The material presented
here is not Al-Anon Conference Approved Literature. It is a method
to exchange
information, ideas, feelings, problems and solutions on a personal
level.
My sponsor sent this to me a while back and I saved it. Ran across it tonight for no "aparent" reason. One double click that missed it's mark and all of a sudden - a reading that is just what I needed to see tonight. I am so appreciative to him for that.
Hope you enjoy it too.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. --Bill Cosby "Oh, how I wish my dad would get sober." "Oh, how I want my friend to get help with her eating problem." "Oh, how I wish I could make my mom understand." When we become obsessed with how we want others to change, we put our own happiness on hold. As we wait, hoping and scheming about how to get others to see their many problems, we are neglecting ourselves. It's almost as if we think it's not fair for us to be happy when others are miserable. But when we detach with love, we still care, we still pray and wish for the best, but we know that other people's problems belong to them, not to us. Today let me accept the fact that if I detach with love, no one will die from it. I'll just be more healthy and happy. Our Best Days by Nancy Hull-Mast
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"Good judgement comes from experience... experience comes from bad judgement" - unknown