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Post by SunnyGirl on May 1, 2012 14:04:03 GMT -5
A is for: Attitude
“You cannot control what happens to you, but you can
control your Attitude toward what happens to you, and
in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing
it to master you.” - - Brian Tracy
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Post by SunnyGirl on May 2, 2012 14:09:12 GMT -5
B is for: Balance
Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of Balance,
order, rhythm and harmony.” —Thomas Merton
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Post by caressa on May 2, 2012 14:19:15 GMT -5
C is for Care. I need to put my life into the care of my God. I don't sit back and become complacent and expect Him to do it all, I need to participate in my own recovery. Attachments:
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Post by caressa on May 4, 2012 18:16:11 GMT -5
D is for Detachment. Detachment doesn't mean we don't love someone, it is because we do love them, that we need to detach so we don't enable and do their recovery for them or allow them to jeoprodize our own daily recovery. Attachments:
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Post by caressa on May 6, 2012 1:52:33 GMT -5
E is for Emotions. For many years we didn't acknowledge them. We didn't allow ourselves to feel them and we used people, places and things to stuff them. In today, I take them to my HP, sponsor, and the people in my support group. Attachments:
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Post by SunnyGirl on May 6, 2012 15:36:47 GMT -5
F is for: Fear & Faith
“You block your dream when you allow your Fear
to grow bigger than your Faith.” —Mary Manin Morrissey
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Post by caressa on May 6, 2012 19:15:44 GMT -5
G is for Gratitude. If you have some gratitude, show it. If you don't have any gratitude, don't show it! Gratitude is an action word. Service is a good way to show your gratitude and make indirect amends. Attachments:
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Post by SunnyGirl on May 7, 2012 14:06:36 GMT -5
H is for: Humanness
“Humanness consists in harmony of thought, word and deed.”
—Sri Sathya Sai Baba
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Post by caressa on May 7, 2012 16:10:10 GMT -5
I is for Ideal. The ideal way to stay clean and sober is not to pick up that fiirst drug, no matter what. It can be an idea, but if you let the thought go, it won't seem like a good idea to go out and use. Attachments:
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Post by SunnyGirl on May 8, 2012 11:31:41 GMT -5
J is for: Judgment
“Good Judgment comes from experience, and often
experience comes from bad Judgment.” —Rita Mae Brown
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Post by SunnyGirl on May 9, 2012 16:19:55 GMT -5
K is for: Kindness
A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart,
for without Kindness, there can be no true joy.
- - Thomas Carlyle
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Post by caressa on May 9, 2012 16:39:29 GMT -5
L is for Love. When it comes from a place of love, you know you are in a good place. Attachments:
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Post by SunnyGirl on May 10, 2012 14:30:21 GMT -5
M is for: Mistake
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you
to recognize a Mistake when you make it again.
- - Franklin P. Jones
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Post by caressa on May 12, 2012 3:19:37 GMT -5
N is for "No!" It is a complete sentence. You don't have to give an explaination, you don't have to justify, or give a definative answer as to why you are saying, "No!"  |
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Post by SunnyGirl on May 12, 2012 14:25:12 GMT -5
O is for: Open Minded
“The Open-minded see the truth in different things:
the narrow-minded see only the differences.” — Unknown
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Post by caressa on May 13, 2012 22:55:07 GMT -5
P is for Price. We paid a high price to get to the doors of recovery. We don't need to continue paying, but we do need to pay our way according to the 7th Tradition. Attachments:
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Post by SunnyGirl on May 14, 2012 13:44:34 GMT -5
Q is for: Quiet
“We need Quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly.
Spending Quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to
renew itself and create order.” - - Susan L. Taylor
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Post by Lin on May 16, 2012 12:02:24 GMT -5
R is for RESENTMENTS. They hold us back and keep us sicker. We ned to learn ways to let go fo them or avoid little problems turning into resentments.
LIN
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Post by SunnyGirl on May 17, 2012 15:15:47 GMT -5
S is for: Serenity
"The Serenity of mind, gentleness, silence, self-restraint, and
the purity of mind are called the austerity of thought."
- - Bhagavad Gita
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Post by caressa on May 17, 2012 16:46:05 GMT -5
T is for TRY. The last three letters of Just For Today. All we are asked to do is try, the failure is in the not trying. Attachments:
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. I will be back looking for Lin and others.