DAILY RECOVERY READINGS FOR MEN

[MajestyJo]

Sunday, August 18, 2013

You are reading from the book Touchstones

The years forever fashion new dreams when old ones go. God pity the one dream man.
—Robert Goddard

A painful loss can seem like the end of hope for us. It is true that the place a loved one had in our lives will never be filled. The loss of a job may dash a dream that will not come true - at least not as we thought it would. The aging of our body ends physical strength, and we lose options that will not come around a second time. Yet, change is a basic fact of life. We must empty a glass before we can fill it with something else. Our spiritual task is to become less rigid in our attachments and more accepting of the flow of life.

When we look straight at our losses and allow ourselves to cry and grieve over them, we are saying good-bye and letting go. Grief cleanses the soul and frees us to move on to new dreams. The loss of a job may put us in a position to discover undreamed of possibilities. In time, the loss of a love heals, and it deepens our relationship with our Higher Power and with our other friends. The other side of grief is freedom, and we are learning to have many new dreams in our lives.

I pray for the freedom that comes with having dreams in my life.

Dreams give me hope. It isn't about what you see in a dream, but how you are feeling. Like last night I had a very vivid dream. I dreamt that I was picking strawberries my favourite fruit, in a big field and I had something white I was carving up. It could have been a puff ball because a guy had one in my chiropractor's office last week. The strangest part was that the field belonged to Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert and I was talking to them and thanked them for allowing me to be there and a part of their plan. She announced that they had made $23 million dollars out of their project.