Thursday 5 May 2016

For Today: Patience with the things that take time; Growth

No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us.  To live is to be slowly born.  - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I grew a little bit yesterday.  I had my first meeting with someone who asked me to sponsor them in OA.  And I realized in talking to her, how much I have learned.  And how much I still need to learn.  Both are growth.

The reading today has the lovely quote about "to live is to be slowly born" by the French war pilot and writer, Antoine de Saint-Exupery. 

It continues with the meditation:  "for today:  a flower takes a season to grow, a tree long years to mature.  Each growing thing, myself included, has a timetable for growth."  And the challenge is to accept this process and have growth unfold as it needs to.

Blessed be.

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