“You must be a fool to want to stop the march of time.”
~ Pierre Renoir ~
Fear of the future brought fear of change. My need to control made me avoid new or confusing ideas. My alcoholism wanted me to escape into the past; tomorrow was too fearful to contemplate.
At other times—and this is one of the reasons why alcoholism is cunning, baffling, and powerful—I wanted to escape into tomorrow and avoid the reality of today. Time and reality were concepts to be played with rather than experienced.
But time moves on, it progresses just like the disease, and if I want to be a winner in this world, I need to move with it. God is to be experienced in the march of time. Today I want to be in relationship with God.
Teach me to respect time as an opportunity for growth.
© 2008 Leo Booth
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