Being still inexperienced and having just made conscious contact with God, it is not probable that we are going to be inspired at all times. What used to be the hunch or the occasional inspiration gradually becomes a working part of the mind. We are often surprised how the right answers come after we have tried this for a while. Here we ask God for inspiration, an intuitive thought or a decision. We may not be able to determine which course to take. In thinking about our day we may face indecision. Our thought-life will be placed on a much higher plane when our thinking is cleared of wrong motives. Under these conditions we can employ our mental faculties with assurance, for after all God gave us brains to use. Before we begin, we ask God to direct our thinking, especially asking that it be divorced from self-pity, dishonest or self-seeking motives. “On awakening let us think about the twenty-four hours ahead. On the other hand-and strange as this may seem to those who do not understand-once a psychic change has occurred, the very same person who seemed doomed, who had so many problems he despaired of ever solving them, suddenly finds himself easily able to control his desire for alcohol, the only effort necessary being that required to follow a few simple rules.” This is repeated over and over, and unless this person can experience an entire psychic change there is very little hope of his recovery. After they have succumbed to the desire again, as so many do, and the phenomenon of craving develops, they pass through the well-known stages of a spree, emerging remorseful, with a firm resolution not to drink again. They are restless, irritable and discontented, unless they can again experience the sense of ease and comfort which comes at once by taking a few drinks-drinks which they see others taking with impunity. To them, their alcoholic life seems the only normal one. The sensation is so elusive that, while they admit it is injurious, they cannot after a time differentiate the true from the false. “Men and women drink essentially because they like the effect produced by alcohol. Many of us have wasted a lot of time doing that and it doesn’t work. We are careful never to pray for our own selfish ends. We may ask for ourselves, however, if others will be helped. We ask especially for freedom from self-will, and are careful to make no request for ourselves only. We usually conclude the period of meditation with a prayer that we be shown all through the day what our next step is to be, that we be given whatever we need to take care of such problems. Nevertheless, we find that our thinking will, as time passes, be more and more on the plane of inspiration. We might pay for this presumption in all sorts of absurd actions and ideas.
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