Thoughts Just For Today

[majestyjo]

SOME TIMES LIFE HAPPENS AND LIFE GETS IN THE WAY!



Sep 29, 2014



Simply sit or lie down in a relaxed and loose position. Breathe. Wait. Know that the Creator exists in your body. Close your eyes and slowly go through each part of your body, starting with your feet. Give each part of yourself a personality, and imagine speaking to that part to see if there is anything that it wants you to know. Complete the meditation by telling each part how much you love and appreciate it.



Denise Linn

[majestyjo]

Alkiespeak - Book - Quote

We're all here because we're not all there.- Fr Joe M.

In a way this is very true, because every time I picked up a drink or a drug, I gave away a piece of me. It just sounds hurtful, and although I liked to think I had thick skin, things like this bothered me.

Have heard that line many times over the years, and yet it is part of the saying we hear in the room that I find abusive. When we are new in recovery, we need affirmations and made to feel worthy.

One of the things that really got me going was calling sponsees pigeons. It might have been because there was an issue with them in my building, but I think they are the dirtiest of the dirty, and that is how I felt when I came in and I didn't like having it affirmed by someone trying to be cute.

I brought it up at a meeting once and was told, it was good for Bill and Dr. Bob so it is good enough for me. Well life changes, we have new awareness, and I don't think they realized in the 1930s that it was abusive. It is like the old saying, "Putting someone down to make you feel good.

In 1930, I don't think that there was any thought of young people coming into the program, and there were not many women, and all the alcoholics were good old boys.

Don't know where that all came from, but guess it needed to be said.

Think this is a rerun but something I need to hear in today. Posted in 2013

Sometimes we want to change things, but AA has worked this long, why should I want to change it. It has to be me and my ego. That is my problem with meetings in today, I don't see the basics I was taught.

[majestyjo]

Topic for the day is Birds. It doesn't mean that the day is for the birds and not worthy, it means many good things, a lot depends on what bird speaks to you in today.

psychiclibrary.com/beyondBooks/bird-animal-totems

www.whats-your-sign.com/air-animal-totems.html



For me it has been the Eagle.

[majestyjo]

The Scripture Tree

When you don't know what you need, click on a flower and you will get a message and a bird will sing you a song.

thescripturetree.com/

God's Yellow Pages

When you know what you need, click on here, and you will get some scriptures to help you deal with your issues in the moment.  If you are not sure what it is you need, it may jog your memory or it may be a combination of several things.

www.divinepeace.com/yellow/Gods_Yellow_Pages.html

God Bless.

[majestyjo]

Do you own your life?

"The meaning of life is to give life meaning."

-- Ken Hudgins

When we own our lives, we accept what we've inherited and the experiences we hold in our memories. We also claim our right to create new conditions if we're not happy with what's come before. We assume responsibility for changing what does not suit us. We acknowledge our own special talents and skills, and truly comprehend our right to enjoy the journey. In short, we embrace the meaning and purpose, the mystery and the beauty of our lives.

Do you feel that you own your life at the moment?

"I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself... and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part."

-- Shirley MacLaine

"Life is too short to be little."

-- Benjamin Disraeli

"Every man dies, but not every man lives...."

-- Garth Brooks

Higher Awareness

For many years this was a big issue for me. Then I realized that I had to accept my limitations and my fibromyalgia and just try to be the best me I can be each day. To do what I can do and not wish the world away.

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.

Posted this at Recovery Inn in 2010, surprised the link still works

www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=13769

[majestyjo]

If you want to beat traffic. . .

Pick some fruit!!

Yesterday it took me an hour and fifteen minutes to go 10 miles.

I was frustrated.
I was powerless.
I was exhausted.
I was grateful.
I was victorious.
I was energized.

Heavy traffic volumes are a fact of life in any big city. Many of the local governments fund road improvement programs, only to close lanes as they improve the roads.

Lanes close, traffic increases, people get more frustrated and distracted, they have accidents, they cause more traffic pile-ups.

It's a vicious cycle.

It is often said that a person's first reaction in times of crisis tells a lot about that person. I say that a person's reaction while traveling six inches per minute tells even more about that person.

Sitting in traffic is one of the best times to pick some fruit.

Pick some patience. . .
You'll be able to relax. After all, you'll be sitting there for a while anyway.

Pick some peace. . .
Try something different --- instead of listening to the radio traffic reports about the traffic you're sitting in, turn the radio off. Play a classical CD.
Or better yet, just enjoy the quiet time.

Pick some kindness. . .
Smile at the person in the car next to you. Now that's really different!

Pick some love. . .
Start a conversation with your spouse or child about something you know is bothering them. Time spent driving can be time spent talking and understanding each other.

Pick some joy. . .
Be thankful that you're not the person involved in the calamity that's causing the traffic.

Pick some faith. . .
Take this time to look up at the sky, observe the trees, marvel at the birds. Think about your own life. Then you'll know for sure that there is a God.

Pick some gentleness. . .
I know you have a cell phone, so pick it up and call someone you haven't spoken to in months. You still remember the number.

Pick some goodness. . .
Plan a good deed that you'll do for someone as soon as you get out of the traffic. Maybe there's something you can do immediately to help the person on the side of the road.

Pick some meekness. . .
No matter what kind of car you're riding in, understand that it's not by your own works that you were able to obtain it.

Once you pick your fruit, your frustration, powerlessness, and exhaustion will transform into gratitude, victory and energy.

You'll have a new outlook on life all because you pulled over,
. . . and decided to pick some fruit.




~A Mountain Wings Original by C. Elijah Bronner~

[majestyjo]

MAKING CHOICES IS YOUR GREATEST POWER



While your character is formed by your circumstances, your desires can shape those circumstances.
The one thing over which you have absolute control is your own thoughts.
It is this that puts you in a position to control your own destiny.

Nature is constantly at work around you.
Character and destiny are her handiwork.
She gives you love and hate, jealousy and reverence.
You have the power to choose which impulse you follow.

At any time you can decide to alter the course of your life.
No one can ever take that away from you.
You can do what you want to do and be who you want to be.

Your greatest power is the power to choose.

Unknown

Originally posted on my site The Gathering Eagles

[majestyjo]

This may be a rerun, found it on an old site and probably already posted it here, but it spoke to me and too tired to search for more, going back to my bed. It looks like I took from my site to post at Recovery Inn in the first place.

I took a step and with new strength
I’d never felt before,
I kissed my Comfort Zone "goodbye"
And closed and locked the door.
I couldn’t let my life go by
Just watching others win.
I held my breath and stepped outside
And let the change begin.

I claimed to be so busy
With the things inside my zone,
But deep inside I longed for
Something special of my own.
I said it didn’t matter,
That I wasn’t doing much
I said I didn’t care for things
Like diamonds, furs and such.

I longed so much to do the things
I’d never done before,
But I stayed inside my Comfort Zone and
Paced the same old floor.
I used to have a Comfort Zone
Where I knew I couldn’t fail
The same four walls of busy work
Were really more like jail.

If you are in a Comfort Zone,
Afraid to venture out,
Remember that all winners were
At one time filled with doubt.
A step or two and words of praise,
Can make your dreams come true.
Greet your future with a smile,
Success is there for you!

- - Unknown



Had this or something similar on one of my sites. Have finally unearthed some of my books and found a poem on the same subject today when I was looking up a book called "I will lift up my eyes."

The piece I remember told me that if I was in a comfort zone, I was in a danger zone and that comfort could be a place of complacency.

Quote:
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere they can be quite alone with the heavens, nature, and God. Because only then does one feel that all is at it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. As long as this exists, and it certainly always will, I know that then there will always be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be.

- Anne Frank

[majestyjo]

I am an adult child of an alcoholic and an addict and have my codependent issues, and I am grateful that I went to AA first or I might have died in my disease. I went to AA to get sober and let go of my denial, went to NA for identification (always knew I was an addict), and went to AL-Anon to find myself, but that is where my issues were rooted.

Grateful that in today, I don't have to pick up, no matter what as long as I connect to my God, and have the honesty, open mindedness, and willingness I need to stay clean, just for today.

Wrote this a year ago, these are still true. I am given daily reprieve. I am still an addict. Just for today, I choose not to use.

I am truly blessed and I pass that blessing on to you.

[majestyjo]

Do we aspire to things or do we flub them off as not possible or do w take action, like say a prayer?

[majestyjo]

HUGS NOT DRUGS!



Bring soul into the world



"We live in a culture that is greatly biased against the imagination, because our culture is very materialistic, objective and literal. Our culture lacks soul, and doesn’t know it, although it experiences the consequences. When you don’t know what’s missing, then of course you don’t know what to bring in, even though you feel something is missing."

“We live in a world that needs more soul, more meaning. We, as conscious beings, have, as our primary responsibility, at this time in human history, the task of bringing soul into the world, or releasing soul into the world. We do this, first of all, in ourselves and in our own personal world; then we do it in our groups – including family; then we do it in our society through our work, relationships and presence there.”

- Higher Awareness

-- Andrew Schneider

From Higher Awareness

Never thought I would ever get to the stage where I could find peace and serenity.

[majestyjo]

I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day.

—Albert Camus

[majestyjo]

"God is not asking you to make a promise you cannot keep. God is asking you to believe a promise that only he can keep."

"God made you the way you are, so he wants you to be real when you talk to him. "

"Why should I praise God? Because it gets my focus off myself and onto God -- so I can talk to Him and not at him. "

Purpose Driven Life/Rick Warren

When you pray, give God your life
by Rick Warren

[majestyjo]

Never fear God is near. If he doesn't seem to be present, it is you who have gone away!

[majestyjo]

Bob and the Lord stood by to observe a baseball game. The Lord's team was playing Satan's team. The Lord's team was at bat, the score was tied zero to zero, and it was the bottom of the 9th inning with two outs.



They continued to watch as a batter stepped up to the plate whose name was Love. Love swung at the first pitch and hit a single, because Love never fails.



The next batter was named Faith, who also got a single because Faith works with Love. The next batter up was named Godly Wisdom. Satan wound up and threw the first pitch. Godly Wisdom looked it over and let it pass: Ball one.



Three more pitches and Godly Wisdom walked, because Godly Wisdom never swings at what Satan throws. The bases were now loaded. The Lord then turned to Bob and told him He was now going to bring in His star player. Up to the plate stepped Grace. Bob said, "He sure doesn't look like much!"



Satan's whole team relaxed when they saw Grace. Thinking he had won the game, Satan wound up and fired his first pitch. To the shock of everyone, Grace hit the ball harder than anyone had ever seen. But Satan was not worried; his center fielder let very few get by. He went up for the ball, but it went right through his glove, hit him on the head and sent him crashing on the ground; then it continued over the fence for a home run!



The Lord's team won! The Lord then asked Bob if he knew why Love, Faith, and Godly Wisdom could get on base but could not win the game. Bob answered that he did not know why.



The Lord explained, "If your love, faith, and wisdom had won the game you would think you had done it by yourself. Love, Faith and Wisdom will get you on base but only My Grace can get you Home.



Psalm 84:11, "For the Lord God is a sun and shield; the Lord will give grace and glory; no good thing will He withhold from those who walk uprightly."





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I thank them for giving us permission to use their material. They believe something good is to be shared and passed on to others. We thank them for their caring and sharing.

[majestyjo]

My Sweet Friend






~ A Friend Like You ~



There's lots of things

With which I'm blessed,

My problems have been few,

But of all, this one's the best-

To have a friend like you.



In times of trouble

Friends will say,

"Just ask, I'll help you through it."

But, you don't wait for me to ask,

You just get up and do it!



And I can think

of nothing more

That I could wisely do,

Than know a friend,

And be a friend,

And have a friend like you.



- Author Unknown

[majestyjo]

Think every morning when the sun peeps through
The dim, leaf-latticed windows of the grove,
How jubilant the happy birds renew
Their old melodious madrigals of love,
And when you think of this, remember too
'Tis always morning somewhere, and above
The awakening continents, from shore to shore,
Somewhere the birds are singing evermore.

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~

[majestyjo]

More to improve and fewer to disapprove
More doers and fewer talkers
More to say it can be done and fewer to say it's impossible
More to inspire others and fewer to throw cold water on them
More to get into the thick of things and fewer to sit on the side lines.
More to point out what's right and fewer to show what's wrong
More to light a candle and fewer the curse the darkness.

- Author Unknown

[majestyjo]

Want is a bitter and a hateful good,
Because its virtues are not understood;
Yet many things, impossible to thought,
Have been by need to full perfection brought.
The daring of the soul proceeds from thence,
Sharpness of wit, and active diligence;
Prudence at once, and fortitude is given;
And, if in patience taken, mends our lives.

These lines by John Dryden look at first rather grim. Yet in my life disappointments have turned out to be blessings in disguise. Often what I want is not at all the same as what I need.

Celia Haddon - The Yearbook of Love and Wisdom

Sorry if a lot of these are duplicates, with the volume of posts I make it is difficult to remember, plus I am having memory issues.

[majestyjo]

A young couple moves into a new neighborhood.
The next morning while they are eating breakfast, the young
woman sees her neighbor hanging the wash outside.
"That laundry is not very clean", she said.
"She doesn't know how to wash correctly.
Perhaps she needs better laundry soap."

Her husband looked on, but remained silent.

Every time her neighbor would hang her wash to dry, the
young woman would make the same comments.

About one month later, the woman was surprised to see a
nice clean wash on the line and said to her husband:
"Look, she has learned how to wash correctly.
I wonder who taught her this?"

The husband said, "I got up early this morning and
cleaned our windows."


And so it is with life. What we see when watching others
depends on the purity of the window through which we look.