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Phil


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To my AA buddy Bill...sober over 3 years..one day at a time..lying on his death bed...cancer..I've been there...Got through it....There will come a day..when there will be no tomorrows..Each and every one of us...but for the Grace of some kind of a Higher Power lead us to sobriety..some of us shouldnt even be here..Life is short....make the most of it..My thoughts for today...Have the best one you can..eh..

 


 


 
The Day Before Tomorrow



The day before tomorrow
Is a very special day
And I feel that I should live it
In a happy kind of way...

Tomorrow's so mysterious
That I really can't foresee
The things that might be happening
And the way that life might be

But the Day Before Tomorrow
That's quite a different thing...
Those hours are so much closer
I can guess what they might bring...

I'd rather be a sparrow
Or a lily of the field
And just wait til God's will for me
Is finally revealed...

I'll put aside the griefs and cares --
The trouble I won't borrow
And just be glad I'm living in
The Day Before Tomorrow!

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Jean Kyler McManus



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jonibaloni


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Thank you Phil.


Prayers and love go out to your buddy Bill. I too have had many friends either recover fromit, or go on to the Big Meeting in the sky...


Thank you for reminding me that life is about what is going on in the present.


Yesterday is history,


Tomorrow, a mystery,


Today is a gift...


That's why it is called the 'PRESENT'



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G'morning, Phil. Both you and Bill are in my prayers. Feel me give you a hug, eh? Love, Wren

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Hi There Phil,

My heart goes out to your friend Bill, too.

Thanks for the reminder, have had some conversations, with friends, in and out of the Program, and I have just been observing a lot of complaining - oh, well, God Bless my friends, and a Big thank you to my Higher Power, for I have NO complaints of any kind, love the message of this Post.

When I watched some very dear friends and beloved relatives in the process of dying,
Wow, does that message get so Loud, eh. Live your Life! Every single time, I left my sister's room, where I had to go home and deal with the tremendous grief of losing her, slowly, watching her as her brain completely atrophied, when I could get up out of that fetal position of crying my eyes out, just took a deep breath, and would go out in my beautiful garden, and not think anymore, just be there, and try to enjoy the awesome simple beauty of life.

I have always been a little facinated with how Pain and Joy seem to be on allmost some strange parralel.

The good news is that we get to feel. No one like's the pain, that is a given, but we do GET to feel it, and that is a Gift. Thanks to the Gift of Sobriety.

Love to you, Toni

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