Q:
How do I best care for my alcoholic sister?
A:
You
surrender her / it to God and let go of wanting to control it. Trying
to intervene keeps someone in pain and robs them of karmic merit. […]
If you intervene, you’re robbing her of karmic merit and of what
she needs to know. She’s going to need to hit bottom, whether she
knows it or not. Intervening actually increases her suffering,
because every time you try to help, you change where she has to go to
hit bottom; now she has to go even lower. Do you love her enough to
surrender her to God? If she says, “I hate you, you’re deserting
me, I’m going to kill myself,” you say, “Well, that’s between
you and God.” You need the conviction, the first step in Al Anon.
Otherwise, you’re serving your own ego if you say, I’ve got to go
in there and intervene.
— Dr.
David Hawkins’ Sedona Seminar, April 17, 2004
[ Joel Goldsmith on Money, alcohol and tobacco ]
"Your
patience with your brother
is
your patience with yourself.
Is
not a child of God worth patience?
I
have shown you infinite patience
because
my will is that of our Father,
from
Whom I learned of infinite patience.
His
Voice was in me as It is in you,
speaking
for patience towards the Sonship
in
the Name of its Creator.
Now
you must learn that only infinite patience
produces
immediate effects.
This
is the way in which time is
exchanged
for eternity.
Infinite
patience calls upon infinite love,
and
by producing results now it
renders
time unnecessary."
ACIM
Ch.4.VI.11-12 Excerpts
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