Ride the WavesReflections by Steve L.

A Wave

October 4, 2025 · flint

“My problem was this perfection personality trait morphed into a monster; the chief critic mentality spread throughout my entire life.”

Three readings. A song that says the rest. And inspiration for whatever this day is here to teach.

A lone surfer riding inside a great curling wave

Read — the readings that opened the day

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Reading

Dalai Lama

“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion."

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Today’s Gift. Stepping Stones: More Daily Meditations

Hazelden Foundation

“To accept & honor others, we put ourselves in their place, looking to understand and accept what their challenges have been. Nothing is more admirable than acting generously and compassionately toward another human being. Today, I ask You to help me have compassion seeing and accepting others doing their best to overcome their own issues.”

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Twenty Four Hours a Day

Hazelden Foundation

“To be attracted toward God and a better life, you must be Spirit-guided. There is wonderful illumination of thought given to those who are Spirit-guided. To those who are material-guided, there is nothing in God or a finer life to appeal to them, or to attract them. But to those who are Spirit-guided there is strength, peace and calm to be found in communion with an Unseen Lord. To those who believe in this God they cannot see, but whose power they can feel, life has a meaning and purpose. They are children of the Unseen Lord, and all human beings are their brothers and sisters. Prayer for the Day Today, I pray that I may be Spirit-guided. I pray that I may feel God's presence and power in my life.”