Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
04-28-2014, 11:20 AM
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April 30
You are reading from the book ...
April 30
You are reading from the book Today's Gift.
The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears. --John Vance Cheney
If there were no rain, fields would become parched and brittle,...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
04-28-2014, 11:17 AM
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April 29
You are reading from the book ...
April 29
You are reading from the book Today's Gift.
If there is a God, there must also be a Goddess. Neither is more important than the other, both are in balance, together they create a Whole....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
04-25-2014, 10:08 AM
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April 28
You are reading from the book ...
April 28
You are reading from the book Today's Gift.
I will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions. --Lillian Hellman
Every fall there seems to be something new and different to get...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
04-25-2014, 10:06 AM
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April 27
You are reading from the book ...
April 27
You are reading from the book Today's Gift.
Crying only a little bit is no use. You must cry until your pillow is soaked. Then you can get up and laugh. . . . --Galway Kinnell
Many of...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
04-24-2014, 12:16 PM
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April 26
You are reading from the book ...
April 26
You are reading from the book Today's Gift.
"The horror of that moment," the King went on, "I shall never forget." "You will, though," the Queen said, "if you don't make a memorandum of...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
04-24-2014, 12:13 PM
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April 25
You are reading from the book ...
April 25
You are reading from the book Today's Gift.
Unused capacities atrophy, cease to be. --Tillie Olsen
Those of us who have suffered a broken bone and had to put up with a cast for...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
04-23-2014, 10:31 AM
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April 24
You are reading from the book ...
April 24
You are reading from the book Today's Gift.
My life has been a tapestry of rich and royal hue, An everlasting vision of the everchanging view, A wondrous woven magic in bits of blue and...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
04-21-2014, 02:04 PM
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April 23
You are reading from the book ...
April 23
You are reading from the book Today's Gift.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear not absence of fear. --Mark Twain
It is not unusual to feel afraid. It is unusual, however,...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
04-21-2014, 01:54 PM
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April 22
You are reading from the book ...
April 22
You are reading from the book Today's Gift.
I meant to do my work today But a brown bird sang in an apple tree, And a butterfly flitted across the field And all the leaves were calling...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
04-19-2014, 12:46 PM
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April 21
You are reading from the book ...
April 21
You are reading from the book Today's Gift.
In grief, healing helps us make peace with the meaning of death, which cannot be understood except as an unknown
part of life. --Alla...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
04-19-2014, 12:42 PM
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April 20
You are reading from the book ...
April 20
You are reading from the book Today's Gift.
Hurried and worried until we're buried And there's no curtain call, Life's a very funny proposition, after all. --George M. Cohan
Often,...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
04-17-2014, 11:54 AM
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April 19
You are reading from the book ...
April 19
You are reading from the book Today's Gift.
Inch by inch, row by row Someone bless these seeds I sow. . . 'Til the rain comes tumblin' down. --David Mallett
We plant a garden with...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
04-17-2014, 11:50 AM
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April 18
You are reading from the book ...
April 18
You are reading from the book Today's Gift.
Gifts are for giving. --Ian and Sylvia Tyson
Many years ago, a young woman named Dorothy was very talented at china painting. She painted...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
04-16-2014, 09:23 AM
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April 17
You are reading from the book ...
April 17
You are reading from the book Today's Gift.
If your heart catches in your throat ask a bird how she sings. --Cooper Edens
The idea of your heart getting caught in your throat and then...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
04-15-2014, 09:47 AM
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April 16
You are reading from the book ...
April 16
You are reading from the book Today's Gift.
. . . there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. --Booker T. Washington
It's not what we do for a job that counts,...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
04-14-2014, 12:37 PM
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April 15
You are reading from the book ...
April 15
You are reading from the book Today's Gift.
If I have freedom in my life, And in my soul am free, Angels alone that soar above Enjoy such liberty. --Richard Lovelace
When a cow...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
04-13-2014, 10:24 AM
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April 14
You are reading from the book ...
April 14
You are reading from the book Today's Gift.
There the penitents took off their shoes And walked barefoot the remaining mile. --Robert Lowell
Some people have to have pain. If dirt...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
04-12-2014, 12:16 PM
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April 13
You are reading from the book ...
April 13
You are reading from the book Today's Gift.
If I have freedom in my life, And in my soul am free, Angels alone that soar above Enjoy such liberty. --Richard Lovelace
When a cow...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
04-11-2014, 01:30 PM
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April 12
You are reading from the book ...
April 12
You are reading from the book Today's Gift.
I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. --Wendell Berry
Blessed are all birds and...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
04-10-2014, 01:16 PM
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April 11
You are reading from the book ...
April 11
You are reading from the book Today's Gift.
Listen to your feelings. They tell you when you need to take care of yourself, like finding a friend if you feel lonely, crying if you feel...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
04-10-2014, 01:13 PM
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April 10
You are reading from the book ...
April 10
You are reading from the book Today's Gift.
But don't go into Mr. McGregor's garden. --Beatrix Potter
Since we are members of a family, we are not free to do anything we like. We may...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
04-07-2014, 01:19 PM
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April 9
You are reading from the book ...
April 9
You are reading from the book Today's Gift.
There are persons who have some parts like me, but no one adds up exactly like me. --Virginia Satir
Most of us feel pretty ordinary. We...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
04-07-2014, 01:14 PM
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April 8
You are reading from the book ...
April 8
You are reading from the book Today's Gift.
Any time you sense you are getting overrun by outside influences and losing your feelings, put your attention inside your body. Relax. . .,...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
04-05-2014, 12:45 PM
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April 7
You are reading from the book ...
April 7
You are reading from the book Today's Gift.
Take time every day to do something silly. --Philipa Walker
Spring fever may bring out our longings and our sense of unfilled needs for...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
04-05-2014, 12:38 PM
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April 6
You are reading from the book ...
April 6
You are reading from the book Today's Gift.
In quarreling about the shadow, we often lose the substance. --Aesop
There is a fable about a man and his camel who were hired by a wealthy...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
04-04-2014, 02:09 PM
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April 5
You are reading from the book ...
April 5
You are reading from the book Today's Gift.
I measure every Grief I meet With narrow, probing, Eyes-- I wonder if it weighs like Mine-- Or has an easier size. --Emily Dickinson
How can...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
04-03-2014, 11:51 AM
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April 4
You are reading from the book ...
April 4
You are reading from the book Today's Gift.
One day at a time--this is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone. --Ida Scott Taylor
It's not always easy to...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
04-02-2014, 10:48 AM
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April 3
You are reading from the book ...
April 3
You are reading from the book Today's Gift.
If there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could be better...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
04-01-2014, 10:57 AM
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April 2
You are reading from the book ...
April 2
You are reading from the book Today's Gift.
It is wealth to be content. --Lao-tzu
On the evening of the first day of spring, a woman gave her husband a bright red geranium in a clay...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
03-31-2014, 02:18 PM
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More Recovery Readings - April
April 1
You are reading from the book Today's Gift.
Then Bacchus. . .gave him the choice of making a wish come true. . . . So Midas said, "Make everything I touch turn gold." --Ovid
Poor King...
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