Just for today, I will get out of self and help someone else. Don't know what that will be today, but I will be open to giving to another. So far today, I talked to my sister and listened to her. She is still not well, but has been putting off going to the doctor's because she is putting her life on hold, waiting for others.

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Just for today, I will practice patience. My cards even told me to be patient in my meditation last night. What I need to do is be patient with myself. I don't have as much trouble with being patient with others, although there are a few people that tend to streth my limits, like my friend last night. She called me two nights in a row with the same story, and I finally had to excuse myself. So much anger, not directed at me, but looking to me for her answers.

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Just for today, I will accept what is in the moment, knowing it is subject to change.

Accepting where I am at in my program, in my life, and in my relationship with others. The Medicine Wheel is a circle depicting life's cycles. Everything begins in the east, and as we go through life's lessons and experiences, we have to heal the child within and we take baby steps, until we can find our way. When we get to the west, we walk our talk to the best of our ability. We learn to apply what we have learned to our life, it is one thing to know, it isn't always so easy to do. Then as the cycle moves to the north, we have learned and found our truth and we share it with others. Between the north and the east, I call the state of being. The door may have closed on the past but a new door or window hasn't opened yet and I am waiting for the Good Orderly Direction I need in order to move forward and grow in my program, ever mindful that I have to apply the program to my mental, emotional, spiritual, and physical well being.

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Just for today, I am asking for some Good Orderly Direction, to sort some papers and things that are stored. Much of it hasn't been used in the last year, yet I have a fear that the time I throw something away, I might need it. It isn't much, because I have got rid of a lot of things, especially clothes. The stuff I am referring to falls under the heading, "Junk Drawer." The only problem, there is more than one.

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Just for today, I will let go and let God. I lay in bed hurting this morning, the pain in my ankles woke me up. It hurt to move. I said a prayer turning my day over to my God, and the pain eased and I was able to get out of bed. The pain is there but not like it was and certainly bearable.

I will let the day unfold as it should and try not to get in my God's Way and His Plan for my life.

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Just for today, I will reach out to my God and ask for help. The last two days have been ones of pain and I need to accept and process it as to whether it is in reality mental, emotional, and/or physical. Today was a day of rest. I feel guilty when that happens, even though I got some dishes done, went down to the mall and got money on my laundry cards and picked up my Blister Pack with my weekly medications.

I don't like it when I can't concentrate enough to read. As a result, I watched TV when my pain wouldn't let me sleep.

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Just for today, I will reach out to my God and ask for help. The last two days have been ones of pain and I need to accept and process it as to whether it is in reality mental, emotional, and/or physical. Today was a day of rest. I feel guilty when that happens, even though I got some dishes done, went down to the mall and got money on my laundry cards and picked up my Blister Pack with my weekly medications.

I don't like it when I can't concentrate enough to read. As a result, I watched TV when my pain wouldn't let me sleep.

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Just for today, I will remember that I am not in charge. I will remember that today is one of change. Just because I have done things for 74 years or 25 years, doesn't mean that what worked in the past, serves me in today. If I have done things that long without change, there is a good chance that I have become complacent, and it is time to look at where I am at and what do I need to change in my life to see what is no longer working.

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Just for today, I will get out of the "I" and get with the "We." Getting out of self is so important. I must remember it isn't all about me. There are others who have issues much worse than mine. I will try not to resent that my son gave me his cold. ;) When he is sick, he is like a bear. He didn't go to work today. This is my second morning, the other one was my goodnight.

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Just for today, I will accept my limitations. Today I took a taxi to and from my chiropractor's appointment. I had planned to go to the library on my way home and realized that I would be stressing my body too much to go to the mall. The mall is about two blocks wide and the library is at the back of the mall near the market, which isn't open on Wednesdays. The two books are not overdue yet, but getting close. Haven't even checked to see if I had books to pick up. I will hopefully have more energy tomorrow on my way home from my group and before I go to the Hollisstic Center. I am so looking forward to going as my hip is out and I am hoping to get a treatment on my legs that will help me to release the fluid from the Edema. I was asked today about support stockings. I bought them, but don't have enough strength in my hands to pull them on. I have to find an alternative solution, and the Hollistic Center is it.

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Just for today, I will stay in the moment. I will turn my day over to my Higher Power and await His Guidance. I will go with the flow and takes things as they come. As they say, "I can make plans, but not plan the outcome." Have found many times that my God and I are not always on the same page. It is hard to believe I wrote this, then went to Angelwinks site and got the following picture.

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Just for today, I will put aside envy of those who have transportation to where they want to go when they want to get there. I made a step toward this when I renewed my Dart membership. I just have to be careful to not build up a resentment as their service is slow and I don't do waiting well. So grateful that this program is one day at a time.

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Just for today, I will be patient and accepting. People are where they are at and I can't change them. I am waiting for my sister to call, don't have a clue as to when she will call, so don't want to leave home until I hear from her. Just trying to stay in the moment and not take on other people's stuff.

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Just for today, I pray for patience and tolerance. I guy came into the laundry room. He said, "Your clothers are finished if you are in #1 washer. I went over, and started to put them into a dryer. He handed me the cloths that I left behind in the dryer. I said, "Don't touch my clothes." I realized that I had raised my voice, I am generally soft spoken, but the words didn't come out that way. He said, "I was just trying to help." For me, his intent was to get my stuff out so he could get his in because he was in a hurray and not about helping me. I maybe wrong, but by the time I had the dryer started, his clothes were in and he was out the door. I didn't know the man. I had never seen him in the building before. I felt like he was intruding into my space.

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Just for today, I am very grateful. I am getting to see my sister who lives in Tweed, which is about a four hour drive from me. She is three years younger than me and the middle sister. I would go visit her but she has cats, so I would not be able to visit her for very long.

Grateful to be going out even though it is raining. Will take my umbrella and cane, and if I am lucky, I will get me from the door to the car and back.

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