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I was the only one who could make it happen. I wouldn't let my pain rule my day. I made some healthy choices and learned to live each day as it came, not look into the past or project into the future. Just live each day as it comes. Some days i can, some days I can't, and that is okay. http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=13769 |
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GOD'S HOTEL http://www.animated-gifs.eu/phone-240x320-rain/0074.gif I checked you in again last night, my child, Because it hurt me so bad to see you out there running wild. All tired and sucked up you appeared to me But put a mirror in front of you, and you can't even see; That you are a number among the walking dead, Sores all over your body, confusion in your head. Jail is not the place you want to be But it's my hotel, where I can work on thee you see. You weren't just arrested, you were rescued from yourself. I had to bring you back here, to put your habit on the shelf. Give you some rest, some food, and some talk Encourage you and love you, before I let you walk. Don't be like a mule that's led around by a bit, Just listen to your warnings, and I can help you quit. This could be the last time you have to come into this place, Just listen to me the Creator Of All with tears upon my face... Original Source Unknown - posted on FB's Addict's Mom |
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There are very few people in my life that I can honestly say that I hate. I may hate what they are doing, but don't hate them as a person. It helps to look at them as a child of God, and they are deserving of recovery even though they may choose not to go that route. All I can do is pray for them. I know that my God loves me. I know He loves you too! http://www.animated-gifs.eu/avatars-...sects/0145.gif |
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Archangel Michael~ Oh beautiful splendor of love and light, shine forth your essence of joy to this world, illuminating all darkness with your divine presence of light. For within you resides an inner well of unfathomable joy, unspeakable splendor, unending love, untouchable peace, and unmovable truth so deep, that nothing can penetrate or even come close to touching it's essence.~ http://i667.photobucket.com/albums/v...styJo/0031.gif |
We are co-creators of our own universe. Often our thoughts are left unsaid and they end up stewed and boiling around in our head and they come out in ways that are better left unsaid or they are spewed out in anger and resentment. What we can cook up in our own head can be astonishing, especially when we are using, any substance, not just food! We try to manipulate, intellectualize, change things around so that they are of our own thinking and the way we want them to be, rather than the reality of what they are. We often embellish by adding things on so they sound good, or we make them the way we think others would have us do, or we leave them unseasoned, and they come out uninteresting and totally blah! Or they are so hot and spicy, they aren't edible and something others don't want to partake of. We often disguise them in a way, so that things are hidden and we are trying to get our own way and we don't want people to really know that they originated with someone else, rather than taking ownership for our actions and words. We say things which we try to make good so we will be accepted, loved, affirmed and validated. I think it is called being human. But with my Higher Power, I no longer have to listen to my Lower Power, and I can change for the good. |
This is a program of reflection. What we put out, we get back, not always from the same source. I found myself in the rooms of recovery. I was told to take what I found there, apply it to my life and take it into my home and the community. Sometimes when things get dark, I know there is a solution through the 12 Steps and Traditions of recovery. I recovered my relationship with my God, and no matter where He leads, I know He will see me through it. Quote:
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God called and said, Solitude is... When we cease to fear loneliness and begin to cherish and use our solitude to advantage, we have come a long way. We realize a little solitude is necessary to think and to try to work some of the Steps. In solitude, we take our inventories. In solitude, we admit the exact nature of our wrongs. In solitude, our spirits seek that Power greater than we are; in solitude, we seek through prayer and meditation to be aware of God's will for us. - Came To Believe . . ., p. 109 Grace is a wonderful quality of the Spirit. When it is manifested in our lives, it brings the energy that uplifts our vibrations and clears the inner barriers. To be in a state of grace is to put into practice the certainty that if we knock the door will be opened, and if we ask it will he be given unto us. http://www.animated-gifs.eu/phone-24...ngels/0176.gif |
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Pity Potholes
"Walk Softly and Carry a Big Book" - Book Along the road well travelled, there are many pity potholes. Not sure about the rest of you, but this speaks to me from all directions. I think all members from whatever fellowship has been on a pity pot and often let it grow into a party, most times it is a party of one, although I have been where there have been two and three. Not a nice place, and not somewhere you want to stay long at, you say your hellos and then a quick goodbye if you are lucky. If you look at the other participants, you can see your reflection and you will not want any part of it, when you are alone, you tend to stay there longer. When pity comes out, it is time for a gratitude list. As my sponsor said, "If you have one hand in the hand of your Higher Power and the other hand in the hand of a newcomer, you have no hands left to pick up. What are you doing, bring your Higher Power to the pity pot or did you leave Him behind? Mind you better the hole than the pot! Many years ago, I got snowed in at work and couldn`t get home and a friend let me have a bed for the night. I had to go out and buy a few essentials and I was not a happy camper. On the third day, I went in to see my boss for a price check, and he said, `Go away, I don`t have time for that.` I told him that I needed it right away and not to give me a hard time, I wasn`t in a good mood because I had to wear the same clothes three days in a row. He replied, `That isn`t my fault. Get off the pity pot, you probably have one of those old out houses out back.` I said, `No, that was pushed over last Halloween.` He burst out laughing and gave me my price. He was very brisk and his bark was worse than his bite. You just couldn`t let him intimidate you. When I think of pity pot, I think of the two-seater we had when I was growing up on the farm. ;) http://www.angelwinks.net/images/clowns/clowns14.gif |
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