75th Birthday

Thank You for the year just ahead

For the hope it holds

For the promise it proclaims

For the expectation of greater things

For the anticipation of what lies in the distance

For the opportunities You'll give me to bless others and for others blessing me

For 365 unseen days overflowing with Your grace.

(Jonathan Dukes in Prayers For Every Need, p. 237)

7 May 2014

Wishing

There's nothing odd about wanting our beliefs to be supported by facts. Yet we must recognize that wishing does not make something so and that we cannot invent the truth to please ourselves. Be willing to think clearly and judge rationally - and to accept the truth, like it or not.
(The Christophers, Three Minutes A Day, Vol. 41, 16 January)
6 May 2014

Behavior Patterns

Whenever you change your behavior patterns, people don't know what to make of it. At first they will insist on maintaining their own behavior patterns, hoping to keep up the familiar game. Then they will probably be a bit confused. Ultimately they will change in response to you.
(Sandra A. Crowe, Since Strangling Isn't An Option, p. 179)
5 May 2014

I Yam, What I Yam!

That child who is eternally present in our thoughts and dreams may be full of weakness and faults, but that is who we are. We are who we are as much because of our gaps and failures as because of our strengths.
(Thomas Moore, Care Of The Sould, p. 51)
4 May 2014)

Thinking

... thinking too much or in a negative way is almost as dangerous as not thinking at all.
(Hope For Today, 5 February)

The power to reason can be dulled when we fail to detach ourselves from the emotional content of a problem.
(One Day At A Time In Al-Anon, 3 February)
3 May 2014

Denial

The blindfold of denial can keep us from seeing the reality of our lives.

(after Amy E. Dean, Night Light, 23 January)

2 April 2014

May Day - 2014

Many of us have painful memories we carry with us like pictures in a wallet. We keep these memories alive through feelings generated by these moments. Why are we so attached to unpleasant memories?
(Amy E. Dean, Night Light, 5 January)
1 May 2014