acceptance

miracles – a meditation

  Look for magic in daily routine. Lou Barlow I used to feel alone before my program of recovery. I felt like there no one I could turn to. I used to think that if there was a Higher Power, I want proof. The truth is that my outsides reflected what I believed inside. I…

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beg – a meditation

      You carry a basket full of bread, yet you beg for crumbs from door to door. You are up to your knees in water, yet you beg for a drink from everyone you see. Why are you so blind and stubborn? Beg at the door of your heart instead. — Rumi  …

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Step 7 – Episode 31

What is humility? How do we ask God to remove our shortcomings? Are they really defects? Listen as Spencer, Swetha, and Kelli, back together at last, talk about Step 7, Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings. We explore our understandings of the word “humbly”. It can mean that we accept ourselves as we are,…

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feelings– a meditation

  Most of the good work in this world was done by people who weren’t feeling all that well the day they  did it. Eleanor Roosevelt I have some extremely black-and-white thinking when left to my own devices;I think that I can either acknowledge, and therefore must submit to, my feelings or I think I…

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working through grief – a meditation

  Awareness. Acceptance. Action.   I have been thinking about how I “work the steps” on my grieving. The “3 A’s” of awareness, acceptance, and action give me the key. As I begin to become aware of my grief, I admit my powerlessness, and believe that my higher power can help me to move through…

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