Rolling
Thunder Cherokee
Yes,
there is a long period of reconstruction ahead. We must take the lead. A
remorseful mumbling we are sorry won't fill the bill at all. We ought to sit
down with the family and frankly analyze the past as we now see it, being very
careful not to criticize them. Their defects may be glaring, but the chances
are that our own actions are partly responsible. So we clean house with the
family, asking each morning in meditation that our Creator show us the way of
patience, tolerance, kindliness and love.
The
spiritual life is not a theory. We have to live it. Unless one's family
expresses a desire to live upon spiritual principals we think we ought not urge
them. We should not talk incessantly to them about spiritual matters. They will
change in time. Our behavior will convince them more than our words. We must
remember that ten or twenty years of drunkenness would make a skeptic out of
anyone.
Big
Book pg. 83
Great
Spirit let us live the road of truth.