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Celebrated it as I have the ones before it by trading in my former chip of 37 years and exchanged it for the one I will carry for the next year XXXVIII Mahalo Piha, Deep Gratitude for the AFG for leading me to the doors of recovery and out of the damage of our disease. What ever I have learned is freely given away. ((((hugs))))
Congratulations Jerry - love, love, love it! Keep on keeping on, and know that you have been a bright light in my recovery journey!!! (((Hugs))) to my 'brother from another mother'!!
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Practice the PAUSE...Pause before judging. Pause before assuming. Pause before accusing. Pause whenever you are about to react harshly and you will avoid doing and saying things you will later regret. ~~~~ Lori Deschene
Congratulations and huge thankyous for passing it on. I have a good string of Jerry F pearlers for my own recovery exploration, thanks to your presence on the board. Compulsion of the mind and allergy of the body being but one. Hope your day was peaceful.
a4l I am sitting here reading mip wisdom while over the horizon on my left the sun is climbing above the morning clouds and one of our Hawaiian chants "E Ala E" is sounding in my mind. The chant is about the rising of the sun bringing its bright light into the darkness and having that sink into the ground where the doubt and fear will not touch us. I often do this chant when outside walking the pups as we are brought into the light. MIP is a big part of that light for me and became that in 1979...the darkness started to fall away and HP giggled at the dance my spirit started to do. I am soooo very grateful. (((((hugs)))))
Congratulations ((((Jerry)) on this special anniversary. So glad you're a part of our online Alanon family. Always grateful for your experience, strength and hope. TT
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Surround yourself with people and elements that support your destiny, not just your history.
I'm so very grateful for the celebration of recovery....so often, we tend to bring forward issues, concerns, challenges - I love, love, love to see the miracles in progress that are above me! Happy Sunday to one and all....
Jerry - last week, we had a new gal and she could only cry. A couple suggested to her that she might feel better if she spoke and she tried, but could not. I was sitting 2 down from her, and grabbed her hand over a friend, and said she didn't need to if she couldn't and to just breathe.
She returned today - broad smile, direct eye contact and was able to share. This for me is the gift of recovery....I told her I was so happy to see her smiling face and she genuinely smiled.
Both of my weekend meetings are like a super sized dysfunctional family. We laugh together, cry together and recover together. We have 2 weeks up to 45 years - the majority above 15 years. It's the best gift my HP gave to me - my weekend warrior meetings! (((Hugs)))
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Practice the PAUSE...Pause before judging. Pause before assuming. Pause before accusing. Pause whenever you are about to react harshly and you will avoid doing and saying things you will later regret. ~~~~ Lori Deschene
