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John


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Hi everyone!  Yes, I am here, and yes I have been reading so many of your post and replies.  I pull a few pieces from this board every day and try to use them as a point of focus for myself as I go about my day.  However, I must admit that I start feeling very overwhelmed by it all sometimes and so helpless to really say or do anything that can bring about the difference you might be seeking.  I am still quite the mess myself, and just hanging on the best I can from day to day.

I send up prayers to the Majesty of Calmness for all of us.  Nature in all her beautiful love and tenderness, says to each of us, weakened and worn, and weary with the struggle, "Do in the best way you can the trifle that is under your hand at this moment; do it in the best spirit of preparation for the future your thought suggest; bring all the light of knowledge from all the past to aid you.  Do this and you have done your best.  The past is forever closed to you.  It is closed forever to you.  No amount of worry, no struggle, no suffering, no agony of despair can alter it.  It is as much beyond your power as if it were a million years of eternity behind you.  Turn all that past, with its sad hours, weakness and sin, its wasted opportunities into light; of confidence and hope, to shine upon your future.  Turn it all into a fuller truth and light so as to make each trifle of this present a new past, thus it will be a joy to look back to; each trifle a grander, nobler, and more perfect preparation for the future.  The present and the future you can make from it, is yours.  The past has gone back, with all its messages, all its history, all its records to the Majesty of Calmness who loaned these golden moments to you to use and create a true desire for better, because it has already been determined; you are worth it.  Let today be a opportunity to make a spiritual demonstration that you are moving towards that desired place.  And know, you are not doing it alone."

I have to say this as much for myself as for any one else that might benefit by reading it.  I have to remember that every day I am building my new tomorrow's, and yesterday doesn't get to hold me hostage.

John

 

 

 



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Hi, John. Beautifully worded expression of trust in the moment. That's really the only place we can find life and the Source of it, isn't it? All form is passing away, but that which gives the form meaning exists forever. Perhaps your physical difficulties and what appears to be lack of energy are taking you deeper into a spiritual experience that will be wondrous and so profound for you there will be no words to describe it? Prayers of blessing being sent to you.

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I am very unsure if this can help you, but I watch the movie "Eat, Pray, Love" whenever I am in the dumps and it helps me a lot. Sending you much love and support!

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Breakingfree wrote:

I am very unsure if this can help you, but I watch the movie "Eat, Pray, Love" whenever I am in the dumps and it helps me a lot. Sending you much love and support!

 Can you send me a link to where it can be watched online? Pleasssee?



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John the world as I say too much probably, is very hard. Especially as things seem to be coming to well something is coming.

Keep doing what you are doing, maybe shake out the heaviness and look for some lightness. Take those dogs for walks, do simple stuff, go get a friend and go for ice cream, feed the ducks...keep it simple. Plant a few flowers. Or just go get one of those pots of them and take care of them.

Where do you get your anti stressors? We all need to renew, need love in our lives. As adult things seem to get so dang serious.

One thing about my life John is I have gone without a few times and learned it was really kinda ok. I mean I survived and found some pleasure in it. ex taking showers under two beach umbrellas with the sun warmed water in the hose. Standing in a cement mixing pan with my little pig blowing bubbles in it!

Living in a fourteen by sixteen room at the end of my barn. So small that I never took more than a few min. to clean. It was cozy and simple.

When I get lonely, in this town no matter where I go people talk to me.I mean strangers. If I take my service dog, a very cute pomeranian named Fezzik, I can be in the grocery store for hours with people wanting to see him and pet him.

If you walk with your cute dogs, people are more likely to approach you. Put one in a front pack and you will have woman looking twice and more atcha!!

You gotta remember to give back to John!!! hugs, debilyn



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John

You do make a difference, the piece above has inspired me for today. I think we all end up so weary and burdened when we allow the heaviness of the past to dictate our feelings. When I actually remember to 'keep it in the day' I start to notice the little things of beauty, the light touch of friendship and the smiles of others. When I allow it the Life is being exactly what it needs to be in this moment

Thank You

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Hi John --

Have you read "Radical Acceptance" by Tara Brach? She also has free podcasts on itunes and her website...this stuff has helped me with perspective...

RP



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I also suggest watching Byron Katie on-line. Just put her name in the search engine. Then watch some of the interviews. Maybe you'll find some relief with her. I know I did. Got all her books, too. Very helpful. She was a mess herself until she realized that it all had to do with the way she was thinking. I added her wisdom to my Al-anon work as a suggestion from my sponsor.

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John I am sorry I recorded it onto my DVR from the t.v. so I am not sure how to watch movies online except through Netflix, but you have to have an account and I do not. I am still so happy that you are here and posting and have had so many insightful things to say that have been just what I needed to hear at the time! Keep on keeping on and I am sending you love and support!

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