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Often, the spiritual lessons we're learning at work reflect the lessons we're learning in other areas of our life. Often, the systems we're attracted to in our working life are similar to the systems in which we find ourselves living and loving. Those are the systems that reflect our issues and can help us learn our lessons.Are we slowly learning to trust ourselves at work? How about at home? Are weslowly learning to take care of ourselves at work? Are we slowly learning boundaries and self-esteem, overcoming fear, and dealing with feelings?If we search back over our work history, we will probably see that it is a mirror of our issues, our growth. It most likely is now too.For today, we can believe that we are right where we need to be -- at home and at work.Today, I will accept my present circumstances on the job. I will reflect on how what I am learning in my life applies to what I'm learning at work. If I don't know, I will surrender to the experience until that becomes clear.God, help me accept the work I have been given to do today. Help me be open to and learn what I need to be learning. Help me trust that it can and will be good.
Melody Beattie ©

"Having to make decisions can be awful. We go round and round in our minds, not quite knowing which set of factors should he given greater weight. Sometimes reason competes with gut instinct, which only seems to make matters worse. But what if we could place all our decisions in the hands of God? What if a decision surrendered to the divine was a decision surrendered to the highest level of intelligence, wisdom, and love?"
Marianne Williamson

AA Thought for the Day / I had tried to be the center of my own little world,whereas God was the center of a vast universe of which I was perhaps essential, but a very tiny, part. / c. 2001 AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 251

With your actions, prompted and guided by your thoughts, you are always creating something. On this day, in this moment, the life you are living makes a real difference in one way or another. It is an awesome power, and yet it can be difficult to comprehend because it is usually so spread out over time. The little, seemingly meaningless things you do from moment to moment combine together to create the life you live. The most magnificent achievement you could imagine is, at its heart, built upon the recognition that every moment counts. To the degree that you acknowledge and act upon that reality, success will come your way. You are rich beyond all calculation, and yet that richness cannot be hoarded or hidden away. To be experienced and enjoyed, it must be lived out across the individual moments in each passing day. Live as though you have nothing to hold you back and everything to pull you forward. For in the richness of the moment, both conditions are true. Every moment counts, especially this one. Make it count for something wonderful.
Ralph Marston

We do not have to beseech God any more than we have to beseech the sun to shine. The sun shines because it is a law of its being to shine, and it cannot help it. No more can God help pouring into us unlimited wisdom, life, power, all good, because to give is a law of His being. Nothing can hinder Him except our own lack of understanding. The sun may shine ever so brightly, but if we have, through willfulness or ignorance, placed ourselves, or have been placed by our progenitors, in the far corner of a damp, dark cellar, we get neither joy nor comfort from its shining; then to us the sun never shines.
Emily Cady

"When we know that the cause of something is in ourselves, and that we (ourselves) are one of the few things in the universe that we have the right and ability to change, we begin to get a sense of the choices we really do have, an inkling of the power we have, a feeling of being in charge... of our lives, of our future, of our dreams."
John-Roger and Peter McWilliams

Men talk about Bible miracles because there is no miracle in their lives. Cease to gnaw that crust. There is ripe fruit over your head.
Henry David Thoreau

Continuing to cling to the patterns you know inhibits your ability to discover what you don't know.
Eric Allenbaugh

"Life does not happen to us, it happens from us."
Mike Wickett