As children bring their broken toys with tears for us to mend
I brought my broken dreams to God because he is my friend

But instead of leaving Him in peace to work alone
I hung around and tried to help in ways that were my own

At last I snatched them back and cried
"How can you be so slow ?"
"My child," He said. "What could I do ? You never let them go."

Author Unknown

MY PHAVORITE QUOTES

"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool
than to speak up - and remove all doubt."
(A. Lincoln)

"We thought that we could find an easier, softer way.
But we could not."
(Page 58 of the AA 'Big Book')

"Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement
as it is of self-exaltation"
(Dag Hammarskjold)

(It follows that self-abasement is arrogance
just as much as is self-exaltation - Philo)

"What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)

"Although the world is full of suffering,
it is also full of the overcoming of it."
(Helen Keller)

"Love is something if you give away,
you end up having more."
(Malvina Reynolds)

"Love thy neighbor as thyself,
but choose your neighbor."
(Louis Beal)

"Patience is needed with everyone,
but first of all with ourselves."
(St. Francis de Sales)

"We discovered the best possible source 
of emotional stability to be God Himself.
We found that dependence upon His perfect justice,
forgiveness, and love was healthy,
and that it would work where nothing else would.
(Bill W. - Co-Founder of AA)

"The secret of success is constancy of purpose."
(Benjamin Disraeli)

"When a man points a finger at someone else,
he should remember that three of his fingers
are pointing at himself."
(Louis Nizer)

"Ever deepening humility, accompanied by an ever greater willingness to accept and to act upon clear-cut obligations -
these are truly our touchstones for all growth
in the life of the spirit.  They hold up to us
the very essence of right being and right doing.
It is by them that we are enabled to find and do God's will."
(Bill W. - Co-Founder of AA)

MY PHAVORITE SAYINGS

"What the caterpillar calls death, God calls a butterfly"

(And what a student calls Graduation,
the Teacher calls Commencement - Philo)

"If someone is always getting your goat,
move your goat!"
(Just a suggestion - Philo)

"The best way to avoid having to forgive someone
is to not pass judgment upon him in the first place."
(Philo)

SELECTIONS FROM A.C.I.M.

"You may think that you are responsible
for what you do, but not for what you think.
The truth is that you are responsible for what you think,
because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice.
What you do comes from what you think."
(Page 25 of 'A Course In Miracles')

"If God's will for you is complete peace and joy,
unless you experience only this
you must be refusing to acknowledge His Will."
(Page 133 of 'A Course In Miracles')

"I will not trade miracles for grievances.
I want only what belongs to me.
God has established miracles as my right."
(Lesson 77 of 'A Course In Miracles')

"I am responsible for what I see.
I choose the feeling I experience,
and decide upon the goal I would achieve.
And everything that seems to happen to me
I ask for, and receive as I have asked."
(Page 418 of 'A Course In Miracles')

SERENITY PRAYER

God, grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change,
courage to change the things I can,
and the wisdom to know the difference.

Reinhold Niebuhr

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