Aloha Family...just some thoughts on last night's home group the Wednesday Night Turning Point AFG.  Our lead put up the subject of "being Happy" and shared from some observations from her literature and he life.  She works a good program and the subject was right on.  We had an exhuberant young new comer male who was "happy" really!! He shared about deciding on being responsible for his life and how it turned out and how he decided to live it.  One of his decisions was to live it the best and as happiest as he could make it.  What we discussed and what we learned from each other is that feelings are (happiness is one) choices and isn't derived from things outside of ourselves but from a source inside of ourselves.  The meeting was affirmation for what I have learned over time in the program.  Attitudes of gratitude even when I think that is impossible and want to resist it and attitudes of Happiness under the same conditions are doable with practice.  Often the light at the end of a dark tunnel is notice that the dark tunnel is almost over and our lantern has found it. On the otherside is spiritual, mental, emotional and physical relief.

I needed last nights meeting and the topic for what has been going on in my life which I can only handle with hope, faith and love.  My experiences have shown me that those are the tools most useful when I am practicing powerlessness.

Thanks to all for your ESH...fertilizer for my program.   ((((hugs))))