Today's thought from Hazelden is:

Freedom is like taking a bath - you have to keep doing it every day!
--Flo Kennedy

Nothing stands still. Change is the law of life. We may sometimes feel that our personal gains have to be won over and over again. But looked at from another perspective, that's not so. Our solid personal gains are the ones that no one and nothing can take away from us.

They are tools for continued growth. Jobs, lovers, houses may change, but serenity and freedom of spirit are within our power to achieve - to maintain - or to give away.

Freedom means choice; our choice of what we do with our bodies, our money, our lives. If we decline to choose, the choice will be made for us. If we don't use or claim our freedom, we are giving it away. Our lives need our active, creative participation every moment.

Like bathing, I must daily exercise my freedom. No one can do it for me.
From: The Promise of a New Day by Karen Casey and Martha Vanceburg

This feeds directly into the Tuesday focus on CAL that I sent to my on-line group. Problems are gifts. I just need to learn to press on.

I got up feeling depressed this morning. I had a dream last night about my old school having fire damage. My former principal called me to see what I'd left in the old room that belonged to me personally.

The night before I dreamed about being one of those who put apples in the bags from which they are sold in the grocery store. Friday night I relived one of the horrific episodes from my marriage in my dreams. I fought the bed and, thankfully, the bed won. I don't remember what I dreamed of on Saturday night. I guess I was too tired to dream. I'm not sure what the message should be but they're certainly interesting dreams.

Any way as I was saying I awoke feeling depressed. I've had to give myself a good talking to and say some prayers. I really want to stay at home today but it would be better for me to go on to work.