Just for today, I will stay in the moment and deal with things as they appear in my life. I live so much in the day, but it is much easier to get through a day when I live it moment by moment, dealing with life on life's terms.

Live and let live, means for ME to live my life and allow others to live theirs, even though their spiritual concepts are different than mine.

This helps me with my chronic pain and fatigue, which can mess up my day if I don't accept it. Things don't unfold as I would always like them, but I do have to accept them for what they are and be willing to dealing with things instead of shoulding all over the place. Sometimes things are my God's Will, but more often than not, it is my actions which causes me to be out of whack, like not laying my book down and going to bed when it is finished. I can justify a lot of things, but as the slogan says, "It always begins with me."

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Just for today, I will pray for patience and tolerance. I want to get downtown, but with the weather like it is, the best I can do is go to the mall downstairs.

I don't really need to buy anything, I just want to get out of my four walls. My friend Barb and I are trying to patiently wait for a day that is good for both of us to go out to eat, either Chinese Food or Swish Chalet.

As they say, "Patience is a virtue, have it if you can." Another one of those things that my God and I are working on.

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Just for today, I will be grateful. Grateful for family and friends. Grateful for my sobriety. Grateful that I haven't had the extreme pain for the last few months and have general good health. Grateful for this site, which has been a big part of my recovery.
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Just for today, I will celebrate the first day of a new year. I didn't think I would live to reach 50. Didn't find recovery until I was 49. Here I am at 73, still clean and sober. I am going to celebrate by watching the Rose Bowl Parade.

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Just for today, I will accept my disease of addiction and alcoholism (dis-ease), my disability, and my defects of character. I will turn them all over to the God of my understanding and ask for help in today. I love the Serenity Prayer, it is good to stop and say it, listen to the words, and trust the process.

Acceptance is the key, when I am defiant then I block myself from my God's Care and Good Orderly Direction and Divine Orderly Good.

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Just for today, I will ask for clarification and the inner knowing I need in today. The Native American Medicine Wheel, begins in the east and my experience has been that it is shown by the colour yellow. The sun is rising, a new beginning (each day), and stands for clarity and illumination. I learned this in the Recovery House I went to in 1991. An Elder was brought in to show us the meaning of the medicine wheel and it had a big impact on my life.

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In Jamie Sams' book Animal Medicine, the Owl is depicted as Deception, which is really an opposite of clarity and knowing. The Owl is often depicted as Wisdom.

I think of it as our inner knowing being aware that we are often deceiving ourselves, and as it says in the Serenity Prayer, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Just for today, I will surrender all that I have and ask for what I need so I can help and give to others.

I am reminded of a hymn we use to sing in church, "I surrender all."

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Just for today, I will remember that it is through my God's Grace that I am clean and sober in today. My name, JoAnne, means "God's Gracious Gift." He gifted me this program and I try to pass that gift on to others. Just for today, I will remember that I have to pass it on in order to keep it. I share because I care.

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Just for today, I will show love and caring to others, especial the "A" in my life. I will give that same love and care to myself. How can I have compassion for someone, if I can't find it for myself?

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Just for today, I will show love and caring to others, especial the "A" in my life. I will give that same love and care to myself. How can I have compassion for someone, if I can't find it for myself?

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Just for today, I will practice patience and tolerance. My water is off and all of a sudden, my son was willing to come and clean my apartment, so who knows when I will get another offer. ;)

Walked downtown and to the library and my hip gave out. I thought the exercise would be good to stretch it out, but having problems with the pain. I tend to push myself, but have to stop and think, am I really suppose to be doing this?

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Just for today, I will be connect with my God and ask for His good orderly direction. I seem to be torn at the moment as to what to do first, if to do it at all. I am going to have some lunch and take it from there.

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Just for today, I will be unafraid, my thoughts will be on my recovery and do what is good for my health and well being. I will have faith my Higher Power will show me the way.

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Just for today, I will set goals and leave the outcome to my God. Some days we seem to be on a different page, so I need to align myself to His Will.

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Just for today, I will forgive myself. Even though I know it is not good for me, I am sitting here having a piece of white cake with butter icing that my son brought me after he went to the food bank. I can forgive him, because he know I like cake and he went to the food bank because he is out of work. He has a choice of what is there, and he knows that I like cake as much as he does. It was a big slab, so he brought it to me to share. The same could be said about the potato chips he brought, if I get to eat them before he decides to eat my share.

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Just for today, I will accept what is in today. I am glad the sun is shining at the moment, even though it is going to rain later. I had to learn to accept the fact that my body tells me that rain and snow, tell me 3 days in advance that it is on the way.

Acceptance is the key. Things happen, so it is how I deal with things that matter.

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Just for today, I will put my sister into her God's Care. I did a meditation earlier and asked that she be given what she needs according to her God's Will.
Just for today, I will remember that I am powerless, and with my God all things are possible. When I have done a healing prayer session, I say to the person, "This is a contract between your God and mind, and it is up to them as to what you receive, I am but a channel and pray for your healing and that your needs be met.

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When I went to see my sister, she told her daughter and son-in-law that after her operation, she knows where she is going. She said, "I will be going home or to heaven, and she was ready to go to either place. If it is my time to go, it is my time to go." I said, "Yes, and you have a lot of prayer with you when you go into the operation and after you come out."

Called my sister last night to say "Good Night" to her. She found out that she is not having surgery today, but will be in the hospital until such a time it happens, which can be Monday or Tuesday. The waiting is difficult. She is my baby sister and four years younger than me.

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Just for today, I will try not to worry and walk in faith.

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Just for today, I will make a point of looking at the little things, and say thank you. Don't overlook the small things along the way on your journey, because you are looking for the big thing to get your attention.

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Just for today, I will come from a place of love. I will be loving, caring, forgiving, and patient. Loving myself, so I can give true love to others, instead of loving and using others to find love for ourselves.

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Moral/Immoral

Many people think that this is a moral disease, I think it is a thinking disease. It wasn't the true me speaking and acting out in my disease, although I was responsible for them, because I made the decision to use.

I lost my morals, principles, and my life skills as a result of using, although on the whole I thought I was a functioning alcoholic/addict. Quite often those functions were not healthy choices, and I went from a good little Christian girl to a person with a mouth like a long-shore man and looking for love in all the wrong places.

The moral of my story is don't use people, places and things to make me feel better, but go within and connect to my Higher Power and live by the Divine Orderly Good to show me a new way of living. The biggest gift the program me was the ability to find myself. I had lost me, I was very fragmented and totally unemployable and I got to a place where I started to think, stop the world I want to get off, after being a very extroverted and outgoing social person.

Just for today, I will put things in my God's Care. Not just my life, but that of others. My sister is being operated on at noon, and all I can do is pray for her. She is not sure the doctor can repair her heart, but she said today, "If it is my time to go, it is my time to go."

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Just for today, I will let go of resentments. I will pray and ask for it to be removed. Whether it is real or justified, anger is still a danger to me.

I asked my brother-in-law to keep me updated and he never called me. I had to call at 9 a.m. to find that she was a long time in surgery and still in ICU. I don't know why I should be surprised, I was more hurt, but it has happened many times before.

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Just for today, I will let go of resentments. I will pray for the person(s) who aren't doing what I think they should be doing. When I see someone being what I see as abusive, I tend to try to protect the person being abused. I lived it too many years and didn't know I had the right to leave. I was too insecure to step out on my own.

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Just for today, I will continue to pray for healing and help for myself and ask for the same for others, that they get what they need according to the Higher Good of all.

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Just for today, I will ask for the willingness to be willing, to do what I need to do for my health and well being. When I get a mental, emotional, physical, or spiritual block, I will pray and ask for what I need to take down the barriers.

As the skunk says, "If your ego is not your amigo, you know it stinks!" The skunk means respect. Respect the skin your in.

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Just for today, I will look at the whole picture and what is good for all.

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Just for today, I will not take on other peoples stuff. I will acknowledge what is mind and let go of the rest.

HOW it works, Honest, Open Mindedness and Willingness, a slogan that I need to apply to all areas of my life.

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Just for today, I will trust the process. I am a work in progress. Some days are just a little better than others. As a long-timer said many years ago, "I don't have bad days, I just have bad moments in a day."

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One bad apple can spoil the whole bunch and/or barrel!

idiomation.wordpress.com/2013/03/27/one-bad-apple-spoils-the-whole-barrel/

wonderopolis.org/wonder/can-one-bad-apple-spoil-the-bunch/


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I firmly believe that we are products of our environment. If you hang around a bad apple, you can become a bad apple yourself. The say a positive and a negative becomes a negative. The law of science, which has proved true in my own life. We lived next door to three brothers who swore up a storm. They made up new swear words or they said words that made them sound like swear words. When I came into recovery, this little Christian girl who went to church and Sunday School, had a mouth like a long shore man. That is why my sponsor and spiritual adviser for NA said to clean up my body, mind and spirit and that means clean up your mouth.

Just for today, I will practice the principles in all my affairs. I will be honest with me and honest with you.

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Just for today, I will not impatient with myself. As they say, "The body must have needed the rest." When I woke up I was hurting, but once I got up and moved around, ate dinner, and woke up, I find myself painless and able to sit at my computer and post. I lost some hours today, but this is a one day at a time program, some times moment by moment. It is what I put into those moments that count and I shouldn't be impatient and allow myself to go with the flow of the day. Be patient with myself and not try to make things happen. Things will unfold as they should, not always as I would have them.

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The frog means cleansing away the old to make room for the new.

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Just for today, I will go with the flow and allow the day to unfold as it should, not as I would have it be. We had lots of rain yesterday and I bathed my body with A535 extra-strength. It is my hope to get out for some exercise. More will be revealed.

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Just for today, I will show my gratitude. The sun is shining, I was able to walk downtown and I didn't have to wait long for my bus to come home. I grateful that I found some sales. I got an extra-large box of Cornflakes for $3.49. Perogies were 2 for $5. in Denninger's the real deal, potato with onion, and potato with cheese. It is so great when things all come together. A good reason to say, "Thank You, Thank You, Thank You."

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Just for today, I will show my gratitude. The sun is shining, I was able to walk downtown and I didn't have to wait long for my bus to come home. I grateful that I found some sales. I got an extra-large box of Cornflakes for $3.49. Perogies were 2 for $5. in Denninger's the real deal, potato with onion, and potato with cheese. It is so great when things all come together. A good reason to say, "Thank You, Thank You, Thank You."

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Just for today, I will not be contrary, I will be willing to do my God's Will for me in today. Today is my friend Theresa's birthday and I am hoping to meet up with her and treat her for brunch, I sent her an e-mail and she phoned me just now, and we are meeting about 10:30 a.m.

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It is also ground hog day.

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Just for today, I will take the day as it comes.

Managed to go to the meeting after meeting with my friend. I gave her a little gray elephant with pink ears and accessories because she has saved them for years.

Today I gave my chiropractor's appointment to me son because it rained all last night and today and re-booked for next Wednesday. Will wait and see what happens then.

I have only been awake about 3 hours and feel like going back to my bed. I slept yesterday early last night and a few nights lately, and have ended up awake all night and sleeping most of the day away. That is not healthy living and how I want to live in today. I will turn it all over to my Higher Power and put it all into His Hands, as to how He would have it be.

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Just for today, I will accept what is best for my Higher Good. I will ask for help and be willing to listen for the answers. I will be open to God's Will for my life.

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