It’s amazing that my friend told me her experience in dealing with alcohol and cigarette which both are things addictive to people and hard to shake away for years. She said she has been alcohol free for 13 days already and she has never been not drinking for that long a period and then she came across something in a book: “Forming new habits will require making a decision to not do what you feel like doing unless it agrees with God’s will. You will have to say NO to yourself quite often, and that is “dying to self”. I guess she is reading the book “Living Beyond Your Feelings”. I find this particularly true about how we treat our feelings, we don’t feel like this and that very often and that is why we feel frustrated and things become very self-oriented. If we can put our eyes forward in understanding if we can overcome ourselves in doing something not prudent, if we can break away from those, we would be really proud of ourselves, just like my friend here. She said she is feeling good coz she knows what is right and that she has done it. I guess it feels like you have passed the finishing line at the marathon. Go Team!
Daily Quote
Do not those who plot evil go astray? But those who plan what is good find love and faithfulness.
Proverbs 14:22I pray to God that I will go beyond my feelings and treat His will as my anchor.
Postscript Quote
Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.
Thich Nhat Hanh, Stepping into Freedom: Rules of Monastic Practice for Novices
