“But you told me if I wrote down what I expected from sobriety, I would sell myself short.”

Without even knowing it I started to investigate, in a quiet and very deep way, what it would be like not to be at war with my own mind. I had to let go of the idea of what meditation was supposed to be. I was supposed to feel a certain way; it was supposed to lead me into some deep state of being. But because I could not master the technique of meditation as it was being taught to me, I had to discover a different way of meditating, one that wasn’t oriented around a technique. So, I started to let go of trying to control my experience. That became the beginning of discovering for myself what True Meditation is. From that point on, that shift—moving from trying to perfect a technique or discipline to actually letting go of technique and discipline—started to inform the way I engage in meditation.

Meditation for the Day “I must trust God to the best of my ability. This lesson has to be learned. My doubts and fears continually drive me back into the wilderness. Doubts lead me astray, because I am not trusting God. I must trust God's love. It will never fail me, but I must learn not to fail it by my doubts and fears. We all have much to learn in turning out fear by faith. All our doubts arrest God's work through us. I must not doubt. I must believe in God and continually work at strengthening my faith.” Prayer for the Day “I pray that I may live the way God wants me to live. I pray that I may get into that stream of goodness in the world.”