Snips

Sometimes we need to make side trips - side trips into experiences, emotions, situations that take us off center and somewhere new. Sometimes that's where our greatest learning and growth occur. If a side trip is beckoning, perhaps there's a lesson there: an old feeling to be felt, healed and cleared; a new attitude or belief to be acquired; a revelation, a surprise. Remember this: a side trip, with all it's emotions, isn't about another person. It's about you and your journey to healing, freedom and joy. Ignoring a situation that can take you off center won't take you to the next place. Going more deeply into your own growth process, going more deeply into you soul is what will further your journey.Everything that happens to you can be used, felt, shaped and transformed to further your journey. This process of growth, of side trips and healing, is your destiny, the magical journey of your soul.To get to the next place, we need to leave the comfortable main road we've been traveling. Sometimes a side trip is exactly what we need to make.Melody Beattie~
Look past the body, past the personality, past the behavior, into the window of one another's souls. There we make a connection. The God in me recognizes and honors the God in you. / Mary Manin Morrissey
AA Thought of the Day / ... I know that for help in the spiritual sphere I have to turn to a Higher Power. / AA, p. 473

If you want to have a successful, happy and productive life, you must learn to accept, even welcome or embrace change. I know it can be difficult. We become comfortable with the status quo, going along on our path feeling fine and all of a sudden wham! something happens to upset our apple cart. It can be something as serious as the loss of a loved one or a job or home. It may be a minor upset like rain on your vacation or a broken date. Whatever the situation, change or circumstance we must learn to handle it or we may be immobilized by it.
Jim Donovan
"Man loves because he is Love. He seeks Joy, for he is Joy. He thirsts for God for he is composed of God and he cannot exist without Him."Sathya Sai Baba

"The future, higher evolution will belong to those who live in joy, who share joy, and who spread joy."Torkom Saraydarian

A being whos awareness is totally free, who does not cling to anything, is liberated.Ram Dass
If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is to stop digging. Will Rogers

namaste...