Experience, Strength And Hope

responsibility and a great deal to share with those who still suffer. I can also see how my choices have effected my day to day living and my feelings about myself. I can see now that holding on to anger and animosity only distorts my perceptions and generates both physical and emotional pain. I can see how my need to control others with my feelings and behaviors is dishonest and destructive, not just to others, but to myself as well. I have come to recognize that if I am going to continue to recover and to remain free of pain, shame and fear I must take responsibility for all of my actions and choices.
    So, when I discover myself playing a manipulitive game to get what I feel that I deserve and need, I must, in all honestly, expose that game. I must tell everyone who might be caught up in it, that I have been playing it and that I wish to stop it before anyone is injured by it, including myself. The willingness to do this one thing has made more of a difference in my life than just about anything else.
    The willingness to allow others their games, and not become caught up in them, or condemning them for playing them, is the second most important thing that I have learned. The truth is, we will never be free of games, for they are an aspect of our creative selves. Nevertheless, there are constructive games, as well as destructive games. I seek only to play constructive games, games that promote love, not hate; games that heal, not hurt; games that serve without the need to exact due service. Through these games I have developed what I believe to be vision and insight. Through these games I have developed a life filled with the light of understanding and the promise of joy and peace. Through these games I have come in contact with the Spiritual Force that underlies the happenings of the time. These games are based upon a sense of honest play and the drive to actually enjoy each moment while looking for the lessons hidden within each experience and the promise of each challenge bringing enlightenment and understanding.
    Some days it seems that is all it is, a game I play with myself. Still, most of the time, I revel in the joy and the freedom that I gain from playing these games. For instance, I play the game of acceptance, although at times it is difficult to remember that I can't

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