Angel Card for Today... Contentment.

My Angel Card today was… Contentment.

Contentment

Savor what is in your life now. The creative process is never finished. Let go of striving and rest in satisfaction and joyous fulfillment.

Contentment
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A heightened sense of appreciation brings contentment. Contentment is the experience of satisfaction and being at ease in one's situation. It is characterized by peace of mind. It is the brother of peace; it is finding great joy in what you already have or where you are in life... it is a feeling of calm, peaceful satisfaction irrespective of one’s current problems or life situation. Staying in the present moment is key to contentment.

When I am anxious it is because I am living in the future.

When I am depressed it is because I am living in the past.

 ~Author Unknown

Having spent the better part of my life trying
either to relive the past or

experience the future before it arrives,

I have come to believe that in between these two extremes is peace.

~Author Unknown

Yesterday is history.

Tomorrow is a mystery.

And today? Today is a gift.

That's why we call it the present.

~Babatunde Olatunji

“Be still and know that I am God!” Psalm 46:10

Faith is a Spiritual Force…

"We can laugh at those who think spirituality the way of weakness.

Paradoxically, it is the way of strength.

The verdict of the ages is that faith means courage.

All men of faith have courage. They trust their God.

We never apologize for God.

Instead we let Him demonstrate, through us, what He can do."

Alcoholics Anonymous p.68

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"Now faith is the substance of things hoped for,
the evidence of things not seen."

Hebrews 11:1

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Living the basics of trusting and relying upon God means we trust our infinite God rather than our finite selves. We now live by faith with the trusting reliance upon things that are not known and thing that are unseen. Faith causes you to know in your heart before you see with your eyes. It is improtant to know that all men and women of faith live by courage. If you think about it… it takes a lot of courage to belive in something you can’t see!

Courage, and for that matter, faith are actions. Rather than being passive, faith is an action of trust and reliance upon God. Faith causes change and it seeks a greater understanding of God. Faith is a spiritual substance. When you have this spiritual substance in you, it communicates to you a certain inner knowing that the thing you are hoping for is certainly established, even before you see any material evidence that it has happened.

Faith is spirituality in action.

 Faith in God must come from the heart.

It is not merely intellectual.

Faith is a spiritual force.

So, may the force by with you! - Anne

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Angel Card for Today... Communication.

My Angel Card today was… Communication. Imagine that!

Communication

A vital link between your interior experience and outward expression. Willingness to share your feelings and thoughts can engage you in more meaningful relationships to yourself, others and your environment.

Communication

Just for Today....

As I consider my plans for today. I ask God to direct my thinking, asking that it be far from self pity, dishonesty, or self seeking motives. God please clear my thinking of wrong motives. During my day I ask you to help me determine which course of action to take. Here I ask you for inspiration, an intuitive thought and the ability to make a good decision. May Your will, not mine be done.

I ask that You help me be willing to turn my life and my will over to Your care. Grant me freedom from self-will and clear my thinking of wrong motives. May Your will, not mine, be done.

…Praying only for knowledge of His will, and the power to carry that out.

AA Big Book – Step 11 stuff