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Went camping this past weekend.sitting at the lake with fishing pole in hand watching the trees blow softly from the tops of them.Seeing rabbits in the field eating the farmers beets.It was so serene,I said to my self this is serenity.....Nature has a way of finding peace within, if I made the time to enjoy the beauty around me.Sometimes I can be focused on wrong things or people and then serenity is not there.Just relaxing mother nature is a way of serenity for me.There are times, I can be so paient... like waiting for a fish to catch the hook of a dangling hot dog under the water.The excitment when I pull the rode and catch the fish as I was pulling it in ,it was a fighter large ugly cat fish....comes to shore and dashes back in to deeper water still not in yet.That is how I can be with holding onto something ready to surrender then back to deep water to fight with all I have like my soon caught ugly cat fish.Where we were camping it was catch and release...That is how not letting go is for me but once I do tire out and truly surrender I let go and let God..Just as I pull in the ugly cat fish,and take hook from his mouth and realease back into water.Until next time another fisherman comes along.Or for me a problem I am not ready to let go of until I surrender to my HP(God.)Thank you for reading my catch and release...The cat fish was so ugly and he wieghted 14 lbs wow I caught the biggest and ugliest fish of the day.
Thank you for sharing that with us. I really like how you put that.
How many times have I fought that hook until I was exhausted, and then was forced to surrender and then HP pulls the hook out and I am released from the pain the hook caused me.
Wow, you really gave me something to think about it. I don't think I will ever look at Let Go and Let God the same. :)
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"Today's problems can not be solved if we still think the way we did when we created them" -Albert Einstein
all those ugly catfish that I carry around my neck, sometimes, forgetting to release them to my HP. I don't know why I think I am so important that I have to carry what my HP has promised to carry.
Thank you for the fun way of remembering to let it go, and let God!
(((angel))) I love how you put that. As a fisherwoman, I so relate...I too went fishing this weekend The sun was out ... the weather was beautiful, the boat gently rocking with the waves...kind of felt like i was sitting in my HP's rocking chair. I look at things so different after coming to alanon. I try to really grab that serenity and appreciate it and find ways to carry it over in my day to day life. Now I have a different way of looking at letting go! Thanks for sharing that angel. Wonder if the fish I caught was bigger and uglier than yours? LOL!!!!
The cat fish was so ugly and he wieghted 14 lbs wow I caught the biggest and ugliest fish of the day.
And you also let the biggest and ugliest fish go How many times do we reel in that same old fish before we give up and let it go to the depths where it belongs?
I loved this analogy. The next time I reel something in that isn't mine I'm gonna think of your big ugly cat fish..lol! phew!! will make letting go faster and easier. Besides, if you hold on to a catfish those whiskers can and will sting.
My new motto: THAT AIN'T MY FISH!"
love ya Christy
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Thank you so very much for sharing your wonderful experience.. I so agree with you about mother nature...she just has a way of making life look so easy......When I am on the computer I just look out the window, I can always see some wild turkey or a deer walking around...sometimes a fawn will be there and what a smile it brings to my face......there are always bunnies and birds....I love living with nature.....
Thank you so very much for sharing this, it made me think of the wonderful beauty I see in my life everyday....
The sun was out ... the weather was beautiful, the boat gently rocking with the waves...kind of felt like i was sitting in my HP's rocking chair. I look at things so different after coming to alanon. I try to really grab that serenity and appreciate it and find ways to carry it over in my day to day life. Now I have a different way of looking at letting go! Thanks for sharing that angel. Wonder if the fish I caught was bigger and uglier than yours? LOL!!!!
