December 7

December 7 – AM          Page 86-87, Into Action, Chapter 6

In thinking about our day we may face indecision.  We may not be able to determine which course to take.  Here we ask God for inspiration, an intuitive thought or a decision. We relax and take it easy.  We don’t struggle.  We are often surprised how the right answers come after we have tried this for a while.  What used to be the hunch or the occasional inspiration gradually becomes a working part of the mind.  Being still inexperienced and having just made conscious contact with God, it is not probable that we are going to be inspired at all times.  We might pay for this presumption in all sorts of absurd actions and ideas.  Nevertheless, we find that our thinking will, as time passes, be more and more on the plane of inspiration.  We come to rely upon it.

December 7 – PM           Page 68-69, How It Works, Chapter 5

Now about sex.  Many of us needed an overhauling there.  But above all, we tried to be sensible on this question.  It’s so easy to get way off the track.  Here we find human opinions running to extremes—absurd extremes, perhaps.  One set of voices cry that sex is a lust of our lower nature, a base necessity of procreation.  Then we have the voices who cry for sex and more sex; who bewail the institution of marriage; who think that most of the troubles of the race are traceable to sex causes.  They think we do not have enough of it, or that it isn’t the right kind.  They see its significance everywhere.  One school would allow man no flavor for his fare and the other would have us all on a straight pepper diet.  We want to stay out of this controversy.  We do not want to be the arbiter of anyone’s sex conduct.  We all have sex problems.  We’d hardly be human if we didn’t.  What can we do about them?
We reviewed our own conduct over the years past.  Where had we been selfish, dishonest, or inconsiderate?  Whom had we hurt?  Did we unjustifiably arouse jealousy, suspicion or bitterness?  Where were we at fault, what should we have done instead?  We got this all down on paper and looked at it.