Twenty Four Hours a Day - April

[janbear]

Twenty-Four Hours A Day

A.A. Thought For The Day

Since I've been in A.A., have I made a start toward
becoming more loving to my family and friends? Do I visit
my parents? Am I more appreciative of my spouse than I was
before? Am I grateful to my family for having put up with
me? Have I found real understanding with my children? Do I
feel that the friends I've found in A.A. are real friends?
Do I believe that they are always ready to help me and
do I want to help them if I can? Do I really care now about
other people?

Meditation For The Day

Not what you do so much as what you are, that is the miracle-
working power. You can be a force for good, with the help of
God. God is here to help you and to bless you, here to company
with you. You can be a worker with God. Changed by God's grace,
you shed one garment of the spirit for a better one. In time,
you throw that one aside for a yet finer one. And so from
character to character, you are gradually transformed.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that I may accept every challenge. I pray that each
acceptance of a challenge may make me grow into a better
person.

[janbear]

Twenty-Four Hours A Day by Hazelden/ April 2nd

A.A. Thought for the Day

Since I've been in A.A., have I made a start toward
becoming more loving to my family and friends? Do
I visit my parents? Am I more appreciative of my
spouse than I was before? Am I grateful to my family
for having put up with me? Have I found real
understanding with my children? Do I feel that the
friends I've found in A.A. are real friends? Do I
believe that they are always ready to help me and do
I want to help them if I can? Do I really care now
about other people?

Meditation for the Day

Not what you do so much as what you are, that is the
miracle-working power. You can be a force for good,
with the help of God. God is here to help you and to
bless you, here to company with you. You can be a
worker with God. Changed by God's grace, you shed
one garment of the spirit for a better one. In time,
you throw that one aside for a yet finer one. And so
from character to character, you are gradually
transformed.

Prayer for the Day

I pray that I may accept every challenge. I pray that
each acceptance of a challenge may make me grow into
a better person.

[janbear]

Twenty-Four Hours A Day/April 3

A.A. Thought For The Day

When I was drinking, I was absolutely selfish, I thought
of myself first, last, and always. The universe revolved
around me at the center. When I woke up in the morning
with a hangover, my only thought was how terrible I felt
and about what I could do to make myself feel better. And
the only thing I could think of was more liquor. To quit
was impossible. I couldn't see beyond myself and my own
need for another drink. Can I now look out and beyond my
own selfishness?

Meditation For The Day

Remember that the first quality of greatness is service.
In a way, God is the greatest servant of all, because He
is always waiting for us to call on Him to help us in all
good endeavors. His strength is always available to us,
but we must ask it of Him through our own free will. It
is a free gift, but we must sincerely seek for it. A
life of service is the finest life we can live. We are
here on earth to serve others. That is the beginning and
the end of our real worth.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that I may cooperate with God in all good things.
I pray that I may serve God and others and so lead a
useful and happy life.

[janbear]

Twenty-Four Hours A Day

A.A. Thought For The Day

When I came into A.A., I found men and women who had been through
the same things I had been through. But now they were thinking more
about how they could help others than they were about themselves.
They were a lot more unselfish than I ever was. By coming to meetings
and associating with them, I began to think a little less about myself
and a little more about other people. I also learned that I didn't have
to depend on myself alone to get out of the mess I was in. I could get a
greater strength than my own. Am I now depending less on myself and
more on God?

Meditation For The Day

You cannot help others unless you understand the person you are
trying to help. To understand the problems and temptations of others,
you must have been through them yourself. You must do all you can to
understand others. You must study their backgrounds, their likes and
dislikes, their reactions and their prejudices. When you see their
weaknesses, do not confront the person with them. Share your own
weaknesses, sins, and temptations and let other people find their own
convictions.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that I may serve as a channel for God's power to come into the
lives of others. I pray that I may try to understand them.

[janbear]

Twenty-Four Hours A Day by Hazelden / April 5th

A.A. Thought for the Day

People often ask what makes the A.A. program work.
One of the answers is that A.A. works because it
gets people away from themselves as the center of
the universe. And it teaches them to rely more on
the fellowship of others and on strength from God.
Forgetting ourselves in fellowship, prayer, and
working with others is what makes the A.A. program
work. Are these things keeping me sober?

Meditation for the Day

God is the great interpreter of one human personality
to another. Even personalities who are the nearest
together have much in their natures that remains a
seated book to each other. And only as God enters
and controls their lives are the mysteries of each
revealed to the other. Each personality is so different.
God alone understands perfectly the language of each
and can interpret between the two. Here we find the
miracles of change and the true interpretation of life.

Prayer for the Day

I pray that I may be in the right relationship to God.
I pray that God will interpret to me the personalities
of other people, so that I can understand them and
help them.

[janbear]

Twenty-Four Hours A Day/April 6

A.A. Thought For The Day

All alcoholics have personality problems. They drink to
escape from life, to counteract feelings of loneliness or
inferiority, or because of some emotional conflict within
them, so that they cannot adjust themselves to life.
Alcoholics cannot stop drinking unless they find a way to
solve their personality problems. That's why going on the
wagon doesn't solve anything. That's why taking the pledge
usually doesn't work. Was my personality problem ever
solved by going on the wagon or taking the pledge?

Meditation For The Day

God irradiates your life with the warmth of His spirit.
You must open up like a flower to this divine irradiation.
Loosen your hold on earth, its cares, and its worries.
Unclasp your hold on material things, relax your grip, and
the tide of peace and serenity will flow in. Relinquish
every material thing and receive it back again from God.
Do not hold on to earth's treasures so firmly that your
hands are too occupied to clasp God's hands as He holds
them out to you in love.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that I may be open to receive God's blessing.
I pray that I may be willing to relinquish my hold on
material things and receive them back from God.

[janbear]

Twenty-Four Hours A Day / April 8th

A.A. Thought for the Day

Second, alcoholics recover their faith in a Power greater
than themselves. They admit that they're helpless by
themselves and they call on that Higher Power for help.
They surrender their lives to God, as they understand Him.
They put their drink problem in God's hands and leave it
there. They recover their faith in a Higher Power that can
help them. Have I recovered my faith?

Meditation for the Day

You must make a stand for God. Believers in God are
considered by some as peculiar people. You must even be
willing to be deemed a fool for the sake of your faith. You
must be ready to stand aside and let the fashions and
customs of the world go by, when God's purposes are
thereby forwarded. Be known by the marks that distinguish
a believer in God. These are honesty, purity, unselfishness,
love, gratitude, and humility.

Prayer for the Day

I pray that I may be ready to profess my belief in God
before others. I pray that I may not be turned aside by
the skepticism and cynicism of unbelievers.

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[janbear]

Twenty-Four Hours A Day / April 9th
A.A. Thought for the Day

Third, alcoholics recover their proper relationship
with other people. They think less about themselves
and more about others. They try to help other alcoholics.
They make new friends so that they're no longer lonely.
They try to live a life of service instead of selfishness.
All their relationships with other people are improved.
They solve their personality problems by recovering
their personal integrity, their faith in a Higher Power,
and their way of fellowship and service to others. is my
drink problem solved as long as my personality problem
is solved?

Meditation for the Day

All that depresses you, all that you fear, is really
powerless to harm you. These things are but phantoms.
So arise from earth's bonds, from depression, distrust,
fear, and all that hinders your new life. Arise to beauty,
joy, peace, and work inspired by love. Rise from death
to life. You do not even need to fear death. All past sins
are forgiven if you live and love and work with God. Let
nothing hinder your new life. Seek to know more and more
of that new way of living.

Prayer for the Day

I pray that I may let God live in me as I work for Him.
I pray that I may go out into the sunlight and work with God.

[janbear]

Twenty-Four Hours A Day / April 10th

A.A. Thought for the Day

When I came into A.A., I came into a new world.
A sober world. A world of sobriety, peace, serenity,
and happiness. But I know that if I take just one drink,
I'll go right back into that old world. That alcoholic world.
That world of drunkenness, conflict, and misery. That
alcoholic world is not a pleasant place for an alcoholic
to live in. Looking at the world through the bottom of
a whiskey glass is no fun after you've become an
alcoholic. Do I want to go back to that alcoholic world?

Meditation for the Day

Pride stands sentinel at the door of the heart and shuts
out the love of God. God can only dwell with the humble
and the obedient. Obedience to God's will is the key
unlocking the door to God's kingdom. You cannot obey
God to the best of your ability without in time realizing
God's love and responding to that love. The rough stone
steps of obedience lead up to where the mosaic floor of
love and joy is laid. Where God's spirit is, there is your
home. There is heaven for you.

Prayer for the Day

I pray that God may make His home in my humble and
obedient heart. I pray that I may obey His guidance to
the best of my ability.

[janbear]

Twenty-Four Hours A Day

A.A. Thought For The Day

In that alcoholic world, one drink always leads to another and you
can't stop till you're paralyzed. And the next morning it begins all over
again. You eventually land in a hospital or jail. You lose your job. Your
home is broken up. You're always in a mess. You're on the
merry-go-round and you can't get off. You're in a squirrel cage and
you can't get out. Am I convinced that the alcoholic world is not a
pleasant place for me to live in?

Meditation For The Day

I must learn to accept self-discipline. I must try never to yield one
point that I have already won. I must not let myself go in resentments,
hates, fears, pride, lust, or gossip. Even if the discipline keeps me
separated from some people who are without discipline, nevertheless I
will carry on. I may have different ways and a different standard of
living than some others. I may be actuated by different motives than some
people. But I will try to live the way I believe God wants me to live, no
matter what others say.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that I may be an example to others of a better way of living. I
pray that I may carry on in spite of hindrances.

[janbear]

Twenty-Four Hours A Day

A.A. Thought For The Day

This sober world is a pleasant place for an alcoholic to
live in. Once you've gotten out of your alcoholic fog, you
find that the world looks good. You find real friends in
A.A. You get a job. You feel good in the morning. You eat
a good breakfast and you do a good day's work at home or
outside. And your family loves you and welcomes you because
you're sober. Am I convinced that this sober world is a
pleasant place for an alcoholic to live in?

Meditation For The Day

Our need is God's opportunity. First we must recognize our
need. Often this means helplessness before some weakness or
sickness and an admission of our need for help. Next comes
faith in the power of God's spirit, available to us to meet
that need. Before any need can be met, our faith must find
expression. That expression of faith is all God needs to
manifest His power in our lives. Faith is the key that
unlocks the storehouse of God's resources.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that I may first admit my needs. I pray that then
I may have faith that God will meet those needs, in the
way which is best for me.

[janbear]

Twenty-Four Hours A Day

A.A. Thought For The Day

Having found my way into this new world by the grace of God
and the help of A.A., am I going to take that first drink,
when I know that just one drink will change my whole world?
Am I deliberately going back to the suffering of that
alcoholic world? Or am I going to hang onto the happiness
of this sober world? Is there any doubt about the answer?
With God's help, am I going to hang onto AA. with both hands?

Meditation For The Day

I will try to make the world better and happier by my
presence in it. I will try to help other people find the
way God wants them to live. I will try to be on the side
of good, in the stream of righteousness, where all things
work for good. I will do my duty persistently and faithfully,
not sparing myself. I will be gentle with all people. I will
try to see other people's difficulty and help them to correct
it. I will always pray to God to act as interpreter between
me and the other person.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that I may live in the spirit of prayer. I pray that
I may depend on God for the strength I need to help me to do
my part in making the world a better place.

[janbear]

Twenty-Four Hours A Day / April 14th

A.A. Thought for the Day

A police captain once told about certain cases he had come
across in his police work. The cause of the tragedy in each
case was drunkenness. He told his audience about a man who
got into an argument with his wife while he was drunk and
beat her to death. Then he went out and drank some more.
The police captain also told about a woman who got too near
the edge of an old quarry hole when she was drunk and fell
one hundred and fifty feet to her death. When I read or
hear these stories, do I think about our motto: "But for the
grace of God"?

Meditation for the Day

I must keep balance by keeping spiritual things at the center
of my life. God will give me this poise and balance if I pray for
it. This poise will give me power in dealing with the lives of
others. This balance will manifest itself more and more in my
own life. I should keep material things in their proper place
and keep spiritual things at the center of my life. Then I will
be at peace amid the distractions of everyday living.

Prayer for the Day

I pray that I may dwell with God at the center of my life.
I pray that I may keep that inner peace at the center of
my being.

[janbear]

Twenty-Four Hours A Day

A.A. Thought For The Day

Terrible things could have happened to any one of us. We
never will know what might have happened to us when we
were drunk. We usually thought: "That couldn't happen to
me." But any one of us could have killed somebody or have
been killed ourselves, if we were drunk enough. But fear
of these things never kept us from drinking. Do I believe
that in A.A. we have something more effective than fear?

Meditation For The Day

I must keep calm and unmoved in the vicissitudes of life.
I must go back into the silence of communion with God to
recover this calm when it is lost even for one moment. I
will accomplish more by this calmness than by all the
activities of a long day. At all cost I will keep calm.
I can solve nothing when I am agitated. I should keep
away from things that are upsetting emotionally. I should
run on an even keel and not get tipped over by emotional
upsets. I should seek for things that are calm and good
and true and stick to those things.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that I may not argue nor contend, but merely state
calmly what I believe to be true. I pray that I may keep
myself in that state of calmness that comes from faith in
God's purpose for the world.

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[janbear]

Twenty-Four Hours A Day/ April 16th

A.A. Thought for the Day

In A.A. we have insurance. Our faith in God is a kind of
insurance against the terrible things that might happen
to us if we ever drink again. By putting our drink problem
in the hands of God, we've taken out a sort of insurance
policy, which insures us against the ravages of drink, as
our homes are insured against destruction by fire. Am I
paying my A.A. insurance premiums regularly?

Meditation for the Day

I must try to love all humanity. Love comes from thinking
of every man or woman as your brother or sister, because
they are children of God. This way of thinking makes me
care enough about them to really want to help them. I must
put this kind of love into action by serving others. Love means
no severe judging, no resentments, no malicious gossip, and
no destructive criticism. It means patience, understanding,
compassion, and helpfulness.

Prayer for the Day

I pray that I may realize that God loves me, since He is the
Father of us all. I pray that I in turn may have love for all
of His children.

[janbear]

Twenty-Four Hours A Day / April 17th

A.A. Thought for the Day

Every time we go to an A.A. meeting, every time we say
the Lord's Prayer, every time we have a quiet time before
breakfast, we're paying a premium on our insurance against
taking that first drink. And every time we help another
alcoholic, we're making a large payment on our drink
insurance. We're making sure that our policy doesn't
lapse. Am I building up an endowment in serenity, peace,
and happiness that will put me on easy street for the rest
of my life?

Meditation for the Day

I gain faith by my own experience of God's power in my
life. The constant, persistent recognition of God's spirit
in all my personal relationships, the ever accumulating
weight of evidence in support of God's guidance, the
numberless instances in which seeming chance or wonderful
coincidence can be traced to God's purpose in my life. All
these things gradually engender a feeling of wonder, humility,
and gratitude to God. These in turn are followed by a more
sure and abiding faith in God and His purposes.

Prayer for the Day

I pray that my faith may be strengthened every day. I pray
that I may find confirmation of my life in the good things that
have come into my life.

[janbear]

Twenty-Four Hours A Day

A.A. Thought For The Day

Since I've been putting sobriety into my life, I've been
taking out a lot of good things. I can describe it best as
a kind of quiet satisfaction. I feel good. I feel right with
the world, on the right side of the fence. As long as I put
sobriety into my life, almost everything I take out is good.
The satisfaction you get out of living a sober life is made
up of a lot of little things. You have the ambition to do
things you didn't feel like doing when you were drinking.
Am I getting satisfaction out of living a sober life?

Meditation For The Day

It is a glorious way - the upward way. There are wonderful
discoveries in the realm of the spirit. There are tender
intimacies in the quiet times of communion with God. There
is an amazing, almost incomprehensible understanding of the
other person. On the upward way, you can have all the
strength you need from that Higher Power. You cannot make
too many demands on Him for strength. He gives you all the
power you need, as long as you are moving along the upward
way.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that I may see the beautiful horizons ahead on the
upward way. I pray that I may keep going forward to the more
abundant life.

[janbear]

Twenty-Four Hours A Day

A.A. Thought For The Day

The satisfaction you get out of living a sober life is,
made up of a lot of little things, but they add up to a
satisfactory and happy life. You take out of life what you
put into it. So I'd say to people coming into A.A.: "Don't
worry about what life will be like without liquor. just
hang in there and a lot of good things will happen to you.
And you'll have that feeling of quiet satisfaction and peace
and serenity and gratitude for the grace of God." Is my life
becoming really worth living?

Meditation For The Day

There are two paths, one up and one down. We have been given
free will to choose either path. We are captains of our souls
to this extent only. We can choose the good or the bad. Once
we have chosen the wrong path, we go down and down, eventually
to death. But if we choose the right path, we go up and UP,
until we come to the resurrection day. On the wrong path, we
have no power for good because we do not choose to ask for it.
But on the right path, we are on the side of good and we have
all the power of God's spirit behind us.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that I may be in the stream of goodness. I pray that
I may be on the right side, on the side of all good in the
universe.

[janbear]

Twenty-Four Hours A Day

A.A. Thought For The Day

After we've been in A.A. for a while, we find out that if
we're going to stay sober, we have to be humble people. The
men and women in A.A. who have achieved sobriety are all
humble people. When I stop to think that but for the grace
of God I might be drunk right now, I can't help feeling
humble. Gratitude to God for His grace makes me humble. When
I think of the kind of person I was not so long ago, when I
think of the person I left behind me, I have nothing to be
proud of. Am I grateful and humble?

Meditation For The Day

I must arise from the death of sin and selfishness and put
on a new life of integrity. All the old sins and temptations
must be laid in the grave and a new existence rise from the
ashes. Yesterday is gone. All my sins are forgiven if I am
honestly trying to do God's will today. Today is here, the
time of resurrection and renewal. I must start now, today,
to build a new life of complete faith and trust in God and
a determination to do His will in all things.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that I may share in making the world a better place
to live in. I pray that I may do what I can to bring
goodness a little nearer to the earth.

[janbear]

Twenty-Four Hours A Day by Hazelden/ April 22nd

A.A. Thought for the Day

People believe in A.A. when they see it work. An actual
demonstration is what convinces them. What they read
in books, what they hear people say doesn't always
convince them. But when they see a real honest-to-goodness
change take place in a person, a change from a drunkard
to a sober, useful citizen, that's something they can
believe because they can see it. There's really only one
thing that proves to me that A.A. works. Have I seen the
change in people who come into A.A.?

Meditation for the Day

Divine control and unquestioning obedience to God are the
only conditions necessary for a spiritual life. Divine
control means absolute faith and trust in God, a belief
that God is the Divine Principle in the universe and that
He is the intelligence and the Love that controls the universe.
Unquestioning obedience to God means living each day the
way you believe God wants you to live, constantly seeking
the guidance of God in every situation and being willing to
do the right thing at all times.

Prayer for the Day

I pray that I may always be under Divine Control and
always practice unquestioning obedience to God. I pray
that I may be always ready to serve Him.

[janbear]

Twenty-Four Hours A Day/ April 23rd

A.A. Thought for the Day

Men and women keep coming into A.A., licked by alcohol,
often given up by doctors as hopeless cases, they
themselves admitting they're helpless to stop drinking.
When I see these men and women get sober and stay
sober over a period of months and years, I know that
A.A. works. The change I see in people who come into
A.A. not only convinces me that A.A. works, but it also
convinces me that there must be a Power greater than
ourselves which helps us to make that change. Am I
convinced that a Higher Power can help me to change?

Meditation for the Day

Cooperation with God is the great necessity for our lives.
All else follows naturally. Cooperation with God is the
result of our consciousness of His presence. Guidance is
bound to come to us as we live more and more with God,
as our consciousness becomes more and more attuned to
the great Consciousness of the universe. We must have
many quiet times when we not so much ask to be shown
and led by God, as to feel and realize His presence. New
spiritual growth comes naturally from cooperation with God.

Prayer for the Day

I pray that God may supply me with strength and show me
the direction in which He wants me to grow. I pray that
these things may come naturally from my cooperation with Him.

[janbear]

Twenty-Four Hours A Day

A.A. Thought For The Day

It's been proved that we alcoholics can't get sober by our
willpower. We've failed again and again. Therefore I believe
there must be a Higher Power which helps me. I think of that
power as the grace of God. And I pray to God every morning
for the strength to stay sober today. I know that power is
there because it never fails to help me. Do I believe that
AA. works through the grace of God?

Meditation For The Day

Once I am "born of the spirit," that is my life's breath.
Within me is the life of life, so that I can never perish.
The life that down the ages has kept God's children through
peril, adversity, and sorrow. I must try never to doubt or
worry, but follow where the life of the spirit leads. How
often, when little I know it, God goes before me to prepare
the way, to soften a heart, or to overrule a resentment. As
the life of the spirit grows, natural wants become less
important.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that my life may become centered in God more than in
self. I pray that my will may be directed toward doing His will.

[janbear]

Twenty-Four Hours A Day / April 25th

A.A. Thought for the Day

I don't believe that A.A. works because I read it in a book or
because I hear people say so. I believe it because I see people
getting sober and staying sober. An actual demonstration is
what convinces me. When I see the change in people, I can't
help believing that A.A. works. We could listen to talk about
A.A. an day and still not believe it, but when we see it work,
we have to believe it. Seeing is believing. Do I see AA. work
every day?

Meditation for the Day

Try saying "God bless her (or him)" of anyone who is in
disharmony with you. Also say it of those who are in trouble
through their own fault. Say it, willing that showers of
blessings may fall upon them. Let God do the blessing.
Leave to God the necessary correcting or disciplining.
You should only desire blessing for them. Leave God's
work to God. Occupy yourself with the task that He gives
you to do. God's blessing will also break down all your own
difficulties and build up all your successes.

Prayer for the Day

I pray that I may use God's goodness so that it will be a
blessing to others. I pray that I may accept God's blessing
so that I will have harmony, beauty, joy, and happiness.

[janbear]

Twenty-Four Hours A Day

A.A. Thought For The Day

By submitting to God, we're released from the power of liquor.
It has no more hold on us. We're also released from the things
that were holding us down: pride, selfishness, and fear. And
we're free to grow into a new life, which is so much better
than the old life that there's no comparison. This release
gives us serenity and peace with the world. Have I been
released from the power of alcohol?

Meditation For The Day

We know God by spiritual vision. We feel that He is beside us.
We feel His presence. Contact with God is not made by the
senses. Spirit-consciousness replaces sight. Since we cannot
see God, we have to perceive Him by spiritual perception. God
has to span the physical and the spiritual with the gift to us
of spiritual vision. Many persons, though they cannot see God,
have had a clear spiritual consciousness of Him. We are inside
a box of space and time, but we know there must be something
outside of that box, limitless space, eternity of time, and
God.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that I may have a consciousness of God's presence. I
pray that God will give me spiritual vision.

[janbear]

Twenty-Four Hours A Day by Hazelden/ April 27th

A.A. Thought for the Day

We're so glad to be free from liquor that we do something
about it. We get into action. We come to meetings regularly.
We go out and try to help other alcoholics. We pass on the
good news whenever we get a chance. In a spirit of
thankfulness to God, we get into action. The A.A. program
is simple. Submit yourself to God, find release from liquor,
and get into action. Do these things and keep doing them and
you're all set for the rest of your life. Have I got into action?

Meditation for the Day

God's eternal quest must be the tracking down of souls. You
should join Him in His quest. Through briars, through waste
places, through glades, up mountain heights, down into valleys.
God leads you. But ever with His leadership goes your helping
hand. Glorious to follow where the Leader goes. You are
seeking lost sheep. You are bringing the good news into places
where it has not been known before. You may not know which
soul you will help, but you can leave all results to God. just go
with Him in His eternal quest for souls.

Prayer for the Day

I pray that I may follow God in His eternal quest for souls.
I pray that I may offer God my helping hand.

[janbear]

Twenty-Four Hours A Day / April 30th

A.A. Thought for the Day

The A.A. program is one of faith because we find that
we must have faith in a Power greater than ourselves if
we are going to get sober. We're helpless before alcohol,
but when we turn our drink problem over to God and have
faith that He can give us all the strength we need, then
we have the drink problem licked. Faith in that Divine
Principle in the universe which we call God is the essential
part of the A.A. program. Is faith still strong in me?

Meditation for the Day

Each one of us is a child of God, and as such, we are full
of the promise of spiritual growth. A young person is like
the springtime of the year. The full time of the fruit is
not yet, but there is promise of the blossom. There is a
spark of the Divine in every one of us. Each has some of
God's spirit that can be developed by spiritual exercise.
Know that your life is full of glad promise. Such blessings
can be yours, such joys, such wonders, as long as you develop
in the sunshine of God's love.

Prayer for the Day

I pray that I may develop the divine spark within me. I pray
that by so doing I may fulfill the promise of a more abundant life.