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lani


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The website Scott referred me to: 24 hrs a day, has some additional readings on it...Check it out if you can.....

Sunday, March 16, 2008

You are reading from the book Each Day a New Beginning

True intimacy with another human being can only be experienced when you have found true peace within yourself.
--Angela L. Wozniak

Intimacy means disclosure--full expression of ourselves to another person. Nothing held back. All bared. There are risks, of course: rejection, criticism, perhaps ridicule. But the comfort we feel within is directly proportional to the peace we've come to know.

Each day we commit ourselves to recovery, we find a little more peace. Each conversation we have with our higher power brings us a little more security. Each time we turn our full attention to another person's needs, we feel our own burdens lightened.

Peace comes in stages. As we continue to accept our powerlessness, the depth of our peace increases. Turning more often to a power greater than ourselves eases our resistance to whatever condition prevails. Forgiving ourselves and others, daily, heightens our appreciation of all life and enhances our humility. Therein lies peace.

We each are a necessary part of the creative spirit prevailing in this world. The details of our lives are well in hand. We can be at peace. Who we are is who we need to be.

Intimacy lets me help someone else also live a full and peace-filled life. I will reach out to someone today.





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This is wonderful, Lani. Will either of you be continuing in adding them to MIP each day? I'd like to resume the hazelden24hrs if no one minds. It feels timely for me to pick them back up again & seeing that they haven't been adopted as regularly yet! Thanks to you & Scott for taking care of them while I meandered. Settling into today's offering felt like a coming home & brought me such peace & gratitude. I hope it's ok for me to carry on (until my next rebellious tweak!) AA is so kind & forbearing in its way & it's the kind of song I need singing back to me when I've forgotten. That's why I need recovery. If I wasn't growing I'd be dying & for me, with the heavy heart I can have, disappointment could get harder to handle. Hence my staying away from a drink 1Day@aTime. Hence my coming back to keep me strong. Hence my developing my Higher Power because inside, on a dark day, I know I'm not enough. When I have all these healing components in my life, I know I don't have to be cuz in a way, I am. God bless these teachings. I feel peace & serenity. Today. Thanks to you all for being here, Danielle x

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Hey Danielle:
I have no problem with you taking on 24/hr day! Im sure Scott will be heartbroken when he comes back! heehee Thank you all for the opportunity to share a few days of 24....I discovered some new parts to that book that I wouldnt mind sharing so we'll see how that goes!

Thanks for coming back!!! Your contributions were sorely missed!!!!

Have a great day!!
Lani

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