Hello & Good Morning Everyone........ Hope you all made it through this week O,K. Its Saturday and the end of the work week for most of you so here's hoping you will enjoy the weekend to the fullest.
I know I will try. I hope you have a wonderful weekend and your days are filled with Happiness and Contentment.
Have a Safe, Sober/Clean & Happy One.......
Love & Hugsssss
jayson cole
Gratitude
Sometimes in life, things happen too fast. we barely solve one problem when two new problems surface. We're feeling great in the morning, but we're submerged in misery by nightfall. Every day we face interruptions, delays, changes, and challenges. We face personality conflicts and disappointments. Often when we're feeling overwhelmed, we can't see the lessons in these experiences. One simple concept can get us through the most stressful of times. It's called gratitude. We learn to say, thank you, for these problems and feelings. Thank you for the way things are. I don't like this experience, but thank you anyway. Force gratitude until it becomes habitual. Gratitude helps us stop trying to control outcomes. It is the key that unlocks positive energy in our life. It is the alchemy that turns problems into blessings, and the unexpected into gifts.
Today, I will be grateful. I will start the process of turning today's pain into tomorrow's joy.
However many holy words you read, However many you speak, What good will they do you, If you do not act upon them? --Buddha
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were. --Kahlil Gibran
The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do. --John Holt
Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others. --Wilfred Peterson
"Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content." --Helen Keller
"Seven days without a meeting makes one weak." --unknown
"There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps." --Peter A. Cohen
Words are powerful tools. Use them to help and not hurt. --Cited in BITS & PIECES
well sirs and madams,,,, im here at the Ashram again,, all here are eagerly looking forward to the full moon on MOnday nite,, the practice is to walk around the Rock,, all of 16 kilometers ,, after the moon gets full. supposed to be auspicious,, but for me more than any superstition its a practical thing,, im catching up on my walking,trekiink etc...all great things to do in recovery !!! Ive also indulged in another favourite pastime,,driving ! Before i got here ive driven about 500 miles to another city,met a client, met a sponsee and did the driving adventure. and know what,,, you cannot escape thoughts when driving,, they are there and Ive been fascinated how the Serenity Prayer works when disturbacne for nowe or the past comes up !!! and of course if its good feelings,, there jo bother at all,, they get magnified when driving in the countryside,, going past hills,, seeing blue skies and green feilds,, all very soothing and serene and a great thing to do just for today,,, my thoughts will be on my recovery,living and enjoying life without the use of drugs !!!
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Raman an addict clean and serene just for today in NA Worldwide ; live to love and love to live the NA Way !!!
Thanks for the wonderful post Jayson, you have a happy weekend too.
Blithe, hope you have some great fun with your li'l ones...
Raman, my friend, your spirit for adventure and travel is inspiring...
Thank you all for the updates on what's up with your life and recovery. I'm off to Goa on Monday with my wife on a vacation. Two of her sponsees have come down from Denmark and I'm glad that my wife would be having some real danish fun that she misses a lot after having settled here in India with me.
Meanwhile, I'm going to make the two NA meetings that have started up there. Today, one of my NA friends there said that monday meetings are not happening lately there, so we decided that we will open the meeting and get it going. Look forward to meeting my friend and sharing and caring the NA way with him
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"If we do an honest examination of exactly what we are giving, we are better able to evaluate the results we are getting."Chapter 10 - Emotional Pain - NA Way of Life.
Good luck Tahir hope all went well and good and that meetings saves some lives.
I went out prospecting friday and then again today and today I finally found a sweet spot with gold, heres some pictures, taking off again tomorrow to clean out the spot since today we only had about an hour to work it before it got dark. Martin Luther kings B-Day tomorrow anyhow gonna take the holiday with no pay but I will get payed in GOLD!!!
Havin' a great time here in the Beaches of Goa. Fun, Sun and Intimate moments with my wifey
I was walking down the sea shore today wearing a NA T-shirt when I was stopped by two foreign tourists. The moment they said they were NA too, there was a warm feeling of having found a safe shore in the middle of all that chaotic flow of booze and drugs around us
I gave them my phone number, the address of the NA meeting there along with the time and day. Hope to see them again on Friday at this NA meeting. The miraculous part about this NA meeting here that takes place every friday is that it is run and attended by non-indians, all foreigners who frequest Goa regularly. There is only one local member from Goa as part of this group, one of my good rehab friends who is so glad that he has finally got NA meetings and fellowship in his town thanks to these members and his Sponsor from Sweden who helped start these meetings here along with many european visiting members What a miracle NA is in the way it spreads Higher Power continues to amaze me through His miracles.
More later, miss you all, there's no easy internet accessibility here as I live on the sea shore resort...
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"If we do an honest examination of exactly what we are giving, we are better able to evaluate the results we are getting."Chapter 10 - Emotional Pain - NA Way of Life.
gonna take the holiday with no pay but I will get payed in GOLD!!!
