I was with a group of people last night who were talking about prayers, mantras, or sayings they use throughout their day and someone said they use the Serenity prayer but replace the word "things" with the word "thoughts"... I thought that gave the prayer an interesting perspective...
God, grant me the serenity
to accept the things (thoughts) I cannot change
The courage to change the things (thoughts) I can.
And the wisdom to know the difference.
What do you say or do to help you in trouble spots or to give you inspiration?
4 comments:
Cool! I do thousands of things to help me when I'm in a rut (as you know). Sometimes I just let myself be in a little rut for a while and it passes. Feelings are one thing that I honor - thoughts, however are another story. I am vigilant about keeping them pure and positive.
L, K
pray hard, meditate, excerisize, journal....and the list goes on and on!
I call someone. I pray out loud - just now in the car I was yelling to God for help. I was leaving a GREAT meeting, I felt good, and then my thoughts went to work and I had an argument with someone over a resentment and the argument didn't happen, the conflict we argued over didn't even happen. I was crazy in my thoughts again. So I stopped the argument and yelled out loud to God to please help me. I asked him/her to please please redirect my thoughts. Please let me follow YOur Will. And if I don't pause like that, pause when agitated, I get all hot and angered about things that didn't happen. And you can guess how that effects my relationships with those people if I don't ask for help.
Sometimes I just need time to myself. I need to shower off the bad thoughts and feelings. Really, I actually shower. Sometimes I yell, or swear, or do anything. What I DO NOT want to do is ognore this stuff. I don't need to act on my thoughts, or give any truth to them, I don't need to believe them, but I can't ignore them anymore. I have them. For me I need to process them and ask God to help me with them. Because if I don't talk about them out loud, if I don't express how my craziness is making me feel, the feeling festers and manifests itself in a negative way. Then I am not the only one who suffers. I take it out on others. So Good God in Heaven - help me with my crazy head! Take away the nonsense and help me be of service to others!
-S
I call someone. I pray out loud - just now in the car I was yelling to God for help. I was leaving a GREAT meeting, I felt good, and then my thoughts went to work and I had an argument with someone over a resentment and the argument didn't happen, the conflict we argued over didn't even happen. I was crazy in my thoughts again. So I stopped the argument and yelled out loud to God to please help me. I asked him/her to please please redirect my thoughts. Please let me follow YOur Will. And if I don't pause like that, pause when agitated, I get all hot and angered about things that didn't happen. And you can guess how that effects my relationships with those people if I don't ask for help.
Sometimes I just need time to myself. I need to shower off the bad thoughts and feelings. Really, I actually shower. Sometimes I yell, or swear, or do anything. What I DO NOT want to do is ognore this stuff. I don't need to act on my thoughts, or give any truth to them, I don't need to believe them, but I can't ignore them anymore. I have them. For me I need to process them and ask God to help me with them. Because if I don't talk about them out loud, if I don't express how my craziness is making me feel, the feeling festers and manifests itself in a negative way. Then I am not the only one who suffers. I take it out on others. So Good God in Heaven - help me with my crazy head! Take away the nonsense and help me be of service to others!
-S
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