Yesterday, we asked this:
Imagine you get a few hours off work to do with as you please. What would you do?
Make a list of five things you would do.
Then we'll pick this up tomorrow.
Are your first thoughts:
- Spiritual reading or listening? Prayer? Meditation? Contemplation? Time with God? Overdue stepwork?
- Going to a meeting? Carrying the message?
- Performing acts of service within one's twelve-step fellowship?
- Performing acts of service in the world?
- Being in nature, with animals, with children, with family, with friends?
- Playing music? Painting? Other creativity or something genuinely nourishing?
What was associated with these possibilities? Guilt and obligation, or untrammelled joy?
Or was something else on the cards?
What am I after?
Money? Security? Achievement? Comfort? Power? Prestige? Self-satisfaction?
Or awakening from the nightmare? Appreciation of God's created universe? Annihilation of self? Dissolution into service? Unity with others?