Practicing Prayer

Step Eleven encourages us to practice prayer, to continue talking to our Higher Power daily, even when it seem like a senseless exercise. - OA 12 & 12, p.97

I realized recently how much anxiety I am working with on a day to day basis.  The solution to much of this is prayer and meditation -- and a little bit from my cognitive behavioural therapy tools.

The reading in Voices of Recovery today talks about learning how the writer needs to pray. S/he writes:

I thank God for my abstinence and my recovery.  I ask for help with my abstinence in the day ahead.  I offer my service.  I acknowledge the previous day's failings and ask to be shown how to do better.  I offer the day ahead to the service of God.  I pray for friends in and out of OA.  From the time I started this simply daily routine my recovery stopped plodding forward -- it sprang forward.

This.  I can do this.

Blessed be.