🤔✌️Courage To Change

“. . . time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions.
Refrain, therefore, awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the
highest matters.”
Plato

 A particular incident reminds me of the sense of surrender that I
feel when I truly take the Third Step and turn my will and my life over
to God’s care. Some years ago my sister discovered that she had a
brain tumor. Her initial diagnosis was dire—also, fortunately,
inaccurate. When I heard about my sister’s choices for treatment, I
felt that she should pursue certain avenues that she had ruled out. I
grew increasingly impatient with her choices until I read a
commentary by a person I respect, suggesting that the avenues I
had been championing could do more harm than good.
That’s when I realized the limits of my own understanding. I saw
that my sense of urgency stemmed not from certainty but from fear. I
discovered
that my only honest course of action was to turn my fear
and my love over to the care of my Higher Power. I could no longer
pretend to know what was best.
 
Today’s Reminder
I am not a rocket scientist, a philosopher, or a wizard. Even if I were
all three, I would still find myself looking off the edge of my
understanding into a vast unknown. As I recognize my own
limitations, I am more grateful than ever for a Higher Power who is
free from such restrictions