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Post by bunnypie on Dec 3, 2015 4:22:06 GMT -5
Hi MP Kumawat----There is a song by a classic rocker name Tom Petty and he says "the waiting is the hardest part" I agree with him! It is difficult to wait. It is said in the program that things happen in God's time NOT my time.------Bunnypie
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Post by majestyjo on Dec 6, 2015 10:42:31 GMT -5
Today I was reminded of time and how much of it that I wasted it. I allowed my pain to rule my life. When I learned to apply the 12 Steps to dealing with my pain, it allowed me to be empowered to do what I needed to do for myself. I used to make time go away. In today, there are not enough hours in a day. What I don't always have is balance. I don't always have all the sleeping time I would like. I try to listen to my body, but then there are times that my body needs to be ignored. When I am on certain medications, the body manufactures the pain to say I want more. It says one is not enough, more is better. In today, I try to remember to breathe through the pain, let it go and let God lead and direct my life. Sometimes when I get caught up in it, I forget to breathe! It is like I want to be the martyr and hang onto it for some reason. Poor, poor me, pour me another one. I am so grateful that I have an ingrained tape that says, "To use is to die." Relapse is not an option. I am worthy of recovery.  |
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Post by majestyjo on Dec 21, 2015 22:15:48 GMT -5
AA Christmas Story
Uptight Before Christmas
(To the rhyme of Twas the Night Before Christmas)
Uptight before Christmas, all through these rooms alcoholics were stricken with holiday gloom.
They prayed, "Santa, please make us happy, joyous & free, bring us candy and presents and serenity."
Greed filled their minds and envy their hearts and someone said, "It's time for the meeting to start!"
"Does anyone have a topic for discussion tonight?" Every face in the place turned wintery white!
They lost all self-seeking, self-pity and self-will when down through the chimney came the ghost of St. Bill!
He chuckled and said as he sat himself down "Call the White House and tell 'em there's a new Dubya in town."
Then he looked through a big book and said with a tear, "Wow! No one rewrote this after all these years! "
Clean house, help your neighbor, be loving and kind, and don't take the first drink one day at a time."
"How could a message as simple as this be realized, analyzed and intellectually dismissed?"
There lies the reason this ghost has arrived: to re-give a gift that has saved all your lives!
Then he set up a big screen and a DVD so every lost soul in the meeting could see.
He played a movie of drunks at their best and their worst, what is and what was when blessed and cursed.
There were scenes of a housewife passed out at a bar, a respectable businessman wrecking his car,
a fight in a kitchen, a fight in bed, a fight at a reception between newlyweds.
An empty bottle, a desperate man alone in a motel with a gun in his hands.
He puts down the gun and picks up the phone and whimpers and blubbers, "Honey, let me come home."
She hangs up as she tells him, "Don't call here anymore." He reaches for the phone book and falls to the floor.
Somehow that phone book seems to capture his gaze: it's open to a number under the A's.
Then all of the people in the movie converged on the poor side of town in the basement of a church.
Driven together in a willing herd to hear of hope and deliver the word.
The ghost of Bill W. turned off the TV and said, "The first word of the first step is 'we'.
I suggest you start there and see where you go. Be thorough and fearless, and please-take it slow!
Let faith set the tone, let love make the mood 'and as for a topic... how about gratitude?'
Just don't drink, go to meetings and pray and be glad you're alive and sober today.
Be a good woman, be a good man and be of service whenever you can.
Be a good mother, be a good dad and try to be good to your kids when they're bad.
Be a good husband, be a good wife....... Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good life!"
Received with thanks from my friend Brenda
Christmas is so commercialized, we need to remember the reason for the season. Is putting ourselves in dept a spiritual act. The simple things in life that come from the heart have much more worth and have greater value.
The same with Thanksgiving, it is my honest opinion, it should be an all year celebration.
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Post by majestyjo on Dec 28, 2015 3:29:29 GMT -5
 Around The Corner So often we go through life living from day to day with our own agendas and priorities. We often have good intentions of calling on old friends, or for that matter, making new ones. The poem below reminds us of the trap of procrastination, and that time, while it seems to pass slowly, really is passing us by much quicker than we can imagine. Around the corner I have a friend, In this great city that has no end. Yet days go by and weeks rush on, And before I know it a year is gone, And I never see my old friend’s face; For life is a swift and terrible race. He knows I like him just as well As in the days when I rang his bell And he rang mine. We were younger then... And now we are busy, tired men... Tired with playing a foolish game; Tired with trying to make a name. “Tomorrow,” I say, “I will call on Jim, “Just to show that I’m thinking of him.” But tomorrow comes—and tomorrow goes; And the distance between us grows and grows. Around the corner! -- yet miles away... “Here’s a telegram, Sir.” “Jim died today.” And that’s what we get—and deserve in the end -- Around the corner; a vanished friend. -- Henson Towne See: Prov 17:17; Prov 18:24; Prov 27:10 Courtesy of “A Dose of Inspiration |
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Post by majestyjo on Jan 22, 2016 17:03:08 GMT -5
Look at the whole picture, what do you see?
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Post by majestyjo on Jul 29, 2016 17:41:14 GMT -5
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Post by majestyjo on Jul 29, 2016 18:26:17 GMT -5
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Post by majestyjo on Jul 29, 2016 18:31:03 GMT -5
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Post by majestyjo on Sept 17, 2016 19:06:31 GMT -5
“Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.” –Kahlil Gibran  |
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Post by majestyjo on Sept 17, 2016 19:11:51 GMT -5
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Post by majestyjo on Sept 17, 2016 19:12:40 GMT -5
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Post by majestyjo on Sept 28, 2016 5:48:30 GMT -5
Opinions, ass they say, "Every one has one." It is alright to express your opinion. Was is important is expressing it in an appropriate way. You don't have to agree. you can agree to disagree. I was told in recovery, there wasn't a right way or a wrong way, as long as you stayed sober. If I relapse, then I would have to open my mind a little bit more as to what I need in order to recover from that hopeless state of mind and body. I can't be someone else's Higher Power. My service sponsor said many years ago, "I don't care who or what your Higher Power is as long as it is NOT you. That was just her opinion, but in fact, it was true. Sometimes opinions are best left unsaid. Sometimes they speak for themselves, while other times, they may speak volumes, but carry a message that is confusing and contradictory. Sometimes they need to be explained and the perception is not always the same for others. If you haven't experienced it, how can you know it. As this guy I met in early recovery use to say before he shared, "Keep an open mind, this is just my opinion." Unfortunately he relapsed at 22 years sober and thankfully, he lived to make it back to the rooms of recovery. That's my opinion and I am sticking to it, just for today.  |
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Post by majestyjo on Apr 8, 2018 22:08:34 GMT -5
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Post by caressa222 on Jul 9, 2018 11:38:04 GMT -5
Tell your loved ones that they are loved. One of the greatest days of my life was the day my Aunt Marion came up to me and said, "I want one of your hugs."  |
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Post by caressa222 on Mar 5, 2019 2:58:41 GMT -5
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Post by majestyjo on Nov 10, 2020 22:27:52 GMT -5
Mixed baggage. sorry, some links don't work.
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. I will be back looking for Lin and others.