Readings

Am doing grats. But moving to readings for now.

Oh I love this. Today's For Today:

"To be alive is Power
Existence in itself
Without a further function
Omnipotence enough."
Emily Dickinson

"I am alive. I can make of that fact anything I want. i need no terms or conditions to exercise the power of life. All I have to do is live now. It is enough. There may be life in the future, and there was certainly life in the past, but my footing is in the present. Today is where the past has its meaning, and where the future is shaped. looking far forward, mapping out my life in the future, I waste the power of the present. And lingering in the past, twisting its circumstances and falsifying its memory is an injustice to both past and present. I am thankful that my past has brought me to this present, where I am learning to use all my energy and spirit to live.
For today: I revel in the power of being alive, and I thank God I am not afraid to exercise it to the fullest today."

Wow.

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Today's Voices of Recovery

"Am I able to accept the vicissitudes of life, the craziness, the alternating surprises and disappointments? Is it possible to accept and allow every moment of every day to be exactly as it is? Can I allow every person i meet to be exactly as he or she is at that moment?
With the help of my loving Higher Power who accepts and allows me to be exactly as I am at this moment, I can. With my dawning acceptance, I feel a peace and serenity beyond understanding.
Serenity is knowing and accepting that God is in charge."

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Today's In This Moment

"In This Moment, I stud my motivation.

Higher Power, please help me to be aware of my motives. When i perform acts of kindness. I need to know why I perform them. Am I being codependent? Am I motivated from the desire to gain the approval of others? if i am, please help me to change.

I seek to grow into a person who performs acts of kindness for healthy reasons."

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Today's Language of Letting Go

"Separating from Family Issues"
Oh boy, do I need this!

"We can draw a healthy line, a healthy boundary, between ourselves and our nuclear family. We can separate ourselves from their issues."
Promise? : )
"Some of us may have family members who are addicted to alcohol and other drugs and who are not in recovery from their addiction.
"Some of us may have family members who have unresolved codependence issues. Family members may be addicted to misery, pain, suffering, martyrdom, and victimization.
"We may have family members who have unresolved abuse issues or unresolved family of origin issues."
"We may have family members who are addicted to work, eating, or sex. Our family may be completely enmeshed, or we may have a disconnected family in which the members have little contact.
"we may be like our family. We may love our family. But we are separate human beings with individual rights and issues. one of our primary rights is to begin feelings better and recovering, whether or not others in the family choose to do the same.
"We do not have to feel guilty about finding happiness and a life that works. And we do not have to take on our family's issues as our own to be loyal and to show we love them.
"Often when we begin taking care of ourselves, family members will reverberate with overt and covert attempts to pull us back into the old system and roles. We do not have to go. Their attempts to pull us back are their issues. Taking care of ourselves and becoming healthy and happy does not mean we do not love them. It means we're addressing our issues.
"We do not have to judge them because they have issues; nor do we have to allow them to do anything they would like to us just because they are family.
"We are free now, free to take care of ourselves with family members. Our freedom start when we stop denying their issues, and politely, but assertively hand their stuff back to them - where it belongs - and deal with our own issues.

"Today, I will separate myself from family members." Wow. "I am a separate human being, even though I belong to a unit called a family. I have a right to my own issues and growth; my family members have a right to their issues and a right to choose where and when they will deal with these issues. I can learn to detach in love from my family members and their issues. I am willing to work through all necessary feelings in order to accomplish this."

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