Today’s Reflection March 12

Take The Action

The sponsor can help us conquer the delusion that me should only do what we feel like doing. “Take the action,” the sponsor says, “and the feelings will follow, I/ you wait for the feelings first, it’ll never happen,”(SA 73).

Often I recall situations when I ignored actions I could have taken because I just did not feel like it. Some of these were small matters, seemingly of no particular importance, such as picking up litter strewn on the street or going to visit a dying friend who had only day to live. I thought I would do it when I felt up to it, but I never got that chance.

My SA sponsor helped me to see how doing the next right thing, whether. I feel like it or not, is essential to my recovery and enhance my life. Perhaps I do not feel like helping my spouse tonight or phoning an SA member or praying to my Higher Power. “Do it anyway,” I was advised. “‘The feeling will follow.” I have grown to love that adage.

Today, whenever I hear myself saying I do not feel like doing something, I catch myself, swing into action, and to do it anyway. Perhaps I do not want to go to a meeting. However, when I go I feel better, connected, and a part of the fellowship. No matter what the occasion, I am helped when I take the action.

I am grateful for the blessings that have come my way as a result of stepping into action.