|
Post by bunnypie on Apr 24, 2016 23:50:09 GMT -5
Hey Jo---There is an excellent quote by Woody Allen "Most of your life is none of your business" Sad but True!!!!---Bunnypie
|
|
|
Post by majestyjo on Apr 25, 2016 19:05:16 GMT -5
Just for today, I will practice my acceptance again. If my prescription isn't into the pharmacy by noon tomorrow, I will get on the phone and call my doctor's office. My specialist said, "We don't want you having a stroke." I said, "I don't want me having a stroke either."
|
|
|
Post by bunnypie on Apr 26, 2016 21:38:22 GMT -5
Hey Jo---It is good that everyone is in agreement!!! I don't want you to have a stroke either! That makes it unanimous!!!---Bunnypie
|
|
|
Post by majestyjo on Apr 29, 2016 15:38:29 GMT -5
Just for today, I will ask for forgiveness. My computer has been sick and I have been busy with test, appointmens and grocery shopping. I needed forgive myself and ask for forgiveness for not being able to be here for everyone.
|
|
|
Post by bunnypie on Apr 29, 2016 19:58:25 GMT -5
I love the line Forgiveness is giving up all hope for a better past! I can't change the past I can only move on.....Bunnypie
|
|
|
Post by majestyjo on Apr 30, 2016 6:59:26 GMT -5
Just for today, I will be open to transformation and change. When I put a block on negative energies, I also block the positive energies from coming in. I need to be open in order to receive and allow myself to be vulnerable.
|
|
|
Post by bunnypie on Apr 30, 2016 7:44:04 GMT -5
It sounds like you are talking about the first line in the 3rd Step Prayer "God I offer myself to thee to build with me and to do with me as thou wilt."
|
|
|
Post by majestyjo on May 2, 2016 11:39:30 GMT -5
Just for today, I will pray and ask for the right words and actions to take and not allow my feelings and my actions project onto another. I will let go of my anger and resentment, and come from a recovery place instead of acting out in my dis-ease.
|
|
|
Post by bunnypie on May 2, 2016 19:43:19 GMT -5
Hey Jo!!!---Got a double frog on that one! Frog=feel/find reliance on God!!! I have been trying to turn it all over to God but sickness & self pity have me take it back. Turn it over/take it back......Baffled Bunnypie
|
|
|
Post by majestyjo on May 3, 2016 9:58:32 GMT -5
May I suggest you come to the site when you are hurting and go back and read some old posts. I pick at random and go to all fellowships, 12 Steps are 12 Steps. Maybe you will find something that you need for yourself. I like Fully Relying On God. Even when I get the self-reliance card, I know that it is only through my God, that I get the personal empowerment that I need to find the courage, strength, and direction I need.
|
|
|
Post by majestyjo on May 3, 2016 10:03:19 GMT -5
Just for today, I will have a new freedom and a new happiness. This is my only day without an appointment today. I have been debating whether to stay at home and rest or take myself to a meeting. I haven't had much sleep, so do I take care of the body or the soul. I am free to make a decision, so I guess I will end up doing what brings me happiness and joy. I will see if my bed calls me before it is time to leave to go to the meeting. When I did my morning meditation today, I got the Eagle twice. The Eagle means Spirit in Jamie Sams' Medicine Book on animals. Attachments:
|
|
|
Post by bunnypie on May 3, 2016 11:45:51 GMT -5
Thanks Jo!---The spirit and the body are having a tug-o-war with me!!! I am crawling from bed to bathroom to computer. They are all within 20 feet of each other. I have the window open. It is a sunshiney spring day. It feels good to get a sniff of fresh air. I haven't been to a meeting in almost a week and it is making me weak spiritually. If you do make the meeting please let me know how it was. LOL a 2nd hand meeting is better then nothing!!! Thanks for talking to me. I feel so d**n isolated. Bummed Out Bunnypie
|
|
|
Post by majestyjo on May 4, 2016 18:21:59 GMT -5
Our meeting today was on the 11th Tradition in Al-Anon, attraction rather than promotion.
|
|
|
Post by majestyjo on May 4, 2016 18:27:12 GMT -5
Just for today, I will accept what is, rather than what I would have it be in today. I was busy, busy, busy today and really hurting tonight, so need to get off my computer and if need be, go to my bed. I am having chest pains, and that is not good. I was sharing with a friend today. People look at me and don't see anything wrong and as they say, "They judge a book by it's cover." The outside may look good, but the inside has it's own agenda. I get bus drivers who are disrespectful to me because I have a walker. I get the impression that they think I am using it for a free ride. As if, it took me a year to get my pride and ego out of the way, and accept the fact that I needed it. Attachments:
|
|
|
Post by bunnypie on May 4, 2016 21:08:57 GMT -5
Hey JO---I remember a 12th step call I made with another woman to the home of a woman who was drunk & hung over. She wanted to hear about AA and getting sober but kept saying "Don't Recruit Me" It really is a program of attraction not promotion! I can't stuff it down anybody's throat!!! LOL I was thinking of the comedy clip from the tv show Sat. Nite Live. There was Billy Crystal saying you might feel like sh*t but you look marvelous!!! He would go on to say it is better to look marvelous then to feel marvelous!!! it was really funny stuff!!!-------Bunnypie
|
|
|
Post by majestyjo on May 5, 2016 10:17:49 GMT -5
Just for today, I will stand in my truth, until such a time as my God shows me a different path. I am so grateful for the people who have been put in my path over the years, who have shown me how to work my program and how NOT to work my program.
Today I am looking forward to going to my group, leaving in 15 min.
|
|
|
Post by bunnypie on May 5, 2016 11:37:22 GMT -5
YES! How it works & How it doesn't work is a real good concept! YOU are very fortunate to be experiencing one of the promises on Page 83-84 of the Big Book. "We will know a new freedom & a new happiness" The freedom of being able to physically go to a meeting and the happiness of looking forward to it...... Being deathly sick and not being able to go to a meeting in over a week has made me weak!!!-------Bunnypie
|
|
|
Post by majestyjo on May 5, 2016 18:26:29 GMT -5
The Promises have all come true for me, in some ways, many times over. All I wanted was that first promises, it is what kept me coming back.
It was a good meeting. I got to see a guy that I haven't seen for at least 15 years.
|
|
|
Post by bunnypie on May 5, 2016 21:04:56 GMT -5
YES! I believe the Promises are the reward we get for working a good program. We have to be pain staking about that phase of our development! I have had the promises come true for me at various times of my sobriety and YES it has kept me coming back--Bunnypie
|
|
|
Post by majestyjo on May 6, 2016 15:15:01 GMT -5
Just for today, I pray for the willingness to be willing to do what I need for my health and well being. I have had three really heavy duty days and I am a hurting unit tonight. I am glad I have leftover rice to cook up. When I finish posting, I have to drain my cottage roll and put fresh water on it. By par-boiling it, it removes a lot of the salt, which I am not suppose to have. It has so much more flavour than regular ham. I am praying that I am not too fatigued to lift the pot and drain it. It will be a challenge. Thankfully, I have 3 tapings of the ATP tennis tournament from Madrid to watch tonight.
|
|