my daily log contains my commitment to take 4 steps daily / commit to /practice

• honesty
• gratitude
• serenity
• centering prayer

and, as they say in AA ‘I may not always adhere to it, but I have it, the plan. Sometimes I have to shake things up, think of something different to do. For a while I made a list of points I am grateful for. Right now I listen to a folksy children’s song from around 1968 that meant a lot to me as an adolescent for that item;

serenity prayer is the core part of the maintenance steps of 12-steps

with reflections on each verse, you find it here:

I am not exactly crossing my fingers behind my back when I say it to myself, but I add the caveat – to make sure I don’t list things as unchangeable I CAN do…