Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2018
Today’s thought from the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is:
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
We carry problems and discrepancies within us, quandaries that are not easily answered – and we have bigger questions about life and the world. Why did I act as I did in my younger years? Can my life partnership be happy again? How should I handle a secret that I carry? What is this thing we call Higher Power and God?
We are on a journey and, in some ways, this journey is a quest for answers. The questions give energy and direction to our seeking. We cannot expect to get quick or easy answers. And some questions will always remain just that: questions. But we can learn to be patient with ourselves, tolerant of our incompleteness, and always curious about how it will all turn out.
Today I will practice patience with myself and embrace my unsolved questions as crucial elements in my quest.
You are reading from the book:
Wisdom to Know © 2005 by Hazelden Foundation
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