I was going to lead with this quote from today’s Insight Timer: Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you Walt Whitman but I don’t think I agree with what it says. Those areas of my life which fall under the category of “shadow” call out, through step work, to be looked at and acknowledged. In so doing, I learn to recognize when and why I am out of alignment. When I ask my Higher Power to help me, I am inviting the Light into that which I try to keep hidden. Shadow cannot exist in Light.
When I ‘keep my face always toward the sunshine’, I am inviting that Light into all areas of my life, positive and otherwise. Prior to Step 4, I can feel like I’m standing on an anthill, wondering why I keep being bitten. I learn to step off of the anthill, rather than cursing the ants for being ants. The Light shows me where I am ‘standing on anthills’ so that I can take whatever action is required.
I have within me the Power to choose to take action, and I have the responsibility to myself to do just that once I’ve identified those shadow issues. The spectrum of colors within the Sunlight finds their matches in the shadows, and cancels them. I have to get my big ole ego out of the way in order to facilitate the ‘next right action’, and turn my attention always to the Light.
Such a gift! I’m grateful for the attention to detail which working the Steps of AA demands of me, allowing me to live my life in the Sunlight of the Spirit.
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