Snips

Sometimes, life and people seem to push and push. Because we are so used to
pain, we may tell ourselves it doesn't hurt. Because we are so used to people controlling and manipulating us, we may tell ourselves there is something wrong with us.
There's nothing wrong with us. Life is pushing and hurting to get our attention. Sometimes, the pain and pushing are pointing toward a lesson. The lesson may be that we've become too controlling. Or maybe we're being pushed to own our power to take care of ourselves. The issue is boundaries. If something or somebody is pushing us to our limit, that's exactly what's happening: we're being pushed to our limits. We can be grateful for the lesson that's here to help us explore and set our boundaries.
Today, I will give myself permission to set the limits I want and need to set in my life.
Melody Beattie ©

I offer you this prayer for all the difficult relationships in our lives: God, grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the person I can, and the wisdom to know, that person is me.
Mary Manin Morrissey

AA Thought of the Day / Therefore, freedom from alcohol is the great "must" that has to be achieved, else we go mad or die. / As Bill Sees It, p. 134

When two people are encased behind their respective walls, someone needs to
take the first step and step out from behind their defenses so that communication and honesty can take place. Since I cannot ask of others what
I do not ask of myself, I take the first step and come out from behind the
wall of my fears. Will you join me, so we can play together and celebrate
life? I invite you to abandon your defenses and to become, once again, as
vulnerable as a newborn child. Together we can do it! Don't wait for others
to make the first step... They may be waiting for you!
Marie T. Russell

"This is the first step toward understanding the process of real, lasting change: simply knowing with certainty that you can do whatever you need to do. This understanding has a dual edge: On the one hand it increases your confidence and dignity. On the other hand, it places full responsibility on you if you fail to make the change you set out to make. But this is a good thing, not a guilt trip."
Bo Lozoff

Water never runs faster or slower than what the circumstances surrounding it require. It seeks its own level without effort or applied force. It flows. When your mind flows without force, you always find your own center, your own level. Your life becomes flowing and never moves faster or slower than your circumstances really require.
Lloyd J. Thomas

Prayer is the one thing that can make a change in your life. If you will go direct to God in simple, affirmative prayer, you can heal your body, bring peace and harmony into your life, and make well-being a reality.
Emmet Fox

Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.
Herbert Otto

Thoughts are waves of possibility in the Infinite Medium of shared Mind.
Amit Goswami