“The food, the service and the desserts were all great; but love, hope, fellowship & gratitude was the main dish!”

“Either befriend all your thoughts, party with them the best you can… or toss the rascals out.”

Adapted from A Year with Hafiz

“Now we are learning to accept ourselves and to forget ourselves in healthier ways. We all need to move beyond the bounds of an oppressive ego. In our old style, we could not learn healthy releases because we were hooked on unhealthy ones. Today, we are learning meditation, making friends, helping others, and letting go as ways to forget ourselves. I pray for Your help today, God, in staying away from self-destructive intoxications so I am able to learn healthy releases.”

Adapted from Touchstones Meditations

Meditation for the Day “We know God by spiritual vision. We feel that He is beside us. We feel His presence. Contact with God is not made by the senses. Spirit consciousness replaces sight. Since we cannot see God, we have to perceive Him by spiritual perception. God has to span the physical and the spiritual with the gift to us of spiritual vision. Many persons, though they cannot see God, have had a clear spiritual consciousness of Him. We are inside a box of space and time, but we know there must be something outside of that box, limitless space, eternity of time, and God. Prayer for the Day I pray that I may have a consciousness of God's presence. I pray that God will give me spiritual vision.”

Adapted from Twenty-Four Hours a Day© 1975 by Hazelden Foundation. All rights reserved.