Nothing lasts forever

It is hard when people are struggling to maintain positive thoughts and knowledge of the fact that nothing lasts forever. I am currently struggling with something at work that bothers me a great deal. Not so long ago, my anxiety would have overridden everything else and I would have given up and ran away like I did so many times before. On my drive home from work, I attempted to calm myself with the fact that nothing lasts forever. While this is a particularly difficult time at work, it won't ALWAYS be this way. I won't be stressed out about work and school all of the time because I won't ALWAYS be in school either. I think one of the biggest lessons that I have learned in the past year has been patience. If I can maintain patience with everything in my life then I feel as if all will turn out okay. Here is yesterday's daily meditation from Answers in the Heart:

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they see nothing but sea. — Francis Bacon

When we are lost at sea, we may think that there is no such thing as land, so immense and frightening is the ocean that surrounds us. Nothing but huge stretches of grey, heaving water and the fear that we aren’t going to make it. We cringe and withdraw from rational thought and action. We become sick at heart. So it is with our addiction. At times it seems that our sex addiction is all we have, all we are. As long as we can remember and as far as we can see into the future, that’s all there is. We must shake ourselves free of that kind of obsessive thinking. We know there is land ahead and help at hand. We have seen other people recover and we have known recovery ourselves. There have been whole days, weeks, months, when we haven’t been lost in the sea of our addiction. Our program and our sisters and brothers are our lifeline. We will make a safe passage home if we believe in ourselves and our program.

I am learning to think in a rational manner about myself and my addiction. I know I will return to sanity if I continue to have faith in myself and my program.