Post by majestyjo on Oct 20, 2017 21:03:08 GMT -5
October 20
Walk In Dry Places
This too shall pass
Acceptance
When personal problems are brought up in group discussions, someone usually remembers the saying, "This too shall pass." We use it in reference to unpleasant matters, but it also applies to happier experiences. It is a certainty that nothing will ever stay the same.
Our responsibility to ourselves is to see all situations constructively, whether they are seen as good or bad at the time. WHat seems a disappoint today might be seen as a blessing tomorrow. And we can't always be sure that today's wonderful opportunity doesn't have a few hidden nettles in it.
The one certainty is that everything will pass. We should extract the good from everything, and let what is unpleasant fade into the past.
Whatever I'm facing today will certainly change as I do my best in the 24 hours ahead. None of us is permanently bound to any problem.
Walk In Dry Places
This too shall pass
Acceptance
When personal problems are brought up in group discussions, someone usually remembers the saying, "This too shall pass." We use it in reference to unpleasant matters, but it also applies to happier experiences. It is a certainty that nothing will ever stay the same.
Our responsibility to ourselves is to see all situations constructively, whether they are seen as good or bad at the time. WHat seems a disappoint today might be seen as a blessing tomorrow. And we can't always be sure that today's wonderful opportunity doesn't have a few hidden nettles in it.
The one certainty is that everything will pass. We should extract the good from everything, and let what is unpleasant fade into the past.
Whatever I'm facing today will certainly change as I do my best in the 24 hours ahead. None of us is permanently bound to any problem.
I went home to care for my father, and I became his drinking buddy. I ended up with my own disease, and had to stop focusing on him, the alcoholic, and look at myself. When I did that, I saw that he was a falling down drunk, who may have been an alcoholic if he chose to call himself one. Never heard him speak those words and he called me a kook. When I looked at myself, I saw that I had the thinking behind the drinking. I qualified to be an alcoholic. It doesn't matter how much you drink, it is what it does to you when you do drink it.
. I will be back looking for Lin and others.