today
Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012

Just for today, I will not empower anger to poison my actions and words for which, inevitably, I will have to answer to. If I forget I have only today and reach back into yesterday and resurrect some anger or resentment, justified or not, I will Let Go and Let God because I don’t WANT to add to any excess baggage and I DON’T want to give power to an emotion that might derail me if I don’t control IT. If I get angry today, I will walk away from the source until I can think with reason and logic, without emotion. And if I get the chance to talk to a person who has made me angry, I will confine my words to how I reacted instead of, “YOU made me feel …,” “YOU shouldn’t have …” and “YOU had no right …” In that context, I am risking taking another person’s Fourth, and the job as moral gatekeeper was taken from me by a Power wiser and stronger than I can ever be. As a drinking alcoholic, I had no choice but to allow my anger to have the upper hand; today, as a recovering alcoholic, I have the choice of NOT allowing anger to dictate my words and thought. Today, I choose to weaken any potentially lethal emotion by NOT feeding it. And our common journey continues. Just for today. - Chris M., 2012