Daily Picture January 6th

[Brock]

If you have a resentment you want to be free of, if you will pray for the person or the thing that you resent, you will be free. If you will ask in prayer for everything you want for yourself to be given to them, you will be free...Even when you don't really want it for them, and your prayers are only words and you don't mean it, go ahead and do it anyway. Do it every day for two weeks and you will find you have come to mean it and to want it for them, and you will realize that where you used to feel bitterness and resentment and hatred, you now feel compassionate understanding and love. BB p. 552

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[DaveP1951]

"If they caused you pain they must have pain inside." That is so true. Put another way "Hurt people hurt People."

[PaigeB]

Yes. How true is it that the person who is being hurtful must be hurting so much on their insides for them to act this way?

Page 67 of the BB saved my sobriety more than once:

Though we did not like their symptoms and the way these disturbed us, they, like ourselves, were sick too. We asked God to help us show them the same tolerance, pity, and patience that we would cheerfully grant a sick friend. When a person offended we said to ourselves, "This is a sick man. How can I be helpful to him? God save me from being angry. Thy will be done."

We avoid retaliation or argument. We wouldn't treat sick people that way. If we do, we destroy our chance of being helpful. We cannot be helpful to all people, but at least God will show us how to take a kindly and tolerant view of each and every one.

That last paragraph is me - retaliation and argument are my survival specialties! Ahhh, but I am willing to go to any length go stay sober...