Reflection for January 8

If you drink to forget, please pay in advance.

—Tavern sign

Reflection

If we drink to forget a problem, when we regain our
senses, we will have several other problems to deal
with, i.e. physical debility, financial debility, spiritual
debility, and any and all other debilities.

Affirmation

Today, let me put problems in perspective, so that I
may deal with them as if they can be resolved without
war, bloodshed, or lingering anger.

Malachy McCOURT