You Are Worthy

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There

is a

simple

formula

to being

worthy.


First: one must believe that you are worth something,

and in the eyes of your Higher Power there is no one

on this Earth who is more worthy than you.

The next step in the formula is to understand that

your worth is measured in direct proportion to how

well you do the will of Your Higher Power.

Now simply combine the first two,

mix together your healthy dose of self esteem,

together with the willingness to do the next right thing,

and you will be worthy.

Some men dream of worthy accomplishments,

while others stay awake and do them.

Do well today, sleep well tonight.

It is nice when others recognize your worth,

but true generosity is to love and give without

expecting to be rewarded or being noticed.

Do not listen to those who are jealous of your worth.

"Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm,
and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success."    ~ Oliver Goldsmith

Worthiness is success collected together from many

small acts of kindness.

Being worthy today does not guarantee that

tomorrow you will automatically be worthy.

The formula for worthiness is a daily reprieve based

on your spiritual condition.

Today you must ask (pray) for guidance from

your Higher Power and make a conscious effort

to do the next right thing.

Believe that some of the right choices we have to make

do not appear to be at all that pleasant.

Your Higher Power may give you the choice today

of having to demonstrate tough love.

It is always a very difficult decision to let go of someone

who is drowning in their own sickness.

It is better to let go and keep your self worth and your sanity,

so that you may continue to help yourself

and those who are worthy.

God helps those who want to help themselves.

You are worthy, but you are not God.

"We do not believe in ourselves
until someone reveals that deep inside us
something is valuable,
worth listening to,
worthy of our trust,
sacred to our touch.
Once we believe in ourselves
we can risk curiosity, wonder,
spontaneous delight or any experience
that reveals the human spirit."     ~ e. e. cummings

Your spirit is worthy.

Do not be so modest that when someone says thank you

for a kindness, you cannot accept and believe your own worth.

God, allow us to laugh and love,

but never to forget that we have cried.

Be grateful, build on yesterdays formula for creating

self worth to make this the most valuable day of your life.

Happiness is helping someone help themselves.

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ME and the Boss

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Vulnerable

Mean

people

prey

on the

vulnerable

and the

weak.

Stay away from mean people.

We are vulnerable because we trust too much.

We become vulnerable when we are distraught because

of a crisis or we are grieving over the loss of a loved one.

When a person becomes old and tired they become vulnerable.

Children who have yet to learn about mean people

are the most vulnerable.

We are all emotionally vulnerable at some time in our lives.

Some people are more vulnerable, more often, than others.

We want to be loved, we want to be helped, but do not be needy.

Opening yourself to vulnerability because you are greedy

does not fall under today's topic.

"It is my view that our society can be no more stable
than the foundation of individual family units upon which it rests.
Our government, our institutions, our schools...
indeed, our way of life are dependent on healthy marriages
and loyalty to the vulnerable little children around our feet."
Dr. James C. Dobson

Balance trust with caution.

Have a friend, be a friend.

When you see a friend falling head over heels in love with their

newest addictive habit, warn them nicely.

When a friend warns you that your opening your feelings

up to a world of hurt, listen to them.

Don't ever crawl into a shell to hide or to stuff your feelings.

Let your feelings flow and allow yourself to enjoy life.

We allow ourselves to become vulnerable

when we stumble through life without purpose, without focus,

with only a weak desire just to survive.

We learn from experience not to stumble.

"I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches.
If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise,
since everyone suffers.
To suffering must be added mourning,
understanding, patience, love, openness
and the willingness to remain vulnerable."
Anne Morrow Lindbergh


Experience life today to its fullest and learn from

both the good and the bad.

Ask your Bridge Club partner and they will gladly tell you

about the positive side to being vulnerable.

Tennis is not the only game that has love.

Golf teaches frustration and something else??

Today, look for the positive side of your game;

love well.

laugh loudly,

care intensely and passionately,

and do the will of your Higher Power.

Share your trust so that you and your friends are less vulnerable.

Do not be a mean person.

Happiness is helping someone help themselves.
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Bored

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"Life is


never boring,


but some people


choose to be bored.

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~ Wayne Dyer

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Boredom is a disease of the mind and psyche, an insidious disease.

It not only takes the joy out of life, but the creativity as well.

No one of God's children should ever be bored with life.

Alcoholics and addicts tend to become bored very easily.

Alcoholics and addicts do not like who they are, they are never happy

with where they are and there is always someone to blame.

Because of the denial and the justification, the addict and the alcoholic are

always the last to know that they have a problem.

After all, I was drinking because I was bored.

I was bored so I went shopping.

I was bored so I stopped at McDonalds for a burger or two or three.

I get so excited when I'm at the gaming parlor.

One little pill will pick me up.

I never get bored when I'm having sex with someone other than my spouse.

The denials and justifications go on and on, one for every drink,

one for every drug and one for every occasion.

The debacle always begins with just one.

If you like who you are, and if you like where you are,

and if you mind your own business, you will never become bored.

It sounds like it is an easy change, just don't get bored,

but to the affected addict and alcoholic it appears to be an impossible task.

A friend can show the way from misery to happiness.

A Higher Power can guide the hopeless to a faith that is never boring.

Bored is being selfish, self-centered, arrogant, egotistical and "It is all about Me."

Healthy is being kind, being loving, being patient and tolerant, being forgiving and

being the person that your Higher Power wants you to be.

Today, try to do the will of your Higher Power, guaranteed not to be boring.

Today, find a friend who is never bored and be willing to follow the leader.

Get excited, know good feelings, laugh, and love

and be the person others seek to alleviate their boredom.

Happiness is helping someone help themselves.

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Arrogance

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Honesty

separates

self esteem

from

arrogance.



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To display an overbearing sense of superiority is true sign of arrogance.

You must earn the respect of others, you do not demand respect from them.

Be self confident, not presumptuous.

Do not make assumptions, be willing to say, " I do not know."

Most importantly, say that you would be willing to learn.

Arrogance is a lot of smoke being generated by ego maniacs

who are trying to hide an inferiority complex.

Your Higher Power did not place you or any other soul into this world

to be a slave to another's false ego.

Arrogance is a dishonest act.

"Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance
and hypocritical humility.
I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.” ~ Frank Lloyd Wright

I you've got it, flaunt it.

Take pride in being the best person that you can be.

It takes knowledge, understanding, and a whole list of other good virtues

for a person to become a leader.

Arrogance is not a good virtue.

Not everyone is a leader, but everyone is a teacher.

Those who are not arrogant are willing to learn from everyone,

both the young and the old, the smart and the dumb,

the leader and the follower.

The will of your Higher Power is given to you by those people and things

that are put into your life.

"The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think
that Nature was made solely for their benefit,
as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire
merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages." ~ Cyrano de Bergerac

Every soul has God like qualities, only the arrogant believe

that they are the only ones to have been so blessed.

Today, for the benefit of others, wear your God given talents

as a badge of honor.

Today, earn your respect by honestly being yourself.

Today, do not presume or assume.

Today, be a friend so you can have a friend.

Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly

and trust in our Creator who loves us.

Happiness is helping someone help themselves.

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Unacceptable

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Who are we to say

that anything

in God's world

is unacceptable??





A Higher Power created this world exactly the way it is and

our opinion is of little significance.

The sun will rise, the tides will turn, and people will be people.

The only unacceptable thing that I can change is my

behavior and my attitude.

"Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation;
it does not mean running away from the struggle.
On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes,
with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering,
of psychological complexes and injustices."                    ~ Paul Tournier

There are three guarantees in life; death, unacceptable childish behaviors

and taxes.

As unacceptable as death may be to us we must accept

that it is inevitable.

We mourn for those whom we loved that have died,

we collect their strength and add it to ours to make

us stronger and better able to do the will of our Higher Power.

Have faith, a Higher Power assures us that no spirit departs

this world without having the chance to make this world we live in

a better place.

"That is the definition of faith -
acceptance of that which we imagine to be true,
that which we cannot prove."                                   ~ Dan Brown

Children learn their behaviors from the examples they see.

If your child's behaviors are unacceptable, improve

the examples that they see.

To have children cooperate with you use words that are

acceptable, such as "I love you," "Please," Thank you,"

and "How can we make this better for everyone."

Children are innocent until you make them guilty.

"Seeing people as innocent is the greatest gift
you can give another human being:
the gift of acceptance."                      ~ Rhonda Britten

The last unacceptable guarantee is taxes.

When people find things unacceptable they ask for change.

Does having a different leader using different words to

describe the same issues constitute change?

We should never have left a Higher Power

out of our schools or out of our government.

"Accept the place the divine providence has found for you,
the society of your contemporaries,
the connection of events."                          ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Today, point out the unacceptable.

Today, do not get angry, ask politely for change.

Today, do something, but do not rely on your neighbor

to grieve for your loss, raise your children or pay your taxes.

"Happiness can exist only in acceptance." ~ George Orwell

Happiness is helping someone help themselves.

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Mushroom Love

Love is

like a

poisonous

mushroom --

you don't

know if it

is the real thing

until it is too late.

We love to love

in spite of its possible consequences.

The world revolves around love and a good balance

of love of self, love of family, love of a special other,

and love for your fellow man will make life most enjoyable.

Some of us are born with broken pickers, and it appears

to be both hereditary and learned.

If Mom and Dad have been married and divorced multiple

times, the children are likely to do the same.

To break the cycle of broken relationships, try staying out of a

relationship until you learn how to pick healthy mushrooms.

Use a friend, hopefully an expert, to help your pick your mushrooms.

Rely on friends who have survived and grown into a loving

relationship and seek their advice.

Most importantly, when good advice is offered, take it.

"I am... a mushroom;
On whom the dew of heaven drops now and then."     ~ John Ford
If you really love someone you would be willing to eat

poisonous mushrooms for them, but if they loved you back,

they would never ask you to.

Have faith, your Higher Power knows that human nature

is to have a man and a woman love, live and grow together

into old age, and he will not abandon you.

If your picker is broken, go to a good place recommended

by the butcher, the baker, the preacher, the rabbi, the teacher,

the Indian chief, or the candlestick maker and start by

choosing to be a friend to one person of the same sex as you.

Talk to your new friend about love and feelings.

Learn that a relationship is a two way street, no hostages allowed.

Have your new friend help you grow your circle of mushrooms.

When you have a circle of love, the poisonous mushrooms will

stand out in the crowd and you can learn not to pick them.

Do not be deceived by appearances, by hidden ulterior motives,

sex, money, things, or any of the other traps that

bad mushrooms use to deceive their intended victim.

Stop picking mushrooms, mushrooms are a fungus that thrive

on the remains of their victims.

Pick your friends among the flowers and the trees

that grow on natures love.

"To love and to be loved
is to feel the sun from both sides."             ~ David Viscott

Stay in the sunlight, only mushrooms grow in the dark.

Do not smother your love, let it breath and let it shine.

Love is a peck on the cheek, a squeeze of the hand,

and a quiet "Thank You."

Happiness is helping someone help themselves.

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