As the wheel of the decades turns, so do a person’s needs, desires, and tasks. Each of us does, in effect,
strike a series of “deals” or compromises between the wants and longings of the inner self, and an outer
environment that offers certain possibilities and sets certain limitations. —Maggie Scarf—
What life has measured out may not be what we had dreamed of. Life’s lessons may not be those
we’d have chosen to learn. Wisdom dictates that the joy of life is proportional to the ease with which we accept those possibilities for growth that have grown out of our inner desires.
Our desires are like an outline for a written assignment, a research project. They help us to see where we want to go at any one time, but as we move the direction may need to change. The natural flow of “the assignment” will help to refine it.
We may not have tried to “realize” many of our desires in the past. But the time has come. One of the joys of recovery is that we understand our desires are closely related to our spiritual program and our recovery. And we know we are not alone. We need to attend to the inner desires that beckon to us. They are calling us to move forward.
Today, I can take the first few steps.