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02/08 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY
When we first stopped drinking, using, over-eating, or gambling, it was an enormous relief to find that the people we met in The Program seemed quite different than those apparently hostile masses known as "They." We were met not with criticism and suspicion, but with understanding and concern. However, we still encounter people who get on our nerves, both within The Program and outside it. Obviously, we must begin to accept the fact that there are people who'll sometimes say things with which we disagree, or do things we don't like. AM I BEGINNING TO SEE THAT LEARNING TO LIVE WITH DIFFERENCES IS ESSENTIAL TO MY COMFORT AND, IN TURN, TO MY CONTINUING RECOVERY?
TODAY I PRAY
May I recognize that people'sdifferences make our world go around and tolerate people who "rub me the wrong way." May I understand that I must give them room, that some of my hostile attitudes toward others may be leftovers from the unhealthy days when I tended to view others as mobilized against me.
TODAY I WILL REMEMBER
Learn to live with differences.
It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end. ~Ursula K. LeGuin
Today I am grateful..
For the bitter sweet weekend I have had..
For my mentor Duck who we laid to rest on Saturday.. He was a very wise man and taught me so much..
For One Windmill that Homey and I played on Friday.. If you know what that is you are country but if you don't it is where you are driving and basically count all the windmills that you see.. BTW I won 14-13.. LOL
For bowling time with the Little Fools..
That I got to see the Little Fools play basketball.. Our future sports teams are in trouble because they have no coaching at all..
That although this was a tough weekend with the funeral and the Superbowl.. That Bill W and I are still friends..
Co-Founder
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Interview on www.weightlosssurgerychannel.com Please check it out.. http://www.weightlosssurgerychannel.com/programs/wls-journeys/wls-journeys-guest-ramon-lopez.html/
Video, about me, made by my best friend Yvonne.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gCxNTyRUo0
PEACE
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I knew all about my alcoholism, eating disorder, and other addictions well before my surgery. They have just gotten so much worse since my surgery, because of my unwillingness to do what it takes to deal with my negative feelings.
Feel free to ask questions. I have never felt so low in all my life.
God bless.
Trish
Albert Schweitzer
02/5 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY
If I am troubled, worried, exasperated or frustrated, do I tend to rationalize the situation and lay the blame on someone else? When I am in such a state, is my conversation punctuated with, "He did..., " "She said...," "They did.."? Or can I honestly admit that perhaps I'm at fault. My peace of mind depends on overcoming my negative attitudes and tendency toward rationalization. WILL I TRY, DAY BY DAY, TO BE RIGOROUSLY HONEST WITH MYSELF?
TODAY I PRAY
May I catch myself as I talk in the third person, "He did..." or "They promised..." or "She said she would..." and listen for the blaming that has become such a patter for me and preserves delusion. May I do a turnabout and face myself instead.
TODAY I WILL REMEMBER
Honesty is the only policy.
It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end. ~Ursula K. LeGuin
Today I am grateful..
For early morning meeting with Bill W..
For smiles and cries..
For people that believe in me.. And those that don't..
For little things..
That I am MON to some special people in my life..
Co-Founder
http://www.rydobesity.com
Interview on www.weightlosssurgerychannel.com Please check it out.. http://www.weightlosssurgerychannel.com/programs/wls-journeys/wls-journeys-guest-ramon-lopez.html/
Video, about me, made by my best friend Yvonne.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gCxNTyRUo0
PEACE
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02/04 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY
Rare is the recovering alcoholic who will now dispute the fact that denial is a primary symptom of the illness. The Program teaches us that alcoholism is the only illness which actually tells the afflicted person that he or she really isn't sick at all. Not surprisingly, then, our lives as practicing alcoholics were characterized by endless rationalization, countless alibis and in short, a steadfast unwillingness to accept the fact that wer were, without question, bodily and mentally different from our fellows. HAVE I CONCEDED TO MY INNERMOST SELF THAT I AM TRULY POWERLESS OVER ALCOHOL?
TODAY I PRAY
May The Program's First Step be not half-hearted for me, but a total admission of powerlessness over my addiction. May I rid myself of that first symptom -- denial -- which refuses to recognize any other symptom of my disease.
TODAY I WILL REMEMBER
Deny denial.
It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end. ~Ursula K. LeGuin
Happy Hump Day..
Today I am grateful..
For another day..
That I am understanding a lot of new things offered to me..
That life gets better everyday..
That I get to go watch the Little Fools play basketball Saturday..
That I am still friends with Bill W.
Co-Founder
http://www.rydobesity.com
Interview on www.weightlosssurgerychannel.com Please check it out.. http://www.weightlosssurgerychannel.com/programs/wls-journeys/wls-journeys-guest-ramon-lopez.html/
Video, about me, made by my best friend Yvonne.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gCxNTyRUo0
PEACE
464/409/200
Thanks Obesityhelp.com
Today I am grateful for ..
this website so that I can post A DAY AT A TIME on
this website so that I can read Ramon's grateful posts
for joining the gym last nite and Johnny for helping me workout
for my BF.. and the love we feel for one another.
for all of this.. I'm most grateful!
It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end. ~Ursula K. LeGuin
02/03 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY
The Program enables us to discover two roadblocks that keep us from seeing the value and comfort of the spiritual approach: self-justification and self-righteousness. The first grimly assures me that I'm always right. The second mistakenly comforts me with the delusion that I'm better than other people -- "holier than thou." JUST FOR TODAY, WILL I PAUSE ABRUPTLY WHILE RATIONALIZING AND ASK MYSELF, "WHY AM I DOING THIS? IS THIS SELF-JUSTIFICATION REALLY HONEST?"
TODAY I PRAY
May I overcome the need to be "always right" and know the cleansing feeling of release that comes with admitting, openly, a mistake. May I be wary of setting myself up as an example of self-control and fortitude, and give credit where it is due -- to a Higher Power.
TODAY I WILL REMEMBER
To err is human, but I need to admit it.
It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end. ~Ursula K. LeGuin
That for Serenity..
That although some people may have given up on me.. I know God hasn't because I am still here..
For courage..
That wisdom..
That I am getting to be better friends with Bill W everyday..
Co-Founder
http://www.rydobesity.com
Interview on www.weightlosssurgerychannel.com Please check it out.. http://www.weightlosssurgerychannel.com/programs/wls-journeys/wls-journeys-guest-ramon-lopez.html/
Video, about me, made by my best friend Yvonne.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gCxNTyRUo0
PEACE
464/409/200
Thanks Obesityhelp.com
