July 27

Today's Thought

WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 2005

You are reading from the book Touchstones with modifications.

You cannot get it by taking thought;
You cannot seek it by not taking thought. --Zenrin poem

We are transported into unfamiliar worlds in this program by ideas that sometimes confound our mind. In the spiritual realms we learn things we didn't learn anywhere else, and gradually they bring us peace. We can decide with our will to follow a spiritual direction, to turn our life and will over to the care of our Higher Power. We cannot control what our Higher Power will do with them. When we learn that part of our problem was trying too hard, being too self sufficient, or being too controlling, our old ways tell us to try hard to control that. But then we are only doing more of the same old thing. We learn that after making our decision, our Higher Power takes over. Now it is possible to be released from our own trying, to move beyond our own efforts by falling into the caring hand of our Higher Power.

I must give this program first priority in my life, remembering my spiritual progress comes as a gift, not as an achievement.