Love for God acknowledges His gifts and leaves the way open for God to shower yet more blessings on your thankful heart. it is the result of gratitude to God and it is the acknowledgment of the blessing that God has sent you. Try to love your family and your friends and then try to love everybody that you possibly can, even the “sinners and publicans” everybody. Love is the power that transforms your life. I’m positive I don’t miss these things, am I not? Some more things I do not miss since becoming dry: running all over town to find a bar open to get that “pick-me-up” meeting my friends and trying to cover up that I feel awful looking at myself in a mirror and calling myself a dam* fool struggling with myself to snap out of it for two or three days wondering what it is all about. I must search out and be ready for the currents, and that’s where prayer and meditation help! Because I am, of myself, nothing, I ask God to grant me the knowledge of His will and the power and courage to carry it out – today. It’s not easy to know God’s will in each circumstance. That insight granted me the willingness to pray the Seventh Step prayer. I realized that if the bird “took back his will” and tried to fly with less trust, on its power alone, it would spoil its apparent free flight. It was an inspiring example of a fellow creature “letting go” to a power greater than itself. Swept along, swooping and soaring, the bird did things seemingly impossible for mortal birds to do. I watched it suddenly give itself up to the powerful air currents of the mountains. I was outside, praying for willingness, when I raised my eyes and saw a huge bird rising in the sky. Now I was stuck on Step Six and, in despair, I picked up the Big Book and read this passage. Steps Four and Five were difficult, but worthwhile. We have emphasized willingness as being indispensable. She began practicing yoga with Rolf Gates in 2000.… we then look at Step Six. Kenison lives outside Boston with her husband, Steven Lewers and their two sons. Her essays and articles have appeared in O, The Oprah Magazine, where she has been a contributing editor, and in Redbook, Ladies’ Home Journal, Family Circle, and Family Life. She coedited the anthology Mothers: Twenty Stories of Contemporary Motherhood and is the author of Mitton Strings for God: Reflections for Mothers in a Hurry. In 1999 she was coeditor, with John Updike, of the national best-seller The Best American Short Stories of the Century. Katrina Kenison has been the annual editor of The Best American Short Stories since 1990. Rolf and his wife, Mariam Gates, author of Good Night Yoga: A Pose by Pose Bedtime Story, live in Santa Cruz, California with their two children. Army Airborne Ranger who has practiced meditation for over twenty-five years, Rolf brings his eclectic background to his practice and his teachings. He is also on the Advisory Board for the Yoga Service Council and the Veterans Yoga Project. Rolf is the co-founder of the Yoga, Meditation and Recovery Conference at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California and the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in Lenox, Massachusetts and a teacher at Spirit Rock Insight Meditation Center in Northern California. Rolf and his work have been featured in numerous media, including Yoga Journal, ORGINS, Natural Health, People Magazine, and Travel and Leisure’s 25 Top Yoga Studios in the World. Rolf Gates, author of two acclaimed books on yogic philosophy, Meditations from the Mat: Daily Reflections on the Path of Yoga and Meditations on Intention and Being: Daily Reflections on the Path of Yoga, Mindfulness, and Compassion, conducts yoga workshops, retreats, teacher training, and coaching and mentorship programs throughout the U.S.
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