“Today, I’ll stick with Costco premium and not try to redline my car or life.”

We filter our experience through perceptual screens. No occurrence has any absolute reality; everyone who observes it will call it something different. We see the world not as it is, but as we are. No event is intrinsically good or bad; it is the eyes through which we see that make it one or the other. Experiment with finding the good in every experience. Even if an event seems to be a threat or a problem, adopt a vision through which it can empower you. When you behold life through the eyes of love, you will find the beauty of God everywhere. Today, I choose to use Your vision to see the good in all people and experiences.

Adapted from A Deep Breath of Life

Many of us have taken either superior or inferior roles with everyone we've dealt with. We ended up with no one who could be our peer or our friend. True humility occurs when we stop shaming or inflating ourselves and begin accepting ourselves as no worse and no better than anyone else. All people are our peers. At our meetings, our powerlessness puts us all in the same box. In the sight of God we are all equal - and status games, which have seemed so important are ultimately silly. Today, I will remember we are all brothers and sisters in the sight of God.

Adapted from Touchstones Meditations

My path is not your path; therefore I cannot teach you. The way is within us, but not in Gods, nor in teachings, nor in laws. Deep within each of us is the way, the truth, and the life. Woe betide those who live by way of examples! If you live according to an example, you thus live the life of that example. Who should live your own life if not yourself? So live yourselves. The signposts have fallen. You seek the path? There is only one way and that is your way. I warn you away from my own. It can also be the wrong way for you. May each go his own way.

Adapted from "Liber Novus" (The Red Book)

Meditation for the Day With God's help, I will build a protective screen around myself, which will keep out all evil thoughts. I will fashion it out of my attitude toward God and my attitude toward other people. When one worrying or impatient thought enters my mind, I will put it out at once. I know that love and trust are the solvents for the worry and frets of life. I will use them to form a protective screen around me. Prayer for the Day I pray that frets and impatience and worry may not corrode my protective screen against all evil thoughts. I pray that I may banish all these from my life.

Adapted from Twenty-Four Hours a Day© 1975, Hazelden Foundation. All rights reserved.