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I am willing to trust. I know that to the degree I am willing to give up my search for a healthy love relationship, I can have it. I know I can have whatever I am ready and willing to receive. Individual receptivity is everything. Without it, nothing changes. With it, all things are possible. I no longer insist upon my choice.

I know that the only thing I lose when I let go of something I am afraid to live without is the fear itself. I am stronger than anything that frightens me!

I let go of the past, and I am free to think clearly and positively in the present. I am not my past.

Letting go is the natural release which always follows the realization that holding on is an energy drain and it hurts. Letting go happens effortlessly when there is no other choice. Letting go does not mean giving up.

Note. . . A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth -- with the fire dead, the laughter stilled, and the light extinguished. - Frank P. Tebbetts

Letting go is a journey that never ends. Never. It only begins -- over and over again -- each time I can glimpse something higher than my own painful certainty over who I think I am. There is always something higher; a life beyond the limits of my present sight.

To see what is farther I must be willing to lift my eyes from their present point of focus. Release always follows revelation and real revelation is always a glimpse of something that was only just out of sight.

I know that stress in my love relationship exists because I insist! What I resist, persists. I am tied to whatever I avoid.

Note. . . The heart loves, but moods have no loyalty. Moods should be heard but never danced to. - Hugh Prather


It is a mistaken belief that I must push my love relationship in the direction I choose that keeps me in a strained and unhappy relationship with it. Reality has its own effortless course, and I can either embrace its way or struggle endlessly with mine.

I do not need power to flow.

I let go of that part of myself that is certain it is better to suffer and feel like someone than it is to just let go and quietly be no one. I give birth to a new me that never has to hold on to anything because it is already everything.

I dare to walk away from all of the familiar but useless mental and emotional relationships that give me a temporary but unsatisfactory sense of self. My true identity is calling me and to hear it I must be willing to endure, for as long as necessary, the fear of self-uncertainty.

This form of seeming self-abandonment eventually turns into my greatest pleasure as it becomes increasingly evident that the only thing certain about fear is that it will always compromise me. When it comes to who I really am, there is no compromise.

Let go of the past. The past is yesterday. It is irretrievable. When you relate to the past, you relate to no one or any thing. You are literally talking to yourself. No one else is listening. You have already heard all you have to say about that, so, let go.

A Course in Miracles says, "You cannot really not let go what has already gone. It must be, therefore, that you are maintaining the illusion that it has not gone because you think it serves some purpose that you want fulfilled."

It is certifiable insanity to conjure up your own reality based on the past and relate to it, rather than to relate to the present which is the only reality.

Note. . . Relationships are part of a vast plan for our enlightenment, the Holy Spirit's blueprint by which each individual soul is led to greater awareness and expanded love. Relationships are the Holy Spirit's laboratories in which he brings together people who have the maximal opportunity for mutual growth. - Marianne Williamson


I say goodbye to the past and hello to the present.

I am enthusiastic about who I am becoming! I know that no one sincerely asks for a new life until they are thoroughly dissatisfied with the old one. I am and I let go. When I allow myself to let go of what is old, I stay true to what is new.

I believe that as with all insight, higher understanding itself contains not only the instructions I must follow, but the strength I will need to carry them out.

Starting life over again is the key to a new me. I see the beauty and significance of starting over - over and over and over. Every present moment is always new and new is always right now! The new dies to the ever-new in an endless celebration of Life.

This is it!

I live in the present. I never let the past dictate the direction of the present moment. I give my best to my endeavors.

What lies ahead for me can only be good.

True peace and harmony are a part of who I am.

I have come to the realization that what is possible for me to become only truly changes when I am willing to see what is impossible for me to continue being.

My true nature is already fully independent and flying freely.

I let go and let God. And so it is.

 



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thanks so much phil.....this is where  i am at......DECIDING to trust....being WILLING to let go !!  even my needs/ wants....do what i can....pray as it is done..........let go let God.........hard, but a must.......see ya, rosie

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Yes its hard Rosie..... Its damned hard.... Ive lost people, out of my life, from the past--that I still kick my butt over, and beat myself up, over.  And as much as I always want to go to the other side of the street, with blame....I hafta look in the mirror, at my side of it---and there are a lot of times..when I look in that mirror...even with the good parts... I know that there are a lot of things I hafta work on and let go off.


Those parts that one hafta let go of--I resist. I want to fix them, and try to make them better... but when there is more than yourself involved...you cannot make choices for others.


I have many regrets...even in sobriety. I deal with guilt, from reacting to people and things in yesterdays, and have one hell of a time, forgiving myself for that.There are a lot of things that I still beat myself up over because I could have...and should have done better..even tho I know it takes 2 to make it...and 2 to break it.


Some of us ...and Ile speak for myself...are our own worst enemies. Ive put mouth in gear in the past..before brain...Ive reacted over things..before thinking...Ive hurt others, and destroyed good relationships because of it.


Feel good about myself, some days?  Not very.


We carry on..and try to do better, and try do our best..through the program, one day at a time.


I can get into the pits of depression, some days, where I wonder if there is any hope..and combine that with health issues...well..we arent going there.


Back into the steps, and Let Go and Let God. You have a good night.



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Some days its easier to look at the negative list...instead of the positive list...and the.. being grateful list.


Easier softer ways, I guess.  and there are none. The biggest problem I have in sobriety, is forgiving myself.



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