Wednesday, 22 March 2006

JUST FOR TODAY
Mood:  lazy
Topic: staying sober
For today let us remember that all we have is right now. We can not go back and redo yesterday and we can not move to tomorrow . We have to live each day as it come. Yesterday I made plans to do a million things and did none of them but I did a lot of very interesting things that I did not plan for.You ask me should we not plans well maybe a little but then I think we should go with the flow of life .
THIS JUST CAME IN MY EMAIL....It goes so well with what I was talking about I'm going to add it to this posting
Live attentively.
The Buddhists call this mindfulness. All it means is to be aware of life. Hear the silence of the snow. Feel the cracks in the earth. Look into one another?s eyes. Pay attention to every single moment and that moment alone. Feel it. Take it into your bones. Let it transform you. Learn to let go.
Start to simplify your life. Simplify your possessions, your thoughts, your desires, your expectations. When you can let go, your arms are open and ready to receive all the good things God longs to give you. Develop intimacy with God.
Gather in yourself a phrase or thought from Your Program(Like ..Live and Let live or God grant me the serentity..God help me through this day . Let the thought or phrase filter through your heart and mind throughout the day. Say it when you stand in the grocery line, when you eat your lunch, when you scrape ice off your car. Let it settle deeply in your heart so that it can work from within to bring you into closer intimacy with God.
...............Mamaisan

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Tuesday, 21 March 2006

A thought or two to live by
Topic: staying sober

Here are a few quotes that I have learn to live my life by

Acceptance is the answer to all my problems today .When I am disturbed it is because I find some person, place, thing or situation .. Some fact of my life unacceptable to me and I can find no serenity until I except that person.place , thing or situation as being exactly the way it is suppose to be at this moment ...Nothing, absolutely nothing, happens in God's world by mistake...

Courage is not the absent of fear, but the ability to overcome it

God will not close one door without opening another

I have said the serenity prayer every day for the last 30 year . Each and every day I have ask God to get me thou the day and at the end I say Thank You ..Mamaisan

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Friday, 17 March 2006

Mood:  lazy
Topic: staying sober
In my email today someone send a few words from Ralph Marston ..I love his words they come very to me and my soul...
A little progress~
If you're not able to make a lot of progress today, then make a
little progress. If you're not able to make just a little progress,
then you're really not committed to success.
But that's ok, because you can make that commitment anytime you
choose. Right now would be an excellent choice.

What it takes is some focused effort in the direction of your goal. A
small effort is just fine, as long as you keep it going.

For when you make a little progress, and then make a little more, it
begins to quickly add up. Whatever the objective may be, small,
consistent steps can surely and steadily get you there.

And the great thing is, a little progress is well within your reach.
What's even better is that once you make that little bit of progress,
you'll be anxious to make a little more.

In this steady, focused manner, the biggest dream you can dream is
something you will surely attain. Just make a little progress, then
keep making a little more.

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Thursday, 16 March 2006

From the Boston Globe
Mood:  loud
Topic: staying sober
REFLECTION OF THE DAY ....One person with belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.
- John Stuart Mill
British philospher & economist (1806-1873)...I can do anything if I just believe I can... Mamaisan

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Wednesday, 15 March 2006

Mood:  cool
Topic: staying sober
Today I would like to share with you a web page that tell it like it is . It is one man sharing his story with us It really doen't matter where you come from the story is alway the same ..That is why I like to share store that are from other places then mine...Trapped in the bottle
1st January, 2000. I staggered home from a new year's party in the early hours of the morning. I barely remembered having one peg too many while stumbling at the door. My wife opened the door, I took one step inside and fell unconscious at her feet. This was the beginning of the worst downfall in my life.

Hello, I am Pratik, age 35, a businessman. I was an alcohol addict until 2 years ago, and I want to tell my story, hoping that people would learn from my mistakes and join the path to recovery, the path to a peaceful and healthy life! Trapped in the bottle

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Monday, 13 March 2006

Going my way
Mood:  energetic
Topic: staying sober
It is a good day for me today, for days I have been trying to change the look of this blog. For some reason tripod wasn't working right but as you can see we got it done. I hope you like the new look Mamaisan

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Saturday, 25 June 2005

ADAPTING
Mood:  energetic
Topic: staying sober

This photograph was take in the back of Books-a-Million in Port Richey Fla right off a busy highway US19..It is a small pond which is fenced and the birds are use it as a rookery. I am always amazes how nature will adapted to what is around then. Finding a spaced to live in a world that is changing to beat them out.They must find a way to survive or they will die. As an Alcoholic we have to learn to adapted too or die. I must say that I do so with great reluctance because I hate change, but change I must or die. As you drive down the highway 19 you will see bird that are nesting in the telephone poles high about us . The Osprey and the Red-shouldered hawk there is a water way closes by in which they can fish and in this time of year there are young,they know about change... doI.In the world of nature those species that adapted live. I must learn better to adapted for there are things in my life that I can not change like the bird who can not change man and his ways.

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Tuesday, 21 June 2005

Were has all the time gone
Mood:  rushed
Topic: staying sober
Sometime there is not enough time in the day. It started last night when I broke my glasses. I got up at nine thinking that I would just go and get new frames. I was going to get a eye exam next month but God saw it another way. So this morning when the girl says she could get an eyes exam and new glasses by tonight I was very happy but it did take all day to do it. I had so many plans for the day but god saw it another way.. You aren't going to do any of the things that you thought you would do. You are not even going to have the dinner that you plan. I now have new glases which I am very gratefull for,I had a great dinner in which I didn't have to buy or cook because my daughter friend came by and brought it for us. So I guess this is what HP wanted for me today and I got just what I needed and it was good ....Mamaisan

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Thursday, 9 June 2005

I guess God wants me to learn how to handle crisis
Mood:  sad
Topic: staying sober
This is boo .. This is the grandchild of my son girl friend .. She is going to have surgery next month she was born with herotaxy syndrome, which means that her heart is on the wrong side. My son who has never been very good with small children fell in love with this child.. Boo will be 2yr old on the 23July and this surgery on the 11July will be her fourth. They are going to take vein from her liver to make the flow of blood to the lungs better. Mike (my son) has always put on a tough front but I know that he is very worried for her .The Doctor said that they feel the surgery will go ok but like any surgery there are dangers .. Mike say that Boo is a big time fighter .. I have met her only once and she stole my heart .. I am going to go up maybe just before the surgery or just after . They live Webster Ma. I live in Port Richey Fl... Now the great thing about working for airline is that I can fly for free . It will be stand by but there is a tpa bos direct on Song that I can get and I can be there in a few hour if I have too. I will let everyone know how this turn out ..
We are still working on Cody custody this I am afraid will take us all summer .. I am letting go and letting God help us.. Boy Howdy I am not in control of anything .. Love to all

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Wednesday, 8 June 2005

It hard when you are paralyzed to do anything
Mood:  chatty
Topic: staying sober
When a emotional crisis hits me I am just like the rabbit I freezes. Every nerve in my body is screaming, my tummy is burning, my brain shut down and I just don't know what to do. Wishing that I am not that way is not going to change it.If I sit still and just breathe it helps a little. Most of the time in a crisis situation I don't get to sit still I have to act and act badly is what happens. I'm not sure if you can relearn a responses I am trying to, I am a better that I used to be but not much.It helps that I now know now what is happening and that give me some release, before I would drink to get rid of all these feeling. Like many of us that worked for a while but in the end the alcohol only made it worst.I will take being paralyzed by emotion over being drunk.I will keep trying to slow down and practice breathing....Maybe after I am sober 50 yr I will learn to handle crisis better, who knows!
These last few days I am brought back to how much I am not in control of anything ..Frist of all this is not my child but my grand child . It is my daughter but she must make her own decision on what she is going to do ..I must be a comfort to her and help her with what I can , but how and when she make a decision is her life and not mine ..I am not in control of her X husband either and I don't understand why he keep doing what he is doing .So I am going to take care of me and only me and let god handle the rest...Mamaisan

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