Bitter medicine to swallow but if it heals

[How to communicate after a contentious divorce...]

This was pointed out to our members last night, it helps me but burns me with guilt. If I want forgiveness I must extend mine to others even pwBPD, sick as they are. Just because my ex tells people I'm a horrible monster I know better. I control how I feel, it is my choice whether I allow anyone bother me, especially someone severely mentally ill.

The truth hurts but hopefully it heals me and I'm the only person I can change.

24 Hours a Day

Thursday, May 13, 2010

A.A. Thought for the Day

In A.A. we find fellowship and release and strength. And having found these things, the real reasons for our drinking are taken away. Then drinking has no more justification in our minds. We no longer need to fight against drink. Drink just naturally leaves us. At first, we are sorry that we can't drink, but we get so that we are glad that we don't have to drink. Am I glad that I don't have to drink?

Meditation for the Day

Try never to judge. The human mind is so delicate and so complex that only its Maker can know it wholly. Each mind is so different, actuated by such different motives, controlled by such different circumstances, influenced by such different sufferings, you cannot know all the influences that have gone to make up a personality. Therefore, it is impossible for you to judge wholly that personality. But God knows that person wholly and He can change it. Leave to God the unraveling of the puzzles of personality. And leave it to God to teach you the proper understanding.

Prayer for the Day

I pray that I may not judge other people. I pray that I may be certain that God can set right what is wrong in every personality.

[JerryRG]

This was pointed out to our members last night, it helps me but burns me with guilt. If I want forgiveness I must extend mine to others even pwBPD, sick as they are. Just because my ex tells people I'm a horrible monster I know better. I control how I feel, it is my choice whether I allow anyone bother me, especially someone severely mentally ill.

The truth hurts but hopefully it heals me and I'm the only person I can change.

24 Hours a Day

Thursday, May 13, 2010

A.A. Thought for the Day

In A.A. we find fellowship and release and strength. And having found these things, the real reasons for our drinking are taken away. Then drinking has no more justification in our minds. We no longer need to fight against drink. Drink just naturally leaves us. At first, we are sorry that we can't drink, but we get so that we are glad that we don't have to drink. Am I glad that I don't have to drink?

Meditation for the Day

Try never to judge. The human mind is so delicate and so complex that only its Maker can know it wholly. Each mind is so different, actuated by such different motives, controlled by such different circumstances, influenced by such different sufferings, you cannot know all the influences that have gone to make up a personality. Therefore, it is impossible for you to judge wholly that personality. But God knows that person wholly and He can change it. Leave to God the unraveling of the puzzles of personality. And leave it to God to teach you the proper understanding.

Prayer for the Day

I pray that I may not judge other people. I pray that I may be certain that God can set right what is wrong in every personality.