Good Morning Bob B, Just wanted to acknowledge and thank you for the posts that you put out there that are so inspirational and are providing me with a dose of recovery and solution. Hope you and yours are doing well today. We are all doing good (me and the Girls)...my oldest graduates from HS next week and my youngest from 8th grade. I probably won't make it to Mass tomorrow but am going with my Mom and StepDad to the Baptist church they attend...I am considering making an appointment with a Priest at the Parish I am a member of for a f 2 f confession plus maybe a discussion period. I did that so long ago and it was so beneficial, come to find out that particular Priest was a member of AA but I didn't want any of that 15 years ago...now, he left the Priesthood and is married to one of the gals that attends a women's stag I go to...small world! Things are great today, because you see, I woke up sober and clean and plan to stay that way til my head hits the pillow tonight and then I get to do it all over again tomorrow by the Grace of God! Life is good! Peace & Serenity, VWGirl PS-We finally have some summer like weather here in our little beach town in SoCal...it is has been nothin' but June gloom for awhile..HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND, my friend!
geri, for quite a while now i've been working on taking and living one day at a time. just concentrating on living in the day. and i have found one day, just one day, to be totally sufficient. it's just becoming amazing to me how happy i can be just taking care of of myself and those i need to take care of simply and very simply one day at a time and making the most of that one day.
it's like taking life in little, bity bites. and really chewing them. and really absorbing the nutrients of the day. it is so very satisfying.
and, i am finding, that way i can really enjoy each person i encounter during the day. from the people if work with, to my family members, to those i bump into in the elevevator, to those in the grocery line, etc. i'm practicing trying to make a point to be totally present to each person i encounter or talk to. fully present to them -- one at a time.
that's a great idea about making an appointment. i hope you are able to do it. you know, your daughters may just well follow you in time. what a blessing.
i've been starting my day with moring daily mass. 30 minutes. it's on the way to work. that way, i start the day with scripture and meditation, and giving thanks, in community with others. but it sets the tone for the day and i'm able to related back to my morning all during the day. helps me stay in prayer. and i can better focus on just that day. it slows me down and calms me down.
actually, it's interesting how many of those who go to daily mass are alcoholics in recovery.
it's amazing how complete mass is -- we call to mind our sins at the start, we admit that there are things we have done that we are not proud of and regret and things that we should have done -- and we ask the whole worldwide church to pray for us, we read two readings -- one from the epistles and one from the gospel, we receive jesus in the eucharist, and at the end we are sent into the world to bring to the world what we have received ("this mass is ended, go in peace to love and serve the lord"). wow !
and there is such order. the scriptural readings from the bible are ordered by the seasons of the church year and have been for centuries. advent, christmas, lent, easter, ordinary time. and, by going to daily and sunday mass, the entire bible is read and studied and meditated one every 3 years -- the gospels every two. such order. and beauty -- candles, incense, rosaries, flowers, memorable statues to meditate upon, memorial of the saints who have gone before us with the same struggles we have experienced, colors that have meaning during the seasons of the years, holy water, sacramentals, the central cross with the corpus depiction of christ -- the suffering servant, stained glass windows depicting the significant events in the life of christ, devotion to mary, the stations of the cross, and -- of course, the reserved eucharist and confessional. there are so many aids to prayer and meditation and a lively spiritual life !
come back, geri. come home. the door is open. and bring your daughters !
and be not afraid.
it's like taking life in little, bity bites. and really chewing them. and really absorbing the nutrients of the day. it is so very satisfying.
and, i am finding, that way i can really enjoy each person i encounter during the day. from the people if work with, to my family members, to those i bump into in the elevevator, to those in the grocery line, etc. i'm practicing trying to make a point to be totally present to each person i encounter or talk to. fully present to them -- one at a time.
that's a great idea about making an appointment. i hope you are able to do it. you know, your daughters may just well follow you in time. what a blessing.
i've been starting my day with moring daily mass. 30 minutes. it's on the way to work. that way, i start the day with scripture and meditation, and giving thanks, in community with others. but it sets the tone for the day and i'm able to related back to my morning all during the day. helps me stay in prayer. and i can better focus on just that day. it slows me down and calms me down.
actually, it's interesting how many of those who go to daily mass are alcoholics in recovery.
it's amazing how complete mass is -- we call to mind our sins at the start, we admit that there are things we have done that we are not proud of and regret and things that we should have done -- and we ask the whole worldwide church to pray for us, we read two readings -- one from the epistles and one from the gospel, we receive jesus in the eucharist, and at the end we are sent into the world to bring to the world what we have received ("this mass is ended, go in peace to love and serve the lord"). wow !
and there is such order. the scriptural readings from the bible are ordered by the seasons of the church year and have been for centuries. advent, christmas, lent, easter, ordinary time. and, by going to daily and sunday mass, the entire bible is read and studied and meditated one every 3 years -- the gospels every two. such order. and beauty -- candles, incense, rosaries, flowers, memorable statues to meditate upon, memorial of the saints who have gone before us with the same struggles we have experienced, colors that have meaning during the seasons of the years, holy water, sacramentals, the central cross with the corpus depiction of christ -- the suffering servant, stained glass windows depicting the significant events in the life of christ, devotion to mary, the stations of the cross, and -- of course, the reserved eucharist and confessional. there are so many aids to prayer and meditation and a lively spiritual life !
come back, geri. come home. the door is open. and bring your daughters !
and be not afraid.
