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Good Morning to All. It's Saturday morning here and I am grateful for being blessed with another day .Its a little grey outside but Im powerless over that like Im powerless over a lot of things. The thing that Im not powerless over is the way I approach the day and most mornings I start of by looking at an affirmation I have stuck to the fridge door which says.If your not happy today, what are you waiting for.? And today you know I have a great many reasons to be happy and to look at just a few is a positive way to step into the day. Some mornings though I forget because I might be in a hurry, but Ive learnt that I can stop then change my thinking if things are running rough at any time. What I need to remember from time to time is that I am Human and not a Robot and that I can short change myself at times. But I can also balance the books through taking a moment to pray and ask for directions. One Prayer I say is the Seventh step prayer.
Seventh Step Prayer
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
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I just like this prayer and sometimes use it as a mantra it works for me. While on the Seventh step prayer .I do believe today when I use this prayer that God as I try to understand Him. Will remove from me every single defect of character which stands in the way of my usefulness to Him and my fellows. But all those other defects I have He probably wants me to put in a bit of action and do something about. Well I m going to get on with the day been good siting here an writing this .I hope your day is a sober one .God bless Lionel
Seventh Step Prayer
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
Page 76-A-A Big Book
I just like this prayer and sometimes use it as a mantra it works for me. While on the Seventh step prayer .I do believe today when I use this prayer that God as I try to understand Him. Will remove from me every single defect of character which stands in the way of my usefulness to Him and my fellows. But all those other defects I have He probably wants me to put in a bit of action and do something about. Well I m going to get on with the day been good siting here an writing this .I hope your day is a sober one .God bless Lionel
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I invited Bill to have dinner with me last Sunday. He wasn't willing to drive 7 hours to mid Michigan and teased me with his beautiful ribs!!! So, of course I ate alone and had cedar salmon
I've been a little discouraged, disheartened, disgusted, frustrated, irritated, agitated, & sad but have tried my darndest to stay positive. :)
Those little affirmations you speak of, they do help.
My daughter is staying with me until her apartment is ready next month and I have a note on the front door that reads.
"Good morning sunshine!! Smile! Don't forget to turn off the coffee pot & rinse it out please and make it a beautiful day, it's up to you sweetness!! I love you!"
And it makes me smile every morning when I walk out the door for work. :)
Even if I feel like poop on the inside, I'm trying to be my normal silly self. That's all I have to do and I have faith that God will take care of the rest through the skilled doctors & surgeons & nurses I have been seeing for 5 freakin months. D'OH! DId I just say that? Had to end with a negative huh? hee hee...
Have a beautiful day Lionel! :)
now knowing that I am looking for ways like taking Lionells affirmation and putting it with push pin onto my cube walls....things that can make a direct difference I will not lie I have not been doing...bad on me....
I guess each of us has our hot buttons...
hugs from the cooler...where the hot button today sent me....like in that movie The Great Escape where Steve McQueen spends many days bouncing a ball off the walls in the solitary cooler confinement that they punish him with....I am feeling things today...not good things
Love the post, and the prayer. Seventh step prayer was part of my night last night and it was nice to see it in your post this morning.
I like this one, too: "Have a good day, unless you have made other plans." ;-)
xo