"Who are you to say there is no God? This challenge comes to all of us. Are we capable of denying that there is a design and purpose in all of life as we know it? Or are we willing to admit that faith in some kind of Divine Principle is a part of our make-up, just as much as the feeling we have for a friend? We find a great Reality deep down within us, if we face ourselves as we really are. In the last analysis, it is only there that God may be found. When we find this Reality within us, we are restored to our right minds." Have I found the great Reality?
Meditation for the Day ~
"Behold, I make all things new." When you change to a new way of life, you leave many things behind you. It is only the earth-bound spirit that cannot soar. Loosen somewhat the strands that tie you to the earth. It is only the earthly desires that bind you. Your new freedom will depend on your ability to rise above earthly things. Clipped wings can grow again. Broken wings can regain a strength and beauty unknown before. If you will, you can be released and free.
Prayer for the Day ~
I pray that I may be freed from things that hold me down. I pray that my spirit may soar in freedom.
Hazelden
(Let it be a God or Higher Power of your own understanding)
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Progress not perfection.. & Practice makes Progress!
Heard a cool thing at a meeting this week....The hardest part is trying to forgive yourself...
"If God can forgive us, who are we to think we are greater than God not to forgive ourselves!"
The past is the past and as hard as it is to let go of all the bad things in our past, we have to let it go, trust we are forgiven, try not to make the same mistakes, and MOVE ON!
Dwelling on the past can really bogg us down. We are not that person anymore! We have changed, our "wings" have grown back, larger and stronger!
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"We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have. "
