I greet The Indwelling Freedom.
Today’s “Pay Forward” gift is – Choose - Prison Or Playground. “The last of the human freedoms is to choose one’s attitudes" (Victor Frankel). When taking A.A. meetings and workshops into prisons, I realized that some of the prisoners had accepted their conditions, others had not. Those who had an attitude of acceptance did better. Those who could not accept their imprisonment was often doing “hard time." In either case, it’s not a playground. A great benefit as a volunteer over being a prisoner, we are free to go outside the prison walls. However, some of us built our own prison walls, within. We are all serving a life sentence; shall it be prison or a playground? Alcoholics Anonymous gives us the tools to make the time served a gift to us and humanity. By our Father’s grace, we have what it takes to transcend our limits. Our attitude is an expression of our habits; our beliefs, I call our personal “reality.” We have the freedom and the tools to replace our habits. Building a habit of giving of ourselves, we expand our freedom with a love deeper than words. We pay a high price for demanding our way instead of seeking to do the Will of our Father. Love of sharing is free for the taking and brings out the best of us, which is real freedom. Let us be a loving volunteer; our Father’s channel or agent. Thy Love, Thy Will be done.