Using Your Inborn Spirituality Living Your Everyday Life

Is your surest way to a happy, fulfilling life

What does the saying “Living Happy, Joyous, and Free” mean to you? If the first things thought of when hearing it are “Yeah, sure,” and “If you had my problems, you would be in the pits, too,” I would strongly suggest looking deeply into how your program is being worked.

This means how are you really living your life? Are you living your life or are you simply getting by? Is this your life? 1. Eat. 2. Sleep. 3. Exist. 4. Return to #1 and repeat 1–4.

“Half measures availed us nothing” means exactly what it says. Think of the Law of Attraction again. Look into the mirror of your life and ask what is being put into your life’s mirror.

If you put all good into your mirror of life, you can EXPECT to have all good in return. This does not mean that every day will be filled with chuckles and laughter but there will be nothing put back into your life that you can not handle.

The AA 3rd Step is: “Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God, as we understood Him.”

If you put half measures into your life, such as only working part of the program at all times, you will get half goodness in return. I suggest looking deeply into the 3rd Step because, if you totally turn your will and life over to your Higher Power, you can KNOW and EXPECT it to improve.

First, though, you must know and believe that it will work. This brings us back to CBA. 1st, Conceive the thought that your life is going to become better. 2nd, Believe that this is true and expect that it will occur.

3rd, Achieve the good life because you have thought it into existence and truly believed it would occur. Why? Because you began by turning it over to your Higher Power.

How do you know that this will be the case here? You have seen it happen in others and actually felt it in varying degrees yourself since starting to work the program.

You do not need decades in the program to see positive results. They will become apparent as soon as you try to work the program to the best of your ability each and every day, not just at meetings.

When you see and feel it happen, you are demonstrating and witnessing the progress. When you can feel the progress, it is much better than if you only know it in your head.

If you are new to the program, study it and learn about it with your heart and gut, not your head. If you have been around the program for a while and want things to improve, I suggest you do the same.

Know it truly with your heart and your head will be sure to follow. “But, Jim, how do I learn with my heart? They never told us this in school.” Go back and truly take Step 3. Then know you will be led in the right direction.

From then on, if it feels good and right, it will be good and right so JUST DO IT. If there is any apprehension, step back and reconsider. When the apprehension disappears, do it, and do it now!

I am truly Happy, Joyous, and Free. I will be even Happier when you all become just as Happy, Joyous, and Free as I am and even more.

Thank you, God!

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