Synchronicity!

I prayed last night for guidance. I've been deluged with all these problems and I haven't been able to hear my inner voice any more. I miss it. I think today's Hazelden reading might be the answer to my prayer.

Today's thought from Hazelden is:

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves.
--Rainer Maria Rilke

We carry problems and discrepancies within us, quandaries that are not easily answered - and we have bigger questions about life and the world. Why did I act as I did in my younger years? Can my life partnership be happy again? How should I handle a secret that I carry? What is this thing we call Higher Power and God?

We are on a journey and, in some ways, this journey is a quest for answers. The questions give energy and direction to our seeking. We cannot expect to get quick or easy answers. And some questions will always remain just that: questions. But we can learn to be patient with ourselves, tolerant of our incompleteness, and always curious about how it will all turn out.

Today I will practice patience with myself and embrace my unsolved questions as crucial elements in my quest.
From: Wisdom to Know by Anonymous

From "The Gift of Change" by Marrianne Williamson:

When I am at the effect of the problem, I become part of the problem. When I am centered within myself, I become part of the solution. p. 10

It is said in Alcoholics Anonymous that every problem comes bearing its own solution. p. 14

...it is not enough to just seek the truth or even to know the truth. We must give ourselves permission now to live the truth as we understand it, with all its myriad implications for our lives. p. 18

When we begin to live the greater life- not "seek" it, so much as simply choose to participate in it- then and only then do we find that it's all around us, all the time. God is in our mind. Wherever we go, He's there. p. 19