A Nourishing Ingredient...

in my life has become humility. I like that description.

True humility and an open mind can lead us to faith, and every A.A. meeting is an assurance that God will restore us to sanity if we rightly relate ourselves to Him. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 33

A few days ago I was speaking with a friend about the word "humility". How I didn't even know what the word meant until I found recovery. I even wrote it down on a sheet of paper from the dictionary because I didn't understand how it had or did or would relate in my life.

I may eat a nourishing meal, fruits, vegetables, exercise and take vitamins that continue my physical health, but sometimes I have to remind myself of an ingredient that I need in my life now that I am in recovery and how I began the journey of humility in my life. Force fed at times.

While I eat the nourishing foods and exercise, they make me feel better physically. The nourishing ingredient of humility will make me feel better emotionally, mentally, physically and spiritually.

Some of us have never hit rock bottom to realize what we have taken for granted in our lives that God has given us. Family, food, a roof over our head, a job, etc...

As I have stated before, a sense of humility is not having to tell the next person that you see that you just gave a homeless man your leftovers from the restaurant that you just left. Humility is about feeling a sense of peace. Doing a favor unknown for a person. Sending flowers unaddressed, mowing your neighbors lawn and not telling them. It doesn't always take monetary means to add this nourishing ingredient into your life.

Humility is a nourishing essential ingredient that encourages me to feel peace instead of just relief.

How will you show this nourishing ingredient in your life this week? Godspeed