This reminds me it is one day at a time. This too shall pass, be it good or the not so good things in our life. Live each day to it's fullest. We are given a second chance at life, enjoy it, be grateful and show it.

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Found this on my site Soundness of Mind. It is probably posted here on the site somewhere, but it is a good thought in today. Originally posted in 2011.

While a man was polishing his new car, his 4 yr old son picked up a stone and scratched lines on the side of the car. In anger, the man took the child's hand and hit it many times; not realizing he was using a wrench.

At the hospital, the child lost all his fingers due to multiple
fractures. When the child saw his father.....with painful eyes he asked, `Dad when will my fingers grow back?' The man was so hurt and speechless; he went back to his car and kicked it a lot of times.

Devastated by his own actions..... . .sitting in front of that car he
looked at the scratches; the child had written `LOVE YOU DAD'.
The next day that man committed suicide. . .

Anger and Love have no limits; choose the latter to have a beautiful, lovely life..... Things are to be used and people are to be loved, But the problem in today's world is that, People are used and things are loved.... During this year, let's be careful to keep this thought in mind: Things are to be used, but People are to be loved ... Be yourself.... . This is the only day we HAVE.

Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits they become character;
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

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Walk through life with a caring heart,
You'll always find someone in need;
Go out of your way to help,
And you will be blessed by the deed.

For all life's blessings are born,
From a heart that's filled with love,
And all your good acts are seen
By the eyes of God above.

So as you travel through life
Always find some time to spare,
To give someone a helping hand,
With a heart that is full of care.

Received with thanks from my friend Bette

A Time To Believe



To believe is to know that
every day is a new beginning.
It is to trust that miracles happen,
and dreams really do come true.

To believe is to see angels
dancing among the clouds,
To know the wonder of a stardust sky
and the wisdom of the man in the moon.

To believe is to know the value of a nurturing heart,
The innocence of a child's eyes
and the beauty of an aging hand,
for it is through their teachings we learn to love.

To believe is to find the strength
and courage that lies within us
When it is time to pick up
the pieces and begin again.

To believe is to know
we are not alone,
That life is a gift
and this is our time to cherish it.

To believe is to know
that wonderful surprises are just
waiting to happen,
And all our hopes and dreams are within reach.

If only we believe.

~ Author Unknown to me ~

Dealing With Frustrations

For me it is the Serenity Prayer (it won't wear out), talking about it and trying to let it go. My sponsor always told me to inventory my side of the street, clean it, and change what is my to own and let go of what isn't. As you say SunnyGirl, it is freedom of choice. Most times it is good to detach myself from things, like going downtown or going to bridge, it never solved anything but sitting and looking at four walls. If I get tired of being on the internet and reading, I can always go downstairs to sit in the community room. Sometimes belong along with me is not being in good company and I need to get out of the self by helping others or being with others. If I isolate, I isolate the problem and sometimes my thinking can blow it out of proportion and that is why it is good for me to pick up the phone and call my sponsor, a friend, and/or my sister.

I will also do a meditation with my cards, and work with stones on crystals, or use my books on the cards and stone. In order to use them, I need to say the Serenity Prayer, quiet my mind, and ask for help and they give me direction and guidance and they calm me down so I can go within to find my own truth. Over the years, I have learned that I don't need them to do that to get there, but they were a tool to show me the way and now when I just don't know or am in too much pain and overwhelmed, they bring me back to where I need to be. I don't have the money to invest in all the stones, so the cards work for me.

In my book Osho Transformation they say the following:

Worry for me is another word for frustration

Have you ever taken note of one thing?- the present is always juicy, the present is always blissful. Worry and suffering are created either by what you wanted to do in the past and could not do, or by what you want to do in the future and don't know whether you will be able to do or not. Did you ever notice, did you every look at this small truth, that there is no suffering in the present, there is no worry? This is is why the present does not distrube the mind-anxiety disturbs the mind. There is no suffering in the present. The present doesn't know suffering-the present is such a small moment that suffering cannot fit into it. In the present only heaven can fit, not hell. Hell is too big! The present can only be peace, can only be happiness.

This has always given me help to staying in the moment. My sponsor always use to say she had three seconds because she was narcoleptic (a sleeping disorder and she would have seisures on the bus or where ever she sat down and people would think she was sleeping not realizing that she needed to be woke up).

What ever you call it frustration, worry, stress, anxiety, anger, it all boils down to emotion and it is about dealing with them in a way that is good for us.

Anger (What frustration can build into!

Next time you feel angry, go and run around the house seven times, and afterwards sit under a tree and watch where the anger has gone. You have not repressed it, you have not controlled it, you have not thrown it on somebody else....

Anger is just a mental vomit. There is just no need to throw it on somebody. Do a little jogging, or take a pillow and beat the pillow until your hands and teeth are relaxed.

In transformation you never control, you simply become more aware. Anger is happening-it is a beautiful phenomenon, it is just like electricity in the clouds....

My counsellor had me do the pillow thing. I never really felt the anger and yet it was there buried very deep. What I didn't know was that it was okay to have these feeling and I tended to exaggerate them because they were unknown to me. I find I can still go into those old habits that allow me to stuff instead of letting them go because the role is familiar and seems to be the much easier softer way and we know that doesn't work in the long run.

Being powerless is why I need acceptance, surrender and honesty to take Step One and it is an on going process for me my friend. I am just happy that people come by. It is my goal to make sure there is something here for them to read. Not just my two cents, my perception of a topic, but words of wisdom and hence one of my reasons for wanting to post cut and paste. I am not a guru and I have not come to the understanding that those of us who post here are either. I tried stopping playing God with my life and that of others a long time ago. She probably noticed that it hasn't changed much and that the same complaint that made her make the decision to leave is still alive and well on the site. I really miss her and her input into the site. Perhaps she will come back again, at least she signed in and let us know she was here and not just come visit.

I am not powerless over changing myself. I prefer to think of it as personal empowerment. I need the willingness to surrender, ask for help, and follow up the thought with action. Thought alone never got me any where.

My son considers me wrong period! I have to chuckle when he says things like: "You didn't teach me to cook mom, I just watched you." He won't let me in the kitchen when he is concocting. If I go in and give my two cents he leaves.

He is just not open to hearing anything especially anything about recovery.

I have cut back on what I add to the site and just try to respond and share with topics posted like ABCs, Chips, HAGD, and a share by another member.

It was good to see a few members sign in. It is good to see visitors. People coming by and not participating has been a long time issue here. I think some people don't feel comfortable and think their posts have to be just so, they don't know how to add pictures, they don't have the words to say what they want to say, some don't know how to navigate the board, and the list goes on.

I would like to encourage everyone, there is no right way or wrong way to share. Whether your words are many or few, it is nice to know that you are here and identify with what is posted here. We would like your likes and dislikes. What do you want to read when you visit us. We share because we care. Please keep coming.

Don't like think of myself as the power. I am powerless, except through my Higher Power. Only through my God, and this program was I able to change, not of myself.

It took acceptance of the fact that I had a problem. Acceptance that the program would work for me, and acceptance of the fact that I needed to work it one day at a time.

Acceptance is the key. Yet I can still fight it in today, even though I have been in recovery for several 24 hours. When I do, I stay stuck. I know the solution, and I often have to pray for the willingness to be willing to be willing.

If I am frustrated, it is because I am not accepting and I have put expectations on myself or projected them onto someone else. Things aren't happening in my time and I am back trying to play 'god' with my life or that of someone else's. There are many things, lack of patience, intolerance, and a lot of other defects of character that can get in the way, which need a time out and a prayer to before they become an action instead of a thought.

From a post on another site in 2009 and 2015.

No one can make me angry if I don't allow them to. These are words I said to a friend this morning.

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A gift that was shared with me in 2004

Will always be grateful for this person. She makes me think of the piece of prose "A Reason, A Season, A Lifetime."

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Down with the letter "I"
I say, Up with the letter "U",
Down with the phrase "Let's not bother",
And up with the phrase "Let's do!"

- Anne Kreer

Once heard someone say, "You may use my God in the moment." You need to find your own God, because I need mine.

Go on a spiritual journey to find out Who your God is to you. A woman use to spell God as G-d, because to her, He/She was all encompassing. I like the concept. Fill in the blank.

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