Today's Gift - 07/20/2008

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Today's thought from Hazelden is:There are days when I feel impatient with the way my life is going.

Maybe my emotional healing isn't happening fast enough for me, and I feel angry or frustrated. Maybe I'm having financial problems, or my job doesn't satisfy me. Maybe caring for my children is tiring, or I can't find time for myself. Today I will practice being patient. Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to do nothing - to wait for events to unfold in their own time.

I can learn to relax and stop trying to force things to happen. I can't control everything in my life, and today I will stop trying. I don't have to achieve all my goals in one day or even one month.

As hard as it may seem, for today, I will be a patient person.

You are reading from the book:

Time to Break Free by Judith R.

Time to Break Free. Copyright 1999 by Judith R. . All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No portion of this publication may be reproduced in any manner without the written permission of Hazelden.

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