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Each day is a new beginning. I am given freedom of choice. https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/i...Zn1119dK1nxkMw |
Advice to Live By
If you want your dreams to come true, don't oversleep. The smallest good deed is better than the grandest intention. Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important. The best vitamin for making friends....B1. The 10 commandments are not multiple choice. The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts. Minds are like parachutes.. .they function only when open. Ideas won't work unless YOU do. One thing you can't recycle is wasted time. One who lacks the courage to start has already finished. The heaviest thing to carry is a grudge. Don't learn safety rules by accident. We lie the loudest when we lie to ourselves. Jumping to conclusions can be bad exercise. A turtle makes progress when it sticks its head out. One thing you can give and still keep...is your word. A friend walks in when everyone else walks out. AND FINALLY... The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a lifetime!!! http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q...rflys/GLIT.jpg |
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The last line reminds me of what I use to say to others prior to recovery, "If you are going to pray for me, pray quietly so I can't hear you. The more you say don't, I do!" They say that recovery is a change of attitude sufficient to aid recovery. Mine had to go and I had to go on a spiritual quest to find out who my God was to me. http://www.angelwinks.ca/images/icq/...ipgoodwill.jpg |
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.. there is no cure except to keep so close to the thought of God that nothing, no other interest, can seriously come between you and God. Sure of that, you can stay on God's side. 24 Hours A Day What an empowering thought. My spiritual advisor use to say that anything that came between me and who my God would have me be, becomes the god of my life. I need to stay close to Him and not let the outside things take over my obsessive, compulsive mind. This is a one day at a time program. It is a program of practice, practicing the spiritual principles of the program. I can't, my God can.... http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vSh0C0BmyO...+greetings.gif |
Five Ways You Can Face Obstacles and Turn Them Into Blessings
1) Never dwell on the cause of the obstacle. Rise above it and change the way you respond to it. It only has as much power as you're willing to give it. 2) Check your attitude. Know that you have the ability to control the outcome, and/or to choose the answer that's right for you. 3) Think of an alternative. If one answer doesn't work, or if it doesn't feel right, try another way to get to the best solution. 4) Realize that your view of the obstacle is what may determine how much impact it has on your life. 5) Think about what you were doing just before the obstacle happened. Don't make excuses to yourself. Turn the obstacle into a positive motivator. Then find a way to move toward your goal. --unknown https://tse4.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.M...=0&w=300&h=300 |
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Soundness of mind is hard to achieve if we don't learn to let go and let our God direct our path. http://angelwinks.ca/images/thoughtp...ughtpod963.jpg |
God and the Spider http://bestanimations.com/Animals/In...der-gif-25.gif During World War II, a US marine was separated from his unit on a Pacific island. The fighting had been intense, and in the smoke and the crossfire he had lost touch with his comrades. Alone in the jungle, he could hear enemy soldiers coming in his direction. Scrambling for cover, he found his way up a high ridge to several small caves in the rock. Quickly he crawled inside one of the caves. Although safe for the moment, he realized that once the enemy soldiers looking for him swept up the ridge, they would quickly search all the caves and he would be killed. As he waited, he prayed, "Lord, if it be your will, please protect me. Whatever your will though, I love you and trust you. Amen." After praying, he lay quietly listening to the enemy begin to draw close. He thought, "Well, I guess the Lord isn't going to help me out of this one." Then he saw a spider begin to build a web over the front of his cave. As he watched, listening to the enemy searching for him all the while, the spider layered strand after strand of web across the opening of the cave. "Hah," he thought. "What I need is a brick wall and what the Lord has sent me is a spider web. God does have a sense of humor." As the enemy drew closer he watched from the darkness of his hideout and could see them searching one cave after another. As they came to his, he got ready to make his last stand. To his amazement, however, after glancing in the direction of his cave, they moved on. Suddenly, he realized that with the spider web over the entrance, his cave looked as if no one had entered for quite a while. "Lord, forgive me," prayed the young man. "I had forgotten that in you a spider's web is stronger than a brick wall." We all face times of great trouble. When we do, it is so easy to forget the victories that God would work in our lives, sometimes in the most surprising ways. As the great leader, Nehemiah, reminded the people of Israel when they faced the task of rebuilding Jerusalem, "In God we will have success!" [Nehemiah 2:20] Remember: Whatever is happening in your life, with God, a mere spider's web can become a brick wall of protection. Believe He is with you always. Just speak His name through Jesus His son, and you will see His great power and love for you. |
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From "Meditations for Women Who Do Too Much" by Anne Wilson Schaef
If God is a fly on the wall, Nanny, hand me a fly swatter. - Gaby Brimmer Even Jesus felt forsaken by God. We can identify with him. We have been angry with God, and we have abandoned our Higher Power because we felt abandoned. This God on whom we want to depend simply refuses to live our lives for us. We want to turn it all over to our Higher Power and lie back and relax, and old H.P. is not cooperating. Where's the fly swatter? If my Higher Power won't do it my way, to hell with it. Right! Enjoying ourselves, are we? Isn't this fun? A fight with God - that should keep us occupied for quite some time. When I feel abandoned by my Higher Power, I am the one who has gone away. http://www.animatedimages.org/data/m...image-0037.gif |
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