Secret

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not to have any secrets.

The secret to life,

the secret to happiness,

the secret to fame and fortune,

are not really secrets,

they are the lazy and stupid persons reasons

for blaming God and others for their personal discontent.

Sick secrets keep the sick, sick.

Most secrets are thoughts kept inside of our heads because we fear if someone
should know what we are thinking, they will no longer like or love us.
Your Higher Power knows what you are thinking, yet He still likes and loves you.
Nothing is as burdensome as a secret.

"Self-trust is the first secret to success." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Your Higher Power keeps no secrets. You do not need a secret code to decipher
what is the will of your Higher Power . God is not closemouthed about His will.
When a friend tells you that you are keeping a sick secret, that is your Higher Power
telling on you.

Mother Nature does not seclude her gardens bounty from anyone.
The not to secret miracle for growing a garden is water, sunlight,
and tender loving attention.

Put that manure in a box and market it to those who are too smart to think.

Happiness is not hidden under a rock.

Faith is not a clandestine affair with your Higher Power.

Love is not a surreptitious meeting of divergent souls.

Friendship is not an esoteric agreement between strangers.

Hope is not a covert effort to hide your self esteem from those who may harm you.

A wish is not a secluded desire to do the next right thing.

There is no secret.

Wish, hope, dream, be honest, listen closely, change, enjoy the passage of time,
be kind, be loving, be happy, be tolerant, be patient, be forgiving and if you do all of this
with a smile on your face, you will know the secret of life.

Smile, it will make others think you have a secret.

Happiness is helping someone help themselves.

ME  and the Boss

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Space

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The three dimensions:

distance, area and volume,

can be used when discussing

the word space,

but more important than these

is the dimension of time.

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The Dash Poem, by Linda Ellis

"I read of a man who stood to speak
At the funeral of a friend
He referred to the dates on her tombstone
From the beginning to the end
He noted that first came the date of birth
And spoke the following date with tears,
But he said what mattered most of all
Was the dash between those years..."


The complete poem, "The Dash", tells the story of the most important space that exists,
the duration of our lives. Today is the most important time in that space. What we do
in the space of the next 24 hours may be all that we will be remembered by.
Will we be remembered as a good guy or a bad guy, or just as a person who did the
best they could within the space they occupied.

God will give us the chance, we must make the choice.

Hope, faith and good habits will place us in a dimension where we can be of service
to self, others and our Higher Power.

Hope is the thought, the wishes of our mind.

Faith is the belief, the heart of our desires.

Good habits are the soul that puts into action the doing of the will of a Higher Power.

The Spirit of the Universe is in control of the dimension beyond our comprehension,
our space needs to be occupied by doing the best we can to carry the message of a
loving God. Be kind, the space between making a good choice and a selfish one is
very small. Be loving, the space you fill in the hearts of others is directly proportional
to what you give. Be patient and tolerant of those whose time and space may be out of
control. Do not teach, do not preach, just be a good example to those who do not know
how to use their space wisely.

"As long as you don't forgive, who and whatever it is
will occupy rent-free space in your mind."                       ~ Isabelle Holland


Have a friend, learn from those who make good choices, time and space are too valuable
to spend on the losers. Losers are those who refuse to change for the better. Do the best
you can within the space that you live, life is not a practice run, today is it, do the next
right thing and become a good habit, one that will have improved the world for all.

"Don't ever believe that you have nothing to contribute.
The world is an incredible unfulfilled tapestry,
And only you can fulfill that tiny space that is yours."               ~ Leo Buscaglia

Laugh, love and make sure your space is well occupied.

Happiness is helping someone help themselves.

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ME and the Boss

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Distractions

. You create your own distractions

so that you do not have to face reality.

Do not like to do this, so you'll do this,

drink alcohol to forget.

Do not like to do this, so you'll do this,

gamble away the paycheck.

Do not like to do this, so you'll do this,

engage with strange people.

Do not like to do this, so you'll do this,

go shopping and buy things you do not need.

Do not like this, so you'll do this,

become obsessive compulsive with a hobby.

And the list of distractions goes on and on. There are times when we do the distracting habit

without thinking. There are times when the distraction becomes an addiction and you have

no control over where or when the distraction will take you.

Eventually you even forget the reason you sought out the distraction.

Maybe everything begins with hope, but it usually ends without it. It all ends in reality,

as you perceive reality to be. The perception of reality becomes so distorted by the

distraction you may not know what is real and what is a figment of your imagination.

Find a friend, someone from your family, someone you may have just met, someone

you trust, someone you do not mistrust, anyone who can listen, because when you begin

to honestly tell others of your woes, you will answer your own question of ,

"why am I so distracted from reality?"

"By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions,
one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination." ~ Christopher Columbus

You may fear reality if you have been distracted for too long. Fear is not knowing.

Learning is the first step to change. Pray to your Higher Power to give you the courage

to change. Have faith that your Higher Power wants only good for you.

"Faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen"
(Hebrews 11:1).

Today, avoid the distractions. Today, face reality along with the help of a friend

and your Higher Power. Today, select a goal or destination that is fun and exciting.

Today, do not be distracted from doing the will of your Higher Power.

Be kind, be loving, be patient and tolerant, be forgiving and be the person

God wants you to be.

May your troubles be less, your blessings more,
and may nothing but happiness come through your door.

Happiness is helping someone help themselves.

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Challenges

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A challenge is

only as difficult

as you make it.

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"Out of clutter, find Simplicity.
From discord, find Harmony.
In the middle of difficulty lies Opportunity.” ~ Albert Einstein

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The challenge to having a healthy relationship and finding true love is to know
what lies in ones heart, not in ones head. The challenge is to know ourselves
before we can offer our true selves to a relationship. To know ourselves is to know
our feelings, and to understand that good feelings make for good relationships
and bad feelings destroy any chance for a mutual admiration society to exist.

Good feelings are born in ones heart through a good seed planted by a good example.

Good examples provide nurturing of the seed which allows the seed to grow in
the sunshine of trust, watered by the necessary faith, and given the nourishment of hope.

All of God's children are good seeds, some are just nurtured better than others.
The real miracle of living is that bad seeds can become good seeds, if they are willing
to learn to trust, have faith, and love themselves and others. There are also sick people,
trying to get well, who can fill their lives with meaning and purpose if they to can learn
to have trust, faith and love in their hearts.

Alcoholics and addicts are not bad people trying to get good,
they are sick people trying to get well.

The challenge for the good and the bad, the sick and the ugly, is to get out of their heads,
and learn to feel with their hearts.

To meet any challenge you must have a plan.
The plan must establish goals to measure progress.
We should not dwell on the final goal, the destination of life, but we must learn to
concentrate on the journey of our life, starting with today.

Trust in your Higher Power to give you a long and wonderful life, and if you put together
a long stream of good days in service to self, others and your Higher Power, the rewards
of having lived a wonderful life, happy, joyous and free, will be yours.

Have faith, even some bad seeds turn out to be beautiful wild flowers.

Trust in your Higher Power, know that all fruits and vegetables grow from a single seed.
Today, be the flower that bears the fruit to nourish the world.
Today, know that there are tomatoes, potatoes and roses and your choice should allow you
to be just as God wants you to be, not as what others expect of you.

Today, if you are a cucumber, do not get pickled, because once a pickle, always a pickle
and you cannot become a cucumber again.. Make sure "you" are healthy before you go
picking a soul mate. Seek out the flower of a healthy fruit, which is just like you, so that
together you may do God's will.

The challenge of life is to grow, enjoy the journey, and leave this world a better place
for those seeds which you have planted

Have faith, opportunities will appear if you allow your Higher Power to help you plan
to meet your challenges.

May your challenge for today be how to do all the good things
that love and kindness have given you the opportunity to enjoy.

Happiness is helping someone help themselves.

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ME and the Boss

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