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Nature Girl
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: By The Lake
Posts: 60,328
Hands off the addict. Put your hands in the air and take a giant step back and keep your hands off the addict.
Stop second guessing tomorrow!
Administrator
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: CA
Posts: 10,681
There is also the old addage about putting your ducks in a row...now the key to this program is to stick to your own ducks.
Any attempt to line up someone else's ducks could (be warned) cause a riot. And it wouldn't be pretty...all those webbed feet, feathers and flapping are the stuff that nightmares are made of....
JT
Any attempt to line up someone else's ducks could (be warned) cause a riot. And it wouldn't be pretty...all those webbed feet, feathers and flapping are the stuff that nightmares are made of....
JT
Administrator
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: CA
Posts: 10,681
I'd like to thank the members of the Adademy, my Uncle Bosco, Julio-the dealer that got me here, Mrs. Katzenbaum from second grade, my dentist Dr. Lewis, the Don't Quit girls, Cameron, oh, Cameron, Mikey, Bill Gates, Time-Warner, the Mod-Squad, Lola my massusse, Ricky my stylist, my psychiatrist Dr. Bumba, the makers of Lithium....
However, none of this happens without YOU.
Jon
However, none of this happens without YOU.
Jon
Member
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: North Vancouver, British Columbia
Posts: 1,714
Nature Girl
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: By The Lake
Posts: 60,328
Pernell Johnson (you didn't know I kept this did ya Pernell 
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Please Untie the Nots
Dear God:
Please untie the nots that are invading my mind, my heart and my life.
Please remove the have nots, the can nots and the do nots that invade my mind.
Please erase the will nots, may nots, might nots that invade my heart.
Please release me from the could nots, would nots and should nots that invade my life.
Most of all, dear God, I ask that you remove from my mind, my heart and my life all of the am nots that I have allowed to hold me back.
Please erase from my mind the thought that i am not good enough
Please remove from my heart that I am not loved enough.
Please untie from my life everything that I clutch that supports the belief that I am not enough.
Today, dear God, I come to you humbly and reverently asking that you untie, eliminate and erase all of the nots that have invaded every aspect of my life.
For your mercy and your grace I am so grateful.
Let these words take on the presence of the Holy Spirit to become living conditions in my life.
And So It Is!!!
Dear God:
Please untie the nots that are invading my mind, my heart and my life.
Please remove the have nots, the can nots and the do nots that invade my mind.
Please erase the will nots, may nots, might nots that invade my heart.
Please release me from the could nots, would nots and should nots that invade my life.
Most of all, dear God, I ask that you remove from my mind, my heart and my life all of the am nots that I have allowed to hold me back.
Please erase from my mind the thought that i am not good enough
Please remove from my heart that I am not loved enough.
Please untie from my life everything that I clutch that supports the belief that I am not enough.
Today, dear God, I come to you humbly and reverently asking that you untie, eliminate and erase all of the nots that have invaded every aspect of my life.
For your mercy and your grace I am so grateful.
Let these words take on the presence of the Holy Spirit to become living conditions in my life.
And So It Is!!!
Member
Join Date: May 2003
Location: El Paso, Tx
Posts: 5,862
When I first landed here over 3 years ago my girl Paulie used to have a signature line I thought was the most clever thing I had ever seen as a newbie to recovery. Still is my favorite to this day. Little did I know....
"It's none of my business what people think of me"... love it and because of that little diddy line, I have a very good friend today.
"It's none of my business what people think of me"... love it and because of that little diddy line, I have a very good friend today.
Nature Girl
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: By The Lake
Posts: 60,328
Also from 2003, wisdom by Margo...
On Friday I was 50 miles from home on a trip I have to take each week. I'm driving along at 70 mph and I hear this really weird noise. I pull over and walk around the back and both tail pipes and the muffler are dragging on the road 
My first instinct was to call you-know-who (he's a mechanic, after all), but instead I got hold of some wire coat hangers, straightened them out, jerry-rigged the whole thing back together, and got home no problem! I was so proud of myself for being self-reliant. I really believe that we are all way stronger than we give ourselves credit for sometimes.
My first instinct was to call you-know-who (he's a mechanic, after all), but instead I got hold of some wire coat hangers, straightened them out, jerry-rigged the whole thing back together, and got home no problem! I was so proud of myself for being self-reliant. I really believe that we are all way stronger than we give ourselves credit for sometimes.
'Round and 'Round I Go....
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: New York, NY
Posts: 478
When staying with the addict becomes more painful than the thought of leaving the addict...then and only then will I be ready to do what is best for me.
Hug giver-outer!
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: The State of Possibilities
Posts: 533
My favorite quote and something that helps me when the going gets tough: It's my "two day" solution:
(this was given to me by Ann) It has saved me many times and gotten me through a very bad day!
"The difference between a bad day and a good day is a couple days!"
Hug giver-outer!
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: The State of Possibilities
Posts: 533
The other quote that has gotten me through and that I use a lot:
And that's the truth!
"You cannot control your addict's behavior; you can only control how much it controls YOU"!
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