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Okay I've got a wife in the house and can give and receive kisses and truthfully we are just like when she left...normalcy. I love her steadfastness and her calm spirit...Mahalo Akua...Thank you God. Going to step up my Family Group attendance because I am aware of a return of an old defect which doesn't feel, sound or act good...wish me ESH. (((HUGS)))
Greetings, Jerry... it is Monday morning here... and freezing cold outside... for me mid-winter is a turning around time... another day above ground. Planning to get to a meeting in the next town this evening... Hawaiiki nui, Hawaiiki roa, Hawaiiki pamamao, we we say over here... for the far side of Polynesia... ...
"Normal" is my preferred state - I try to handle exceptions as they come up.....always seems to be grateful when 'normal' comes! Enjoy your meeting brother!
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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
I get you Bo and that is the normalcy I was referring to. I am surprised that it so easily and quietly returns to nail me. Have to inventory expectations and relationships and just plain trying the program without "working it"....where in the hell did I come up with that one? Morning meeting was a good one now back to working it. (((hugs)))
Jerry, when I was so in it, so deep, my world was falling apart -- and everything seemed so normal. My friends and family could not believe who and what I had become and how I saw all of what was going on as "normal" -- and I actually defended all of it to them. Like I said, my standards had gotten so low, that this so called normal, was killing me. My definition of normal got lower and lower, worse and worse, every single day.
Now, I am healthy and happy...and now I know what normal truly is. It is wonderful.
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Bo
Keep coming back...
God, grant me the serenity...to accept the PEOPLE I cannot change...the courage to change the ONE I can...and the wisdom to know it's ME...
Greetings, Jerry... it is Monday morning here... and freezing cold outside... for me mid-winter is a turning around time... another day above ground. Planning to get to a meeting in the next town this evening... Hawaiiki nui, Hawaiiki roa, Hawaiiki pamamao, we we say over here... for the far side of Polynesia... ...
I love reading Jerry and David talking in their native tongues...David, I re-watched the movie "once were warriors" staring Rena Owen and Tamuera Morrison....great movie about the Maori People.......
Okay I've got a wife in the house and can give and receive kisses and truthfully we are just like when she left...normalcy. I love her steadfastness and her calm spirit...Mahalo Akua...Thank you God. Going to step up my Family Group attendance because I am aware of a return of an old defect which doesn't feel, sound or act good...wish me ESH. (((HUGS)))
(((Jerry))) I am so glad for you....HUGS and ESH any ole time you want it.....