“But it is clear that we made our own misery. God didn’t do it.” (Page 133, Big Book)
I do this when I permit depressing or anxiety-inducing thoughts to rest in my mind without counteraction.
The states I find myself in are invariably the states I have created myself.
They are not created by my events or circumstances.
Someone said he was facing a ‘horrendous situation’.
I’ve learned not to say such things.
I face situations: any ‘horrendousness’ is in my judgement, and I do not want to plant ‘horrendousness’ in my mind, deny I have done so, and project it outwards, locating it in the world, where, apparently, I can do nothing about it.
Every situation is a situation that I can capitalise as an opportunity to demonstrate God’s omnipotence.