I got a call from man in Md. this morning. He expressed trouble he’s having with a host of “issues” in his life. (He, also, asked how you were doing.) They were things we all face in the course of our daily lives. But the thing is, like most of us, he was looking everywhere and with everyone for the answer so that he could solve his problems himself. In other words, he was scattered all over the place. Somehow he remembered that I had asked him to read “Freedom from Bondage” and he did.
Of course it talked about the anger this woman had with everyone. She saw her problems, like most of us do, as due to someone else. She never saw her problems as herself. We never see that we are the common denominator in all our circumstances. But now he was getting the idea that maybe he really is the problem.
I talked to another man, who told me that he finall! y read the story “The Man Who Overcame Fear”. He read what this man did and thought he’d apply it to two resentments he had been carrying around with him for years. Bang! He started to get relief from them.
Talked to another friend about the statement in the BB that God does not make to hard a deal with those who seek him.
All these thoughts about the application of spiritual principles to our problems. Instead of will power, God power to my troubles. That’s what we talked about last night at our BB meeting. How, if I turn my will and life over to God’s care, and try to apply what is expressed in the steps, that I begin to experience the solution I so desperately needed for everything which has ever troubled me.
Got to run. Take care, Ned