Reflection for the Day
The Program teaches me to work for progress, not perfection. That simple admonition gives me great comfort, for it represents a primary way in which my life today is so different from what it used to be. In my former life, perfection—for all its impossibility—was so often my number one goal. Today I can believe that if I sometimes fail, I’m not a failure—and if I sometimes make mistakes, I’m not a mistake. And I can apply those same beliefs to the Program’s Twelve Steps as well as to my entire life. Do I believe that only Step One can be practiced with perfection, and that the remaining Steps represent perfect ideals?
Today I Pray
God, teach me to abandon my erstwhile goal of superhuman perfection in everything I did or said. I know now that I was actually bent on failure, because I could never attain those impossible heights I had established for myself. Now that I understand this pattern, may I no longer program my own failures.
Today I Will Remember
I may strive to be a super person, but not a super-person.
© 1989 by Hazelden Foundation
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