Prayers for Our Addicts Who Still Suffer..Part 4 - SoberRecovery : Alcoholism Drug Addiction Help and Information

**Ann** · 08-03-2009, 11:16 AM

And the prayers continue...

http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/...rt-3-a-20.html (Prayers for Our Addicts Who Still Suffer...Part 3)

**Ann** · 08-03-2009, 11:20 AM

Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart
and try to love the questions themselves ...
Don't search for the answers,
which could not be given to you now,
because you would not be able to live them.
And the point is, to live everything.
Live the questions now.
Perhaps then, someday far in the future,
you will gradually, without even noticing it,
live your way into the answer.

rainer maria rilke

Fluttering · 08-03-2009, 10:42 PM

Thank You Angel Ann for keeping us going

Lord, give me the courage to admit my mistakes, apologize, and go on. Keep me from getting stuck in my denial, despair, and, worst of all, fear of trying again. In your remolding hands, God of grace, failures can become feedback and mistakes can simply be lessons in what doesn't work. Remind me that you don't expect error-free perfection, you just look for me to do my best.

**Ann** · 08-04-2009, 02:51 AM

There is some kiss we want
with our whole lives,
the touch of Spirit on the body.

Seawater begs the pearl
to break its shell.

And the lily, how passionately
it needs some wild Darling!

At night, I open the window
and ask the moon to come
and press its face into mine.
Breathe into me.

Close the language-door,
and open the love-window.

The moon won't use the door,
only the window.

sufi mystic - jelaluddin rumi - 13th century

Rusty Zipper · 08-04-2009, 03:21 AM

kisses, pearls, lilly's out to you today dear annn...

i can send you a door,

just the moon has to do it's thing...

xxooxxoo

indigo · 08-04-2009, 05:19 AM

rumi always makes my heart sing Ann.

Fluttering · 08-04-2009, 07:18 AM

God give me the joy in the common things
In the dawn that lures, the eve that sings.

In the new grass sparkling after rain,
In the late wind's wild and weird refrain;
In the sprintime's spacious field of gold,
In the precious light by winter doled.

God, give me joy in the love of friends,
In their dear home talk as summer ends,
In the songs of children, unrestrained;
In the sober wisdom age has gained.

God, give me joy in the tasks that press,
in the memories that burn and bless,
In the thought that life has love to spend,
In the faith that God's at journey's end.

God, give me hope for each day that springs,
God give me joy in the common things.
~ Thomas Curtis Clark

**Ann** · 08-04-2009, 07:41 AM

I love Rumi too, and I love each of you for making me smile.

IO Storm · 08-04-2009, 02:00 PM

Thank you, everyone, today, for being a part of my life. :ghug2:

indigo · 08-05-2009, 02:09 AM

IO I second that motion.

Rusty Zipper · 08-05-2009, 03:21 AM

If you got the notion,

I second that emotion...

it's Smokey!

**Ann** · 08-05-2009, 03:47 AM

Awww, great big group hug to all my light sharers here.

Wishing you all happiness today...just watch out for those cow paddies

May the winds bring us happiness.
May the rivers carry happiness to us.
May the plants give us happiness.
May night and day yield us happiness.
May the dust of the earth bring us happiness.
May the heavens give us happiness.
May the trees give us happiness.
May the sun pour down happiness.
May the cows yield us happiness.

taittirya aranyaka

**hydrogirl** · 08-05-2009, 05:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by IO Storm

Thank you, everyone, today, for being a part of my life. :ghug2:

I must agree!!!!! Peace, serenity, love and light to all.

Hugs and prayers, HG

Fluttering · 08-05-2009, 11:22 AM

Bless our differences, O Lord. and let us love across all barriers; the walls we build of color, and culture, and language.

Let us turn our eyes upward and remember that you who made us all, live and breathe and move within us, untouched by our petty distinctions. Let us love you as you are for you love us just as we are.

**Ann** · 08-06-2009, 02:24 AM

Holy Spirit,
Giving life to all life,
Moving all creatures,
Root of all things,
Washing them clean,
Wiping out their mistakes,
Healing their wounds,
You are our true life,
Luminous, wonderful,
Awakening the heart from its ancient sleep.

hildegarde of bingen - 12 century

Fluttering · 08-06-2009, 11:21 AM

O Lord, Hear my prayer for all who are in trouble this day.

Encourage those who are finding it difficult to believe in the future and doubting the truth fo your existence or the validity of your promises.

let your hope fill their hearts as they recall all your past fatihfulness.

Bring wise friends intotheir lives who have long known the reality of your love.

Let them be assured that you can take care of every need, no matter how large or small.

**Ann** · 08-07-2009, 02:29 AM

Ojibwa Prayer

Oh Great Spirit, whose voice I hear in the winds
And whose breath gives life to everyone,
Hear me.
I come to you as one of your many children;
I am weak... I am small...I need your wisdom
and your strength.
Let me walk in beauty, and make my eyes ever
behold the red and purple sunsets.
Make my hands respect the things you have made,
and make my ears sharp so I may hear your voice.
Make me wise, so that I may understand what you
have taught my people and
The lessons you have hidden in each leaf and each rock.
I ask for wisdom and strength,
Not to be superior to my brothers, but to be able
to fight my greatest enemy, myself.
Make me ever ready to come before you with
clean hands and a straight eye,
So as life fades away as a fading sunset,
My spirit may come to you without shame.

indigo · 08-07-2009, 03:16 AM

As always today you have lifted me Ann & everyone thank you.

Rusty Zipper · 08-07-2009, 03:29 AM

[QUOTE]and make my ears sharp so I may hear your voice.[QUOTE]

Ear's Cleaned, Cotton Out, and Hearing Aid Cranked!!!

**Ann** · 08-07-2009, 03:32 AM

Quote:

Let me walk in beauty, and make my eyes ever
behold the red and purple sunsets.

Eyes wide open and bifocals cleaned.

Rusty Zipper · 08-07-2009, 03:35 AM

**Ann** · 08-07-2009, 04:00 AM

Sharing my sunrise. I've learned to look and pay attention to the beauty.

Fluttering · 08-07-2009, 09:24 AM

Beautiful Ann..Thank You for sharing that

IO Storm · 08-07-2009, 02:23 PM

The sky is a beautiful redhead, too...

Fluttering · 08-09-2009, 02:15 PM

Went to a spiritual retreat this past wqeekend..At the sobriety countdown the oldest member had 32 years and the youngest was 1 day... The one with one day stood at the podium with the oldest member and shared his thoughts on hope and thanked all of us for keeping the doors open for him.. It was a very moving tribute to all who continue to carry the message and keep the candle of hope burning

08-03-2009, 11:16 AM	#1 (permalink)
Ann Forum Leader Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: By The Lake Posts: 25,173	Prayers for Our Addicts Who Still Suffer..Part 4 And the prayers continue... http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/...rt-3-a-20.html (Prayers for Our Addicts Who Still Suffer...Part 3) __________________ “Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” ~Winnie the Pooh~

08-03-2009, 11:20 AM	#2 (permalink)
Ann Forum Leader Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: By The Lake Posts: 25,173	Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves ... Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer. rainer maria rilke __________________ “Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” ~Winnie the Pooh~

08-03-2009, 10:42 PM	#3 (permalink)
Fluttering Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Fluttering About Posts: 3,408	Thank You Angel Ann for keeping us going Lord, give me the courage to admit my mistakes, apologize, and go on. Keep me from getting stuck in my denial, despair, and, worst of all, fear of trying again. In your remolding hands, God of grace, failures can become feedback and mistakes can simply be lessons in what doesn't work. Remind me that you don't expect error-free perfection, you just look for me to do my best. __________________

08-04-2009, 02:51 AM	#4 (permalink)
Ann Forum Leader Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: By The Lake Posts: 25,173	There is some kiss we want with our whole lives, the touch of Spirit on the body. Seawater begs the pearl to break its shell. And the lily, how passionately it needs some wild Darling! At night, I open the window and ask the moon to come and press its face into mine. Breathe into me. Close the language-door, and open the love-window. The moon won't use the door, only the window. sufi mystic - jelaluddin rumi - 13th century __________________ “Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” ~Winnie the Pooh~

08-04-2009, 03:21 AM	#5 (permalink)
Rusty Zipper Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: my room in ct. Posts: 34,764	kisses, pearls, lilly's out to you today dear annn... i can send you a door, just the moon has to do it's thing... xxooxxoo __________________ *Rule 62*

08-04-2009, 05:19 AM	#6 (permalink)
indigo Community Greeter Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Mid-Life Express Posts: 9,928	rumi always makes my heart sing Ann. __________________ When you judge others, you do not define them, you define yourself." Namasté

08-04-2009, 07:18 AM	#7 (permalink)
Fluttering Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Fluttering About Posts: 3,408	God give me the joy in the common things In the dawn that lures, the eve that sings. In the new grass sparkling after rain, In the late wind's wild and weird refrain; In the sprintime's spacious field of gold, In the precious light by winter doled. God, give me joy in the love of friends, In their dear home talk as summer ends, In the songs of children, unrestrained; In the sober wisdom age has gained. God, give me joy in the tasks that press, in the memories that burn and bless, In the thought that life has love to spend, In the faith that God's at journey's end. God, give me hope for each day that springs, God give me joy in the common things. ~ Thomas Curtis Clark __________________

08-04-2009, 07:41 AM	#8 (permalink)
Ann Forum Leader Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: By The Lake Posts: 25,173	I love Rumi too, and I love each of you for making me smile. __________________ “Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” ~Winnie the Pooh~

08-04-2009, 02:00 PM	#9 (permalink)
IO Storm IO Storm Wheel Of Fortune Champion! Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Southern California Posts: 18,175 Blog Entries: 2	Thank you, everyone, today, for being a part of my life. :ghug2: __________________ "God holds me still in the eye of the Storm"

08-05-2009, 02:09 AM	#10 (permalink)
indigo Community Greeter Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Mid-Life Express Posts: 9,928	IO I second that motion. __________________ When you judge others, you do not define them, you define yourself." Namasté

08-05-2009, 03:21 AM	#11 (permalink)
Rusty Zipper Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: my room in ct. Posts: 34,764	If you got the notion, I second that emotion... it's Smokey! __________________ *Rule 62*

08-05-2009, 03:47 AM	#12 (permalink)
Ann Forum Leader Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: By The Lake Posts: 25,173	Awww, great big group hug to all my light sharers here. Wishing you all happiness today...just watch out for those cow paddies May the winds bring us happiness. May the rivers carry happiness to us. May the plants give us happiness. May night and day yield us happiness. May the dust of the earth bring us happiness. May the heavens give us happiness. May the trees give us happiness. May the sun pour down happiness. May the cows yield us happiness. taittirya aranyaka __________________ “Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” ~Winnie the Pooh~

08-05-2009, 11:22 AM	#14 (permalink)
Fluttering Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Fluttering About Posts: 3,408	Bless our differences, O Lord. and let us love across all barriers; the walls we build of color, and culture, and language. Let us turn our eyes upward and remember that you who made us all, live and breathe and move within us, untouched by our petty distinctions. Let us love you as you are for you love us just as we are. __________________

08-06-2009, 02:24 AM	#15 (permalink)
Ann Forum Leader Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: By The Lake Posts: 25,173	Holy Spirit, Giving life to all life, Moving all creatures, Root of all things, Washing them clean, Wiping out their mistakes, Healing their wounds, You are our true life, Luminous, wonderful, Awakening the heart from its ancient sleep. hildegarde of bingen - 12 century __________________ “Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” ~Winnie the Pooh~

08-06-2009, 11:21 AM	#16 (permalink)
Fluttering Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Fluttering About Posts: 3,408	O Lord, Hear my prayer for all who are in trouble this day. Encourage those who are finding it difficult to believe in the future and doubting the truth fo your existence or the validity of your promises. let your hope fill their hearts as they recall all your past fatihfulness. Bring wise friends intotheir lives who have long known the reality of your love. Let them be assured that you can take care of every need, no matter how large or small. __________________

08-07-2009, 02:29 AM	#17 (permalink)
Ann Forum Leader Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: By The Lake Posts: 25,173	Ojibwa Prayer Oh Great Spirit, whose voice I hear in the winds And whose breath gives life to everyone, Hear me. I come to you as one of your many children; I am weak... I am small...I need your wisdom and your strength. Let me walk in beauty, and make my eyes ever behold the red and purple sunsets. Make my hands respect the things you have made, and make my ears sharp so I may hear your voice. Make me wise, so that I may understand what you have taught my people and The lessons you have hidden in each leaf and each rock. I ask for wisdom and strength, Not to be superior to my brothers, but to be able to fight my greatest enemy, myself. Make me ever ready to come before you with clean hands and a straight eye, So as life fades away as a fading sunset, My spirit may come to you without shame. __________________ “Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” ~Winnie the Pooh~

08-07-2009, 03:16 AM	#18 (permalink)
indigo Community Greeter Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Mid-Life Express Posts: 9,928	As always today you have lifted me Ann & everyone thank you. __________________ When you judge others, you do not define them, you define yourself." Namasté

08-07-2009, 03:29 AM	#19 (permalink)
Rusty Zipper Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: my room in ct. Posts: 34,764	[QUOTE]and make my ears sharp so I may hear your voice.[QUOTE] Ear's Cleaned, Cotton Out, and Hearing Aid Cranked!!! __________________ *Rule 62*

08-07-2009, 03:35 AM	#21 (permalink)
Rusty Zipper Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: my room in ct. Posts: 34,764	__________________ *Rule 62*

08-07-2009, 04:00 AM	#22 (permalink)
Ann Forum Leader Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: By The Lake Posts: 25,173	Sharing my sunrise. I've learned to look and pay attention to the beauty. __________________ “Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” ~Winnie the Pooh~

08-07-2009, 09:24 AM	#23 (permalink)
Fluttering Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Fluttering About Posts: 3,408	Beautiful Ann..Thank You for sharing that __________________

08-07-2009, 02:23 PM	#24 (permalink)
IO Storm IO Storm Wheel Of Fortune Champion! Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Southern California Posts: 18,175 Blog Entries: 2	The sky is a beautiful redhead, too... __________________ "God holds me still in the eye of the Storm"

08-09-2009, 02:15 PM	#25 (permalink)
Fluttering Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Fluttering About Posts: 3,408	Went to a spiritual retreat this past wqeekend..At the sobriety countdown the oldest member had 32 years and the youngest was 1 day... The one with one day stood at the podium with the oldest member and shared his thoughts on hope and thanked all of us for keeping the doors open for him.. It was a very moving tribute to all who continue to carry the message and keep the candle of hope burning __________________

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