Jun. 27, 2007 - 14:27 MDT

FULL REALIZATION

For some time I have been wandering down the shaded pathways of my past, in part chronicling my progress from baby hood to maturity. If true maturity is ever reached. I don’t know about that or if I will ever reach that ideal state.

But looking back, I can see how much my thoughts and attitudes toward life and people changed as I tried to grow up. Some of that came about because I began to gain a bit of understanding of how things truly were. Some of that came through blood, sweat and tears. Much as it does for most of us.

And then I thought of a prayer I became acquainted with when I was struggling to come out of my alcoholic haze.

THE SERENITY PRAYER

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference.

I still have to remind myself of the precepts of that prayer. All those past years containing much wasted effort, of alcoholic thinking, “Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results each time.”

So as of today, I am not yet serene, but am on the path to that blessed place.

Finally this stubborn man has come to FULL REALIZATION . . . . . . . . . . . .

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