For Today

She opens her mouth in wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue. – Proverbs 31:26

I have said in the past, " I have a good heart but a bad tongue". I have many times spoken out of anger sober and drunk, I have hurt the ones most dear to my heart. You can never take the hurtful things back. Now in my sobriety I find I am still a passionate person, I still tend to be led by my emotions. I am working daily on controlling my thoughts and feelings. I try to rehearse my reactions in my head before I act on them. Making sure my motives are good and I try to speak words of life and encouragement.

Today is a new day, another chance to get it right. I will go and do my service work at the church then pick up Tim's medicine. After that I will head on over to pay the light bill. I may pop into Boots and Pearls and get a new dress. I love that little shop, she has really cute clothes. I will come home and prepare lunch for mom then, I will meet with a couple of my sponsee's . I really enjoy being an accountability partner. It has become my ministry. I really look forward to seeing and working the steps with my girls. It gives me joy to see them grow in their sobriety and in Gods word..

It's 5:30 am and the challenge is on, I just checked my facebook and there it is a message on my wall that sends me reeling .... The Lord really wants me to get this right I guess, he sure has started the lesson early this morning. So here I sit, thinking and stewing and what do I hear? Kind words are like a honeycomb.... I am like really? Really Lord! It is hard to come from love and kindness when your angry with someone, but over the years my way hasn't worked out so well, so maybe this approach is the answer. Maybe God is on to something. Maybe for today I should take his suggestion and do His will not mine. It's hard to love difficult people. God puts them in front of us for his reason. So today I am going to have wisdom in mouth and kindness on my tongue.

I hope you have a wonderful day.

With Love,

Carla Jean