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Many of us have trust issues.Some of us were taught that life couldn't be trusted, that we had to control and manipulate our way through.Most of us were taught, inappropriately, that we couldn't trust ourselves.In our work now, we're healing from our trust issues. We're learning to trust again. The first lesson in trust is this: We can learn to trust ourselves. We can be trusted. If others have taught us we cannot trust ourselves, they were lying. Addictions and dysfunctional systems make people lie.We can learn to appropriately trust our Higher Power - not to make people do what we wanted them to, but to help us take care of ourselves, and to bring about the best possible circumstances, at the best possible times, in our life.We can trust the process of life. We do not have to control, obsess, or become hypervigilant. We may not always understand where we are going, or what's being worked out in us, but we can trust that something good is happening.When we learn to do this, we are ready to learn to trust other people. When we trust our Higher Power and when we trust ourselves, we will know who to trust and what to trust that person for.Perhaps we always did. We just didn't listen closely enough to ourselves or trust what we heard.Today, I will affirm that I can learn to trust appropriately. I can trust myHigher Power, my intuition, myself. I can learn to appropriately trust others too.
Melody Beattie ©

Spiritual community is created when we come together on a regular basis with a common intention: to extend love beyond our immediate families. Through this shared affinity, we encourage, challenge and remind one another that nothing is impossible.Mary Manin Morrissey

AA Though of the Day / ...our thinking about humility commences to have a wider meaning. / 12 & 12, p. 74

Love yourself for having the courage to come to the physical plane and for attempting this very difficult journey. Love yourself for the connection that you have to the power of the universe. Love yourself for your wonderful humanness, your vulnerability, your confusion, even your ignorance. Love yourself for the child that you are. You are here in your innocence to grow and to learn.Shakti Gawain

Once we have prayed for something, we must step fully into the new vibration and not go backward into thoughts, words, or actions that affirm the condition we were praying to heal. We are always affirming what we want or what we don't want, and everything we think, say, or do is directing our energy in one direction or another.
Alan Cohen

We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other. To meet, to love, to share. It is a precious moment, but it is transient. It is a little parentheses in eternity. If we share with caring, lightheartedness, and love We will create abundance and joy for each other, and this moment will have been worthwhileDeepak Chopra

Whenever we feel constrained, fearful, unworthy, inadequate or anything we deem to be negative, we have identified with our personality. We can always choose to view the same situation from the perspective of our soul.
Martia Nelson

Faith is not trying to believe something regardless of the evidence. Faith is daring to do something regardless of the consequences. Sherwood Eddy

Genuine insight can't dawn on a mind that's not open to receive it.Marianne Williamson