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February 2012 - eClips
For Alumni and Friends
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News
Facebook - Search for your favorite Valley Hope center on Facebook.
New Renewal Day calendar link on our website. Visit the calendar at
www.valleyhope.org/alumni/addiction-recovery-calendars.aspx
New issue -Coffee Cup Spring 2012
for your online viewing and reading pleasure.........here's the link:
www.valleyhope.org/about-us/coffeecup/Spring_2012.pdf
First Three Steps
Chaplain John, Norton Valley Hope
There are countless ways that we can illustrate powerlessness from experiences of life.
This time of year I think of driving on snow and ice. There is nothing worse than to go
into a skid on ice and not be able to regain control of the vehicle. We feel totally powerless
over the situation and can only hope and pray the damage is limited. Feeling powerless in
life is never fun or easy to cope with, but it is part of the life's experience that we all
face. On a deeper level, all human beings have limits. We have limits at every turn.
We have limits with gravity, with the amount of time we are awake, limits to how much we
can eat, how long we live and how well we can reason and face adversities. We live in a
country that wants to lift up rugged individualism and the freedom to dream without limit.
Also, our culture does not do well with grief. We are to "get over" quickly our losses and
fix even difficult and complex problems with easy solutions. These are all limits that are
not accepted by our culture and do not serve us well. The life of recovery is real and in
touch with the difficulties of accepting our limits even while we live in a culture that is
out of touch with limits and looking for a cure for all that limits us.
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Quotes to Ponder
There's one sad truth in life I've found
While journeying east and west -
The only folks we really wound
Are those we love the best.
We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest,
And deal full many a thoughtless blow
To those who love us best.
~Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while, leave footprints on our
hearts, and we are never, ever the same. ~Flavia Weedn
Where there is no love, put love and you will find love. Fr. Dan Sheets
Trouble is part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves
you enough chance to love you enough. ~Dinah Shore
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Be safe. Be good. Be happy.
Megan O
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