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~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*LAUGHTER Is HEALING*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

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March 13
I have a purpose today. As I let go and let God,
This purpose is becoming more and more clear.
My heart is full of joy and love
as I move towards God's Will for me.
written by ~ Ruth Fishel
"Time for Joy" 
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~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Just for Today*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Am I A Good A.A. When...

I talk so long at meetings that the others
 do not get a chance ?

I interrupt when others are trying to talk ?

I break traditions and will not help a person,
  who has a double problem ?

I frighten an already frighten person with the
 dangers of the world ?

I treat everyone as though I was the only one
 with a brain ?

I criticize people who have been criticized all
 there lives ?

I throw an A.A. saying at someone instead of
 being understanding ?

I forget that a person that I dislike may have
 come a lot further than myself ?

I refuse sympathy or understanding to someone
 who wants and needs it so much ?

I criticize people holding offices that I couldn't
 handle nearly as well ?

I am envious of the ones who are doing the work
 that I am to lazy or scared to do ?

I talk so loud that no one else can have any peace
 of mind ?

I start a project and expect everyone else to feel
 the same way about it ?

I unload all my troubles on others, not giving them
 a chance to unload too ?

I want attention when I say something but do not
 listen to the other fellow ?

I look down my nose at people with dual problem ?

I quit counting my blessings and stop being grateful ?

I leave all the calling to the other person ?

I work so hard with someone who doesn't want
 A.A. that i am not ready for someone that does ?

I think being kind ends with A.A. members ?

I think I am the only one who has problems because
I am the only one telling them ?

  most of these things i do or resent in someone else ,
so I am not a good A.A. ; but i am very grateful that god ,
thru A.A. has helped me in spite of these defects !
also if you see yourself here take action !

love to all
Rich R. St Louis

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~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Make A Meeting*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Just For Today
March 13                          That One Special Person

   "With one sponsor, we can learn to build a relationship
based on trust and honesty Through shared experience,
a sponsor is able to reflect on personal growth."
IP No. 11, "Sponsorship"

We've asked someone to sponsor us, and the reasons we
have for asking that particular person are as many as the
grains of sand on a beach. Perhaps we heard them share at
a speaker meeting and thought they were funny or
inspiring. Perhaps we thought they had a great car and we
would get one by working the same program they work. Or
maybe we live in a small town and they were the only
person who had the time available to help.

Whatever our initial reasons for getting the sponsor
we have, we're sure to find that our reasons for keeping
them are quite different. Suddenly they'll amaze us with
some stunning insight, making us wonder whether they've
been sneaking peeks at our Fourth Step. Or maybe we're
going through some sort of life crisis, and their
experience with the same problem helps us in ways we
never dreamed possible. We call them in pain, and they
come up with a special combination of caring words that
provide genuine comfort.

None of these remarkable feats on the part of our
sponsor are mere coincidence. They've simply walked the
same path before us. A Higher Power has placed that one
special person in our lives, and we are grateful for
their presence.    

Just for today:  I will appreciate that one special
person in my life—my sponsor.

Just For Today Daily Meditation is the property of Narcotics Anonymous ©
1991 by World Service Office Inc.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Get Involved In Service*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

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~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Get A Sponsor*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Use Your Sponsor*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Overcoming Self-Will

So our troubles, we think, are basically of our own making.  They arise out
of ourselves, and the alcoholic is an extreme example of self-will run
riot, though he usually doesn't think so.  Above everything, we alcoholics
must be rid of this selfishness.  We must, or it kills us!
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p.  62

For so many years my life revolved solely around myself I was consumed with
self in all forms -- self-centeredness, self-pity, self-seeking, all of
which stemmed from pride.  Today I have been given the gift, through the
Fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous, of practicing the Steps and Traditions
in my daily life, of my group and sponsor, and the capacity -- if I so
choose -- to put my pride aside in all situations which arise in my life.

Until I could honestly look at myself and see that I was the problem in
many situations and react appropriately inside and out; until I could
discard my expectations and understand that my serenity was directly
proportional to them, I could not experience serenity and sound sobriety.

Copyright 1990 ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES, INC.
Daily Reflection In Loving Memory Of Scott Reeves

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Be A Sponsor*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Twenty-Four Hours A Day by Hazelden/ March 13th

A.A. Thought for the Day

We've gotten rid of our false, drinking selves and
found our real, sober selves. And we turn to God,
our Father, for help, just as the Prodigal Son arose
and went to his father. At the end of the story, the
father of the Prodigal Son says: "He was dead and
is alive again, he was lost and is found." We
alcoholics who have found sobriety in A.A. were
certainly dead and are alive again. We were lost
and are found. Am I alive again?

Meditation for the Day

Gently breathe in God's spirit, that spirit which,
if not barred out by selfishness, will enable you
to do good works. This means rather that God will
be enabled to do good works through you. You can
become a channel for God's spirit to flow through
you and into the lives of others. The works that
you can do will only be limited by your spiritual
development. Let your spirit be in harmony with
God's spirit and there is no limit to what you can
do in the realm of human relationships.

Prayer for the Day

I pray that I may become a channel for God's spirit.
I pray that God's spirit may flow through me into
the lives of others.

"Twenty-Four Hours A Day" is a © Copyrighted book of
Hazelden Foundation.  No portion of this publication may
be reproduced in any manner without the written
permission of Hazelden.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Work The Steps*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Today's Thought
MARCH 13

You are reading from the book The Language of Letting Go.
Melody Beattie ©

Clarity and direction

In spite of our best efforts to work our programs and lean on Gods guidance,
we sometimes dont understand whats going on in our life. We trust, wait,
pray, listen to people, listen to ourselves, and the answer still does not
come.

During those times, we need to understand that we are right where we need to
be, even though that place may feel awkward and uncomfortable. Our life does
have purpose and direction.

We are being changed, healed, and transformed at levels deeper than we can
imagine. Good things, beyond our capacity to imagine, are being prepared and
brought to us. We are being led and guided.

We can become peaceful. We do not have to act in haste or urgency just to
relieve our discomfort, just to get an answer. We can wait until our mind is
peaceful. We can wait for clear direction. Clarity will come.

The answer will come, and it will be good for us and those around us.

Today, God, help me know I am being guided into whats good about life,
especially when I feel confused and without direction. Help me trust enough
to wait until my mind and vision are clear and consistent. Help me know that
clarity will come.

©1990, Hazelden Foundation. All rights reserved. No portion of this
publication may be reproduced in any manner without the written permission
of the publisher.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*You Are A Miracle*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

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~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Keep It Simple*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Holding On To Resentment

By Lloyd J. Thomas, Ph.D.

A young woman, recently separated from her jealous and possessive
marriage partner, closes her eyes and experiments with images of
forgiveness.  She tries to let her partner back into her heart, which
is closed to him by a wall of resentment, built and strengthened by
years of emotional pain and frustration.  She can't do it.  "The
resentment is too big," she says.

Despite the understanding that letting go of resentment is in our
own emotional best interests, we often keep our hurt and anger inside,
where it generates tension, stress and emotional havoc within.

In a close relationship, anger and resentment may center on an
isolated incident.  Your partner embarrassed you in front of friends
or was sexually unfaithful.  More often resentment is collected in
response to daily behaviors and attitudes that you feel aren't
important enough to confront, but you still hurt.  Your partner often
"puts you down" in front of the children, is sarcastic or hostile in
"little ways" or humiliates you with "funny stories" in social
settings.  You may disagree about money, child-rearing practices, or
your partner may be addicted to alcohol, drugs, work or sex.  Yet
there is a psychological bond between the two of you.  One that keeps
your relationship together despite the pain and resentment.

Someone once said, "If you want to walk the path of fire, get into a
relationship." Resentment, kept inside, generates heat.  And heat can
be the catalyst to dissolution of the relationship, or to your healing
through self-discovery and fulfillment.  In part it depends on what
you do with that energy.

In order to heal, when filled with resentment, you have to have the
willingness to forgive.  Not that you forgive for the sake of the
other.  Not that you condone your partner's behavior.  Rather, you
need to heal yourself from within.  And forgiveness is the route
leading to your own emotional healing.

After her visualization, the woman described above, cried out, "I'm
afraid if I let go of my resentment, I will have to go back to my
husband and I really don't want to do that." We hold on to our
resentments for a variety of reasons.  Here are but a few.

We keep our resentments inside as a method of:

~ proving to ourselves that we are "right" and the other is
clearly I/wrong;

~ reinforcing a belief that the other really isn't worth
loving (he or she doesn't deserve it");

~ maintaining control (or illusion of control) of the
relationship or the situation;

~ being angry to avoid intimacy, or other deeper feelings of
hurt, sadness, despair, sex or fear;

~ being heard or listened to;

~ taking revenge or punishing ("getting back at" a partner);

~ keeping the position that the problem is all the others fault;

~ maintaining the "status quo" out of fear that change would be
destructive.

Basically, we learn to hold on to our resentments as a way of
protecting our own ego.  The personal emotional price of such
protection is high.  Nobel Prize laureate, Hans Selye, described the
most stressful emotion as "the desire for vengeance."

You have at least four choices if you are keeping in anger or
resentment: 1) Hold on to it indefinitely and be pretty miserable; 2)
Forgive and become more free, peaceful and clearer; 3) Let go of your
own fear and create the opportunity for you and your partner to
develop a new level of respect, understanding, and intimacy; or 4)
Decide to forgive and choose to keep as a top priority, the
maintenance of the partnership.

If you decide to forgive, remember to acknowledge all of your
feelings toward your partner...not just the hurt or resentment.  Take
responsibility for sharing what you want, what you fear, what you
need, what you would like it to be between the two of you.  Keeping
the lines of communication open is one of two critical factors in
becoming forgiving.

Keeping your heart open is the other.  Resentment collecting closes
off some part of you and keeps it hidden from yourself or others.
Forgiveness allows you to become fully open to the possibility of
love, enjoyment, fulfillment and connection with others.  An open
heart keeps you alive.

Lloyd J. Thomas, Ph.D. has 30+ years experience as a Life Coach and
Licensed Psychologist.  He is available for coaching in any area
presented in "Practical Psychology."  As your Coach, his only agenda
is to assist you in creating the lifestyle you genuinely desire. The
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~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*One Day At A Time*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Maintain peace of mind.
Move at the pace of guidance.
Practice certainty of purpose.
Surrender to surprise.
Ask for what you need and offer what you can.
Love the folks in front of you.
Return to the world.

The Seven Whispers: Listening to the Voice of Spirit
Christina Baldwin

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*First Things First*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

I Know You're Tired

The magnitude of life is weighing
heavy on your shoulders,
you're weary...  oh so tired at end of day.
You're afraid you've nothing left to give
and questioning this life you live.
The joy that you once felt has gone away.

But way down deep inside yourself,
concealed from your view,
a tiny, hidden spark awaits your call.
It longs to be a brilliant light,
burning proud and full of fight.
It yearns for one more chance to stand you tall.

You've shared so many pieces
of your kind and loving soul.
You've put your needs and wants upon a shelf.
The time for 'you' is now at hand.
The world will surely understand
if you devote a slice of life to your precious yourself.

© 1999 Terri McPherson
Windsor, Ontario, Canada

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Easy Does It*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Gravity

Pushing ourselves up in life is more difficult
than going down or staying down in life
The theory of Gravity applies in our lives as well,

Staying down is easy, no work is needed
However, to reach the stars,
you would need a powerful boost ...

Of course this boost may come from others
but the greatest source of power
that can push you to great heights is your Heart ....

Within your heart lies Conscience
and within that conscience God lives
and working with both, miracles happen ...

joyce gordonj

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Live And Let Live*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Not Good Enough
Virjinja  

Why do you play  so loud?
Don't you know the  latest tunes?
Good pianists don't make  mistakes.
Who'd listen to  you?

Your legs are too  short
Your eyes too  wideset
What size do you  wear
You're not married  yet!

Poetry is  silly
No one wants to  hear
Words woven in  tapestry
A waste of time... oh,  please!

All these things they  say
Really say one  thing
Child, you're not good  enough
Instilling hearts with  fear

A helluva  nerve
Is exactly what they  have
And hell is where it  comes from
So quickly send it  back

You're not good  enough
Never comes from  God
'Cause more than good  enough
He made you from the  start

Who do we  listen to?
Who gives the  orders?
As children of  God...
His beloved sons and  daughters.

Play with all your  heart
It's music to God's  ears
He longs to hear your  songs of love
Your poems bring Him to  tears
Of joy beyond  compare
He loves  your dreamy eyes
And gives strength to  your legs
To march forth  through life

Not good  enough?
What do they  know?
What they're really  'fraid of is...
You'll know it isn't  so.

©2006 ~ Virginia Santoro ~ All Rights  Reserved

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Keep The Focus On You*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.
Don Wilder

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Let God and Let Go*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

See God in every person, place, and thing,
and all will be well in your world.
Louise Hay 

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Come*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Keep away from people who belittle your ambitions.
Small people always do that,
but the really great,
make you feel that you too can become great.
Mark Twain

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Come To*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

What is life?

Life is a gift. . . accept it
Life is an adventure. . . dare it
Life is a mystery. . . unfold it
Life is a game. . . play it
Life is a struggle. . . face it
Life is beauty. . . praise it
Life is a puzzle. . . solve it
Life is opportunity. . . take it
Life is sorrowful. . . experience it
Life is a song. . . sing it
Life is a goal. . . achieve it
Life is a mission. . . fulfill it

David McNally

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Come To Believe*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Pain is a motivator.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Look For The Beauty*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

If God brings you to it,
He will see you through it.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Today Is A Gift*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

If you have enough pain,
you will learn to leave it alone.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Keep Stepping*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

We're here for a reason,
not for the season.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Stay In The Light*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

When you clean up after your group,
you leave the signature of NA behind you.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Take A Moment To GIVE (NO COST)*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

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~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*One Promise, Many Gifts*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

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Stay in the Light, 
In loving service,
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