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From Pancake Marathon:

Today I find that you know essentially living life on life's terms is really a way to finding the path upon itself to cultivating an attitude of gratitude, knowing as I do within this wisdom that I have gained, and what I mean by wisdom is myself worth and not need to prove anything to anyone else: the same could be said about anyone else as well, and yes along the path of recovery I've learned through this wisdom to change my ways because of the help of a higher power, as simply to say try before the Journey of recovery I did not think that was adequate: for you have to do it because try is nothing, simply to say; overall that living life on life's terms only can really be accomplished if you have the ability to grow/cultivate, cultivate an attitude of gratitude, I saw that is accomplished by being the now moment essentially living life on life's terms finding the ability to you know like Step 11 make progress Within a conscious effort through communicating and active listening/hearing.

Let go and let God: Come to me first as in eyesight: looking through the page of slogans, as simply to say Live life on life's terms is something that really stands out to me overall, for its about yes, Meaning those requirements as to the point of Let It Begin With Me; So in a sense of saying Live life on life's terms Is just that of another way of saying the now moment. Seeing that fear Is something that can be seen as false evidence appearing real or face everything and rise, so it’s this hope that we have to know that we need to halt and q-tip. Finding that Unity like tradition 1, so that we can have that faith that we now know how it to go about being able to push; to be able to have this love that someone gave to us, at one time and now it is up to us to stop going nuts because we know how we will want it again but the wisdom of how to get it, is doing the next right thing and living life on life teams.

"In the past, we made simple situations into problems; we made mountains out of molehills." Basic Text, p. 87
Making mountains out of molehills seems to be our specialty. Have you heard it said that to an addict, a flat tire is a traumatic event? Or how about those of us who forget all pretense of principle when confronted with a bad driver? And what about that can opener that won't work-you know, the one you just threw out the second story window? We can relate when we hear others share, "God, grant me patience right now!"
No, it's not the major setbacks that drive us to distraction. The big things-divorce, death, serious illness, the loss of a job-will throw us, but we survive them. We've learned from experience that we must reach out to our Higher Power and others to make it through life's major crises. It's the small things, the constant day-to-day challenges of living life without the use of drugs, that seem to affect most addicts most strongly in recovery.
When the little things get to us, the Serenity Prayer can help us regain our perspective. We can all remember that "turning over" these small matters to the care of our Higher Power results in peace of mind and a refreshed perspective on life.
Just for today: I will work on patience. I will try to keep from blowing things out of proportion, and walk with my Higher Power through my day.

Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 34
No matter how much one wishes to try, exactly how can one turn his own will and his own life over to the care of whatever God he thinks there is? In my search for the answer to this question, I became aware of the wisdom with which it was written: that this is a two-part Step. I could see many times where I should have died, or at least been injured, during my previous style of living, and it never happened. Someone, or something, was looking after me. I choose to believe my life has always been in God's care. He alone controls the number of days I will be granted until physical death. The matter of will (self-will or God's will) is the more difficult part of the Step for me. It is only when I have experienced enough emotional pain, through failed attempts to fix myself, that I become willing to surrender to God's will for my life. Surrender is like the calm after the storm. When my will is in line with God's will for me, there is peace within.