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Topic: RE: Urgent Prayer Need
Let's just hope it was too much car time and she got car sick. Sure don't need the flu or anything! Praying for an uneventful rest of their trip!
Topic: Weekend Blessing
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Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.
Albert Schweitzer
Albert Schweitzer
Topic: Urgent Prayer Need
Please pray for my daughter, Colleen, and my grandchildren. Colleen called me about an hour ago, and it appears my granddaughter threw up all over the car, and it is raining. She is on the PA Turnpike, and could not stop where she is because it is unsafe. She was very upset, and concerned that Isabel was getting sick. Isabel is almost four years old. Colleen is high strung, and stresses out easily.
Thanks,
Trish
Thanks,
Trish
Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.
Albert Schweitzer
Albert Schweitzer
Topic: RE: Friday Prayer & Praise
Hi Karen,
I am up late, can't sleep. Too excited about the Munchkins coming to town, and I am also in a ton of pain. Not to mention the fact that my dog likes to sleep where my feet go, and I already have pain there to begin with.
Please pray the pain will lessen, and I will be able to get off the Percocet once and for all this month. I am physically dependent on it now, and it scares me.
Hugs,
Trish
I am up late, can't sleep. Too excited about the Munchkins coming to town, and I am also in a ton of pain. Not to mention the fact that my dog likes to sleep where my feet go, and I already have pain there to begin with.
Please pray the pain will lessen, and I will be able to get off the Percocet once and for all this month. I am physically dependent on it now, and it scares me.
Hugs,
Trish
Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.
Albert Schweitzer
Albert Schweitzer
Topic: Friday Prayer & Praise
Man o man am I late or what?! Been a busy day; knitting group, grocery shopping and a visit to the oral surgeon. Gotta have 2 teeth pulled, yuk, hate having my teeth worked on! Anybody have prayers or praises today. I know one of our Christian sisters, Evie, got her surgery approval today, she's been on pins and needles for days now. Congrats Evie you rock that sleeve and strut that red dress!
Topic: RE: TGIF Blessing
I know lots of people comment about Christians having to follow "all those rules" but I'm much more free now than before I was a Christian because I don't have to carry around a mountain of guilt. God gives us more freedom than man evcer can.
Topic: RE: TGIF Blessing
This devotion reminds me of the Bible study I have been attending, but have missed the past few weeks due to surgery and other commitments. It is a Beth Moore study called, "Breaking Free." It has to do with the same idea, Becoming free from Spiritual bondage.
Sometimes, people in AA talk about using alcohol to fill the hole in our soul. I have used so many things to try to fill that hole. Alcohol, food, shopping, men, work, are just the top five.
Can anyone else relate to this?
Hugs,
Trish
Sometimes, people in AA talk about using alcohol to fill the hole in our soul. I have used so many things to try to fill that hole. Alcohol, food, shopping, men, work, are just the top five.
Can anyone else relate to this?
Hugs,
Trish
Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.
Albert Schweitzer
Albert Schweitzer
Topic: RE: Out of control
thanks for the sugar & carb ideas, will put them into practice at once!!
As for OA, the one in my community is a joke. They meet, then go out for buffet lunch or dinner. Not my idea of good support.
Blessings!!
As for OA, the one in my community is a joke. They meet, then go out for buffet lunch or dinner. Not my idea of good support.
Blessings!!
Topic: RE: Forgetting
Your prayer quote reminds me of what it says in one of the AA books about "self-will run riot." That pretty much summed up my life prior to my divorce, even after coming to AA. My therapist kept confronting me about changing my negative behaviors, and I kept messing up big time.
When my husband left me, I had an epiphany, like the scales came off my eyes and I saw all of my past behaviors, and how I had hurt my husband and kids. From that point on, I was making changes fast and furious.
I never want to forget where I came from, because I know what I am capable of if I relapse and don't get help. I was on my way to that with my last relapse. If I had not been in outpatient treatment, or therapy, it could have been a lot worse. I had periods where I would be sober for a couple of months, and then go on a weeklong tear. If not for treatment and therapy, those weeklong episodes would have been worse and closer together.
Sorry to babble. You stirred my brain into thinking.
Hugs,
Trish
When my husband left me, I had an epiphany, like the scales came off my eyes and I saw all of my past behaviors, and how I had hurt my husband and kids. From that point on, I was making changes fast and furious.
I never want to forget where I came from, because I know what I am capable of if I relapse and don't get help. I was on my way to that with my last relapse. If I had not been in outpatient treatment, or therapy, it could have been a lot worse. I had periods where I would be sober for a couple of months, and then go on a weeklong tear. If not for treatment and therapy, those weeklong episodes would have been worse and closer together.
Sorry to babble. You stirred my brain into thinking.
Hugs,
Trish
Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.
Albert Schweitzer
Albert Schweitzer
Topic: TGIF Blessing
April 1
Life’s Great Liberator
From some people’s countenance, we judge them to be happy. Smiles, makeup, and stylish clothing can create an appearance of inner peace. Internally, though, many are in bondage.
In today’s passage, Jesus clarifies His purpose: He has come to set free those in captivity. Christ was referring to several types of bonds that can imprison our souls.
First, Jesus breaks the chains of sin. All people have broken God’s law and consequently live apart from Him (Rom. 3:23). But Christ’s death and resurrection free us when we accept His gift of forgiveness and place our trust in Him. Then we can have a relationship with the Lord.
Secondly, He liberates us from persistent sins like jealousy, bitterness, and gluttony. His Spirit resides within each believer and provides the power to overcome wrong choices that seemed to “own" us. He enables us to do what He desires—by bringing immediate healing or by giving guidance and strength in the ongoing battle.
The Creator of mankind made us with a void in our hearts for Jesus to fill. Everything we put there—whether it seems like a good thing at the time or an obvious bad choice—will ultimately leave us empty. And we will remain in bondage until God frees us and then provides the only true satisfaction.
Are you one of those people who appear happy and seem to have life figured out, and yet inside feel uneasy and empty? Jesus Christ is the only One who can redeem you, forgive your sins, and fill the vacant place in your soul. Allow Him to liberate you today.
Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.
Albert Schweitzer
Albert Schweitzer
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