Commitment
I'm sure at one point in time in most of our lives, commitment might have been a "dirty" word. I can remember saying "I'm a free spirit. I'm not committed to anything." But honestly, that never felt right for me. I believe I was trying to be someone I was never meant to be.
Then there were other times in my life when, because of my situation and/or my disease, I couldn't be committed to the things I really wanted to be committed to. I had lost the "glue" that bonded me to my commitments. I had lost my higher Self.
We have all heard it said that our word is our bond. And when we give our word, we make a commitment to whatever we said we would do.
But in order for others to trust you, you usually have to display some basic principles that others recognize and that hold true and, therefore, agree to your word.
Where do these principles in our lives come from?
While growing up, I'm sure most of us were taught the simple, yet important, rules in life: Don't lie; don't cheat or steal; don't be cruel, etc. Yes, our parents said a lot of other things we can all chuckle about now. But seriously, most of us were given some pretty simple rules to help us build our characters.
When we didn't follow those simple rules/guidelines, our characters (and more) were in question. Also, it wasn't always easy following those rules. We had to become committed to following them. And even when the outcome wasn't what we wanted, we followed the rules anyway.
Today, commitment is the same. It's not always easy to keep our commitments, but it's important that we keep them. It's important to ourselves, to the ones to whom we made the commitment and to everyone we come in contact with. It's the glue that holds humans together. This glue not only gives us character, but it also guides us when we don't know the answers. This glue is also our faith. So the type of glue that is used in your life will determine on how you hold up through diversity, and hard times, which we all experience in the world of duality.
So, over the month of September and a little into October, I'd like to talk about the very principles upon which we can draw to build our character and cement our commitment to God, ourselves and others.
I invite you to follow along as the discussion continues in the Ah-Man Blog this month.
Peace and Love,
Michael
Spiritual Recovery is all-inclusive and non-sectarian; available to any man or woman, regardless of age. It happens when someone is reconnected to Spirit, allowing one to begin to see things from a different perspective. There's usually a common thread that brings one to seek Spiritual Recovery. That thread is pain: physical, mental or emotional. On rare occasions, it can be a joyous or spectacular life event that brings one to Spiritual Recovery. But in most cases, it will be life's painful events that we explore. 
