Tuesday, September 20, 2005 Always in you You cannot hold on to any moment, for as soon as you know it is here it will be gone. What you can do, though, is to live each moment fully so its value will always be with you.
You cannot bring back the fondly remembered circumstances of the past. Yet what you can do is take the joy from those times still living in your heart and express it again and again in new and creative ways.
Though life is constantly and relentlessly changing, the true goodness you experience is never left behind. The more fully and authentically you live each moment, the more your life will be filled with value that you cannot lose.
The joys you have gathered were not the result of any particular circumstance. They came to you because you opened yourself up to life's goodness, and they are still with you even though many things may have changed.
Though you cannot hold on to this beautiful moment, there really is no reason to do so. For when you see, appreciate and fully experience its beauty, that beauty, that joy will always be in you.
Let go of the need to cling to any fleeting thing or circumstance. And make room for joy to grow in your life with each passing moment.
-- Ralph Marston
Today is September 20, 2005 A Great Day for Recovery!
SHARING
"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation." -- Henry David Thoreau
I thought that I was the only one who felt like I did. Nobody could possibly understand. I was different from everybody and needed to keep my life -- my true life -- a secret. I was living a life of quiet desperation! Then I went to a meeting for recovering alcoholics and heard somebody share my pain, my loneliness, my confusion, my addiction -- my life.
I was lonely because I kept myself separate from people. I saw them as being different from myself, and so I remained the lonely and isolated victim. Strange how similar we are when we begin to share. When we get beneath culture, class and creed, we discover sensitive human beings trying to make sense of their lives. We need each other.
May I risk rejection in my spiritual need to share and be known
I have an Aunt who always took her time in everyting she does.
In her 50's she had the most loving, well organized day care center in her home.
I used to go nuts visting her with all those kids. She was in heaven taking care of them. My Aunt has 2 natural children and adopted 3 children.
Watching her do a simple thing like folding laundry was calming for me. She seemed to take care with every single article she folded.
She always said every morning when she woke up...Before getting out of bed she would "Thank God for another day".
She told me she said she said this every morning as long as she can remember.
Today I am trying to apply her way of thinking to my life.
When I am hastly doing something...such as laundry, slowing myself down , has given me the oppurtunity to hopefully experience what my aunt has all these years.
Putting a little love into a chore makes it not seem a chore afterall.
Take Care
Nancy Jo
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Life is full of ups and downs
But the faces of love will
ease the pain and suffering
from:My Mother
