In your life you may at times feel ....

In your life you may at times feel you have worked so hard, and you have done every single thing you could in your power to earn your way and be a good person. You have given and given and given — trying to never keep a score or be a burden to others. You tried so hard to be selfless and tried to believe that good people are rewarded in the end. You turned your doubts into faith and your anger into love after endless failures and betrayals. You pressed forward with positivity. But, maybe things have not turned out the way you had hoped yet, and you have found yourself in a low place. You looked around and said, "I have helped people, who will help me? I have been so good." In these moments it is tempting to ask, "where is my break; what about karma or God — does anyone care? Is everything in life for nothing? Is any of it worth it?" It is so easy to want to give-up in times of failure and disappointment in what seems like an endless struggle. We can become depressed and dis-couraged, which means we have lost our courage.

In painful moments of dire discouragement, please know that your soul has a resiliency and a capacity to endure suffering that is beyond anything you can imagine. Even the softest and sweetest heart was made by design for extreme battle. Make no mistake about it, no matter how kind, meek, humble and soft your giving heart is — you are a warrior! Your strength is beyond your own imagination. The further you are challenged and threatened, the more your warrior heart will emerge. When you are backed into a corner, or someone you love is suffering, or you are hanging by your fingernails over the edge of ruin with the cold, hungry abyss peering into your soul — the super-human occurs. Billions of years of dormant survival intelligence will erupt from every pore. You don't have to be strong, because the strength is in you; it's in your DNA, in your soul and your essence. You would not believe what skill, power and ability your total intelligence possesses until you are in desperate need. So, do not despair. Have faith. It is going to work out and you will be delivered. You have the heart of a warrior and you were designed to survive! 

Do you Agree?

“We emerge 
into the light 
not by denying 
our pain, 
but by walking 
through it.”
 

This Moment Will Never Happen Again ...

This moment will never happen again. Look around. Cherish your time as you’re living it. 
Work towards something, but enjoy the journey of getting from here to there. Experience each step. Don’t succumb to a vicious cycle of overbearing productivity that forces you to constantly think about every imaginable time and place except right here, right now.

It’s often hard to tell the true value of a moment until it becomes a memory. And someday you will likely discover that the small moments you’re living now are really the big ones worth dreaming about. So learn to appreciate what you HAVE NOW before time forces you appreciate what you HAD THEN.

"We come to know happiness, joy and freedom."

If someone stopped you on the street today and asked if you were happy, what would you say? "Well, gee, let's see... I have a place to live, food in the refrigerator, a job, my car is running... Well, yes, I guess I'm happy," you might respond. These are outward examples of things that many of us have traditionally associated with happiness. We often forget, however, that happiness is a choice; no one can make us happy. 

Happiness is what we find in our involvement with Narcotics Anonymous. The happiness we derive from a life focused on service to the addict who still suffers is great indeed. When we place service to others ahead of our own desires, we find that we take the focus off ourselves. As a result, we live a more contented, harmonious life. In being of service to others, we find our own needs more than fulfilled. 

Happiness. What is it, really? We can think of happiness as contentment and satisfaction. Both of these states of mind seem to come to us when we least strive for them. As we live just for today, carrying the message to the addict who still suffers, we find contentment, happiness, and a deeply meaningful life.




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Be a Light in the Darkness.

We can all do this. Be a light! It can be quite simple. There is plenty of darkness around. Any of us can choose to be a light, wherever we are. Anywhere! It's a choice, but not really. Being a light should not be an option. It should be essential to life. Perhaps it is, really. It's about awareness. It's about mindfulness and opportunity. All around us people are suffering. They have lost hope. They are losing their battles one by one and no longer see a pathway to survival, much less victory. Many have lost so much ground that they can no longer see hope through the darkness of their lives. They have become blind to possibility.

They may be great people who have given much to humanity, yet are suffering their own personal battles, all of which they are losing. They need light. They need hope. They need a reason to go on to find a pathway to possibility. Where will they find it? Who will light their path? It's up to all of us. This should not be a job for therapists and pastors, for counselors, and other "helpers." Caring should be a fundamental of living. Actually in ways it is. It is fundamental to really living.

Some are lost in the darkness of their own selfishness and fear. So fearful and insecure are they that all of their energy is tied up building fortifications to protect themselves from imagined threats that either don't exist, or they have no control over. These acts of self preservation actually work to the contrary of their intended purpose, blocking out the light, love, and hope, that is readily available to all of us.

Too many of us are going through life with no real sense of purpose. Perhaps floundering in jobs we hate, or fighting a losing battle to get ahead, just to cure our insatiable insecurities, and social status, to look like we are getting ahead financially. The problem is the lack of real purpose and action that brings meaning to life. I can think of no greater purpose in life than to be a light to drive away the shadows of another person's dark battlefield. I can think of no greater work than this. Wherever we are, whatever our day to day occupations, our real job, the greater work we all share, though few are aware, is to touch the lives of those around us with hope and faith and love, that those who suffer may have the tools to turn the darkness of despair, to power and possibillity.

We can all do it. No. We must all do it. Being a light is the key to happiness and the source of meaning and purpose. It is being compassionate. It's about being love, and caring for those around us, from a heart of gratitude. It is about having faith in a power greater than us that offers a reason to hope, always. It is not about the labels we put on our faith, or about the religious divisions and who is right or wrong. Those arguments are a sign of selfishness. Time wasted on those things is a distraction from the real mission, that of caring for those around us by being light.

We cannot very well be a light if our lamp is out of fuel. To care for others, we must take care of ourselves first. We must be healthy in every way. The selflessness I speak of is one in which we do not need to be preoccupied with our own needs because we are healthy and not needy or selfish. We are able to go out living at a higher level, with gratitude and abundance. It is a place that is above our own need, and where we can contribute to the greater good.

The important thing is that we live, not to light our own path, but to be a light to those around us. That is the bottom line. It is the essence of spirituality, to have compassion for others and live selflessly from a heart of gratitude. These are the keys to bringing light and hope to others. It's simply taking the time to notice, to stop what we are doing, and to offer a hearing ear and deep understanding, and perhaps, a hand up to someone who has fallen. It may even mean giving the shirt off your back. or giving up a meal so someone else can eat.

Today I have decided to be more conscious, that I may light a pathway to hope for someone else.

Be blessed and inspired today. Be a light in the darkness.

Michael Newcomb

As a Man Thinketh

“Of all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul that have been restored and brought to light in this age, none is more gladdening or fruitful of divine promise and confidence than this—that you are the master of your thought, the molder of your character, and the maker and shaper of your condition, environment and destiny.”

“Good thoughts and actions can never produce bad results; bad thoughts and actions can never produce good results ... We understand this law in the natural world, and work with it; but few understand it in the mental and moral world—although its operation there is just as simple and unde- viating—and they, therefore, do not cooperate with it.”

“Law, not confusion, is the dominating principle in the universe; jus- tice, not injustice, is the soul and substance of life; and righteousness, not corruption, is the molding and moving force in the spiritual govern- ment of the world. This being so, we have to but right ourselves to find that the universe is right.”

One strange day when you look back (Bryant McGill)

I cannot know your hidden soul
nor your slice of future time

I see you, but for a moment,
as you change before me

Could I but reach that second,
where you once were

To know your unique truth,
but alas you are gone.

And so I chase after you
and grasp at empty air

Where you once stood
I catch the shadow of your last step

I will never catch you darling
but will catch only a glimpse

— from time to time —

I am the past looking at you,
and your eyes are to the future.

When you look back, I see you,
but you are a mystery to me

I am a mystery to you too, a father,
but a man you will hardly know

Until one strange day when you look back,
and see me— as I see you now.