BreakingGlass, No offense meant......but you will continue to feel stuck until you spiral downward to your bottom! Everyone has their own bottom. When and if you reach your bottom you will have no where else to look...... but up!
After reading your posts I have pondered the following:
You don't have a problem. You have a solution you don't like.
Learn to give from your overflow rather that from your reserve. This is self care, learn to let go of burdens you were never meant to carry. Learn to ask, “What is the best thing for me?”
You can only love yourself as much as you believe you are lovable.
An expectation is a premeditated resentment.
Any time you are in resentment, you are not taking care of yourself. You are blaming someone else for something you need to do.
The higher the expectations, the lower the serenity. Try to keep your boundaries high, your expectations low, and your heart open.
Change can only come from a position of acceptance.
What ever your heart clings to, that is your God.
Be in nature and discover how much God loves you, “Pause, so you can hear the rabbits.”
God helps those who don’t try to take over His work.
I cannot give other people the status of my Higher Power. I once knew a down and out recovering alcoholic whose Higher Power was the coffee pot. It won't work......if you don't work the program!
My Higher Power is God. I have found that so many people confuse Christianity with organized religions, but it's NOT! Organized religions is manmade. Christianity
is a personal one-to-one relationship with our Lord God Almighty!
When all about you is black with gloom,
And all you feel is pending doom.
When your bones are racked with grim despair -
When every breath is a gasp for air.
Keep on going, though you need to grope,
For around the bend is a ray of hope.
A ray of hope is perhaps all that's left,
As your will to live has been bereft.
You've lost it all, it's just no use!
You can end it all, you need no excuse.
But throw away that piece of rope,
And give yourself a chance of hope.
Just give yourself another day,
Brushing aside what your thoughts may say.
This is your life and you can make a new start,
By ignoring the brain - just follow the heart.
Taking baby steps in order to cope,
And minute by minute you'll build on your hope.
Build on your hope,. one day at a time,
Though the road be steep and hard to climb.
The hurts of the past - they should be dead.
The fears of the future are all in your head.
Just live in the present and refuse to mope
Your life will sparkle for you're living in hope.
Hope by Brian Quinn