Honesty

What is the most honest thing I can do today?

Dr. Thomas Moore

Just imagine taking a course at a university where the goal of the course would be to love your Soul more.  What if that were set up as the objective of the course?  You're going to love your Self more at the end of this course than you did at the beginning....That's a very different point of view.  Can you imagine the radical transformation in education?

It's a WE Program

We own our time and we own our energy.  It's so beautiful.  What is "The Motivation and/or Intention."  Is the answer LOVE-based?  We have nothing to prove and no people to please.  For me, I do my best to come from a Loving, Heart Center.  I own my time and I own my energy.  For instance, the commitment to be the coin person at the Wake-up Call AA meetings & my willingness to go back to school.  Dust myself off and try again.  What am I capable of?  Throughout all of eternity, I am the common denominator....Peace.

John Edward "Infinite Quest" pg. 27

You have nothing to prove and nothing to hide.

My Friend, Neale

Neale Donald Walsch

There is nothing that happens in life that is not for our benefit, nor can there be, for it would not be happening. This is because evolution moves in only one direction: forward and upward, to ever increasing levels of efficiency and magnificence.

Krysia T. T. Millen

Paradigm Shift

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

The Serenity Prayer

God,
Grant me the Serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
Courage to change the things I can,
and Wisdom to know the difference.

Unity, Service, Recovery

"To Thine Own Self Be True"

24 Hours - "One Day at a Time"

Today, I will do just one thing to help my recovery progress. 
Acceptance, Hope, Change, Awareness

7th Step Prayer pg. 76

My Creator, I am now willing that you should have all of me, good and bad.  I pray that you now remove from me every single defect of character which stands in the way of my usefulness to you and my fellows.  Grant me strength, as I go out from here, to do your bidding.  Amen.

3rd Step Prayer pg. 63

God, I offer myself to Thee - to build with me and to do with me as Thou wilt.  Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do Thy will.  Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of Thy Power, Thy Love, and Thy Way of life.  May I do Thy will always.
We thought well before taking this step making sure we were ready; that we could at last abandon ourselves utterly to Him.

11th Step Prayer - St. Francis

Lord, make me a channel of thy peace - that where there is hatred, I may bring love - that where there is wrong, I may bring the spirit of forgiveness - that where there is discord, I may bring harmony - that where there is error, I may bring truth - that where there is doubt, I may bring faith - that where there is despair, I may bring hope - that where there are shadows, I may bring light - that where there is sadness, I may bring joy.  Lord, grant that I may seek rather to comfort than to be comforted - to understand, than to be understood - to love, than to be loved.  For it is by self-forgetting that one finds.  It is by forgiving that one is forgiven.  It is by dying that one awakens to Eternal Life.  Amen.

The Realm of the Spirit

The realm of spirit is broad, roomy, all inclusive, never exclusive or forbidding to those who earnestly seek.  It is open, we believe, to all men.

Some "Loving" Principles - The Way

1.  Surrender, Self-Control
2.  Faith, Higher Power, Goodness,
3.  Decisiveness, Cooperation, Trust, Willingness, Gentleness
4.  Honesty, Inventory, Self-survey, Patience, Forthright
5.  Confession, admission
6.  Open-mindedness, Readiness
7.  Humility
8.  Acceptance, Willingness
9.  Courage, Forgiveness,
10. Fortitude, Perseverance, Self-survey, Tolerance, Gentleness
11. Seek, Search, Ask, Knock, Pray, Meditate, Gratefulness, Freedom, Free Will, Spiritual Growth, Improvement in Conscious Contact with God, Progess, Peace of Mind, Serenity,
12. Spiritually Awake, Service, Happiness, Appreciation, Unity, Altruistic Love, Joy, Kindness,

Room for Improvement

If our basics are so firmly fixed as all this, then what is there left to change or to improve?  The answer will immediately occur to us.  While we need not alter our truths, we can surely improve their application to ourselves, to A.A. as a whole, and to our relation with the world around us.  We can constantly step up the practice of "these principles in all our affairs."

The Promises pg. 83 Big Book

If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we are half way through.  We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness.  We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it.  We will comprehend the word serenity and we will know peace.  No matter how far down the scale we have gone, will see how our experience can benefit others.  That feeling of uselessness and self-pity will disappear.  We will lose interest in selfish things and gain interest in our fellows.  Self-seeking will slip away.  Our whole attitude and outlook upon life will change.  Fear of people and of economic insecurity will leave us.  We will intuitively know how to handle situations which used to baffle us.  We will suddenly realize that God is doing for us what we could not do for ourselves.  Are these extravagant promises?  We think not.  They are being fulfilled among us - sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly.  They will always materialize if we work for them.

Alcoholics Anonymous

http://www.aa.org/?Media=PlayFlash

Nice Time

Have a Nice Time, unless you have other plans....LOL....Peace.