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For
Today –

How sad it is that we give up on people who are just like us.

-- Fred Rogers

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God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that
you try.

-- Mother Teresa

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We now see that in twelfth-stepping the immediate results
are not so important.

-- Bill W.

Love and myGgwy Ian S..


An absence of alternatives clears the mind marvellously


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Tue Sep 2, 2008 9:53 pm

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You're welcome, I have aloving God of my understanding in my life. Love and myGgwy Ian S.. An absence of alternatives clears the mind marvellously ... From:...
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Forgive me for my stupidity but what does myGgwy mean? Also, what do you mean by alternatives? Alternatives to God? Nancy Ian Stephenson...
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my God go with you.   I think that Ian is saying that when you KNOW the solution, and there are no REAL alternatives, it becomes a matter of embracing that...
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That you for the clarification. That makes a lot of sense. Nancy Michael traster <michaelpault@...> wrote: my God go with you. I think that Ian is...
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