"You cannot see the future. It's a blessing that you cannot. You could not bear to know all the future. That is why God only reveals it to you day by day."
I've always liked the use of the word "cannot." Doesn't it sound a lot weightier than "can't?" "You canNOT believe that I'm interested in what you're talking about." It has a commanding tone. I also like adding "at all" to my sentences. It is also weighty. "You do not interest me AT ALL." See the power there? There's no chance that you can misinterpret my intentions when I tack that "at all" onto the end of the sentence.
I think I could handle the future. I think God is making a mistake by not allowing me to see the future. I think God is making a big mistake by not letting me control the future.
I don't get to change the past. I can clean up my mistakes. I can learn from them but I can't rewrite what has happened as much as I'd like to do that from time to time. Similarly, the future is out of my hands as much as this galls my gallbladder. Honestly, the past is overrated. It has been done to death.
"Your attitude toward your problems can be changed by putting yourself and your problems in God's hands and trusting him to to see that everything will turn out all right, provided you are trying to do the right thing."
Another overrated thing? Trying to do the right thing. Overrated. My attitude toward my problems is just fine.
The good news is that there's a solution - the bad news is that it's us.
Demoralize: To destroy the morale of; to dishearten.
A great line from our literature is "pitiful and incomprehensible demoralization."
Funny how service goes from being a huge, huge thing to becoming a small, simple thing. Don't be an asshole. Think of someone else. Be nice. My expectations of the world have gotten smaller and smaller as I've stayed sober.
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