Welcome to Bill's Place.
A collection of Friends In Recovery.
Featuring a weekly Step Study from various 12 Step Recovery literature.
With the occasional inspirational message or message pertaining to a broad spectrum of varied spiritual practices.
An open forum for discussion of the aforementioned Step Study and inspirational/spiritual practice messages.
"Dance like there's no one watching and love like you've never been hurt."
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Thought
for the Day
When new members come into my group, do I make a special effort
to make them feel at home? Do I put myself out to listen to them,
even if their ideas of the program are vague? Do I make it a
habit to talk to all new members myself, or do I often leave
that to someone else? I may not be able to help them, but then
again it may be something that I might say that would put them
on the right track. When I see any members sitting alone, do
I put myself out to be nice to them, or do I stay among my own
special group of friends and leave them out in the cold? Are
all new members my responsibility?
Meditation
for the Day
You are God's servant. Serve Him cheerfully and readily. Nobody
likes a servant who avoids extra work, who complains about being
called from one task to do one less enjoyable. A master would
feel ill served by such a servant. But it that not how you so
often serve God? View your day's work in this light. Try to do
your day's work the way you believe God wants you to do it, never
shirking any responsibility and often going out of your way to
be of service.
Prayer
for the Day
I pray that I may be a good servant. I pray that I may be willing
to go out of my way to be of service.
Connecting with the Universal Mind
Meditation by Orin and DaBen
I let myself grow calm and
serene.
I relax my body.
I imagine the sun above me,
filling my heart with peace and serenity.
As I breathe in, I imagine
I am surrounded
by the golden light of the sun.
It comes from above
and fills me with light.
My aura is becoming radiant.
Shimmering golden light surrounds me.
My mind is linked with the
Universal Mind.
My thoughts reflect its
love, wisdom, and intelligence.
I take a moment to give
thanks
for all the good in my life.
My thanks and positive thoughts
link me with the Universal Mind
and draw more good into my life.
I think loving thoughts.
I am magnetic to love.
I draw my higher good to me
with my loving, positive thoughts.
I release thoughts I do
not want.
I draw to me thoughts that lift me higher.
I know the Universal Mind
creates perfectly whatever I think about.
I now think about my future.
I make a picture of what I want to create
in some area of my life.
As I think of this area,
I believe I can create my vision.
I affirm that I now have it.
I trust that I can create it.
I picture having it.
I release any thoughts that tell me
I cannot have what I want.
I imagine my mind
as a fine gridwork of light.
It extends higher and higher,
linking me with the Universal Mind.
I send my awareness
up this gridwork of light.
As I do, I link with the Universal Mind.
I imagine I meet what I
want to create
as it exists as energy and light
in the higher dimensions
before it manifests in the physical world.
I let whatever symbols,
pictures, or
light images that come into my mind
be the perfect ones to work with.
I make the energy of
what I want to create
more beautiful.
I now draw it into my reality.
I imagine subatomic particles of light
of what I want to manifest
coming into the core of my being.
I take time to daydream
and fantasize
about the future I want to create.
I expand my vision.
I think in unlimited ways.
I welcome into my mind new ideas
about what I can create in this area.
I think positively about
having this.
I allow myself to have even more
than I ever dreamed possible.
I know that the universe
is abundant.
It is always working with me
and for me.
I now have the life I want!
The Wisdom of Children
Never give up because life gets harder as you get older. After preschool the road of life keeps getting bumpier and bumpier and bumpier. Angela Martin, age 11
Never blow in a cat's ear because if you do, usually after three or four times, they will bite your lips! And they don't let go for at least a minute. Lisa Coburn, age 9
Don't think life is easy, because when you get older it is hard work. I used to think life was easy, now I have to do the dishes every other day. Nick Coleman, age 9
Take risks. I mean, if you like this person and you don't know if they like you, ask them out and see what happens. I liked this girl and I asked her out. She said no and she hates me now, but I took that risk. Bruce Wagner, age 13
A realist is more correct about things in life than an optimist. But the optimist seems to have more friends and much more fun. Megan, age 14
When they broke open molecules, they found they were only stuffed with atoms. But when they broke open atoms, they found them stuffed with explosions.
When people run around and around in circles we say they are crazy. When planets do it we say they are orbiting.
Rainbows are just to look at, not to really understand.
Someday we may discover how to make magnets that can point in any direction.
Most books now say our sun is a star. But it still knows how to change back into a sun in the daytime.
Water freezes at 32 degrees and boils at 212 degrees. There are 180 degrees between freezing and boiling because there are 180 degrees between north and south.
A vibration is a motion that cannot make up its mind which way it wants to go.
Many dead animals in the past changed to fossils while others preferred to be oil.
Genetics explain why you look like your father and if you don't why you should.
Vacuums are nothings. We only mention them to let them know we know they're there.
Some oxygen molecules help fires burn while others help make water, so sometimes it's brother against brother.
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Jimmy K.
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"Not wholly in the busy world, not quite beyond it, blooms
the garden that I love."
~Anonymous~
Peace.
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