Making Space

 Transformation takes discipline.  But it is not the same as the discipline you use in athletics, academics, or learning some new skill.  All this is your effort that will gain something.  It all relies on you.  But this is not transformation as in a spiritual practice.  You don’t so much master something, as you create a space in which some Power, not you, works to bring about an interior change that will then affect your attitude, and response to life on life’s terms.  The outward depends on the inward and you cannot do the inward by yourself.  That is why prayer and the practice of being of service to others is all part of this process of transformation.  In Christian circles, it would mean becoming mastered to the Spirit or the mind of Christ.  To the Alcoholic in recovery, it means making space for the Higher Power.