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New Years Eve - Thought, Dreams and Prayers

New Years Eve - Thought, Dreams and Prayers

Hi Everyone @Dimity @TAB

I won’t be celebrating the new year. Haven’t for a long time.

But wondered whether anyone had any thoughts, dreams or prayers as we move into the count-down….?

Heres a prayer I read every day for my first few years after leaving rehab for alcohol and then onto stabilising for bipolar…

Peace Prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi


Lord, make me a channel of thy peace:

that where there is hatred, I may bring love;

that where there is wrong, I may bring the spirit of forgiveness;

that where there is discord, I may bring harmony;

that where there is error, I may bring truth;

that where there is doubt, I may bring faith;

that where there is despair, I may bring hope;

that where there are shadows, I may bring light;

that where there is sadness, I may bring joy.

Lord, grant that I may seek rather

to comfort than to be comforted;
to understand than be understood;
to love than to be loved.

For it is by self-forgetting that one finds.

It is by forgiving that one is forgiven.
It is by dying that one awakens to eternal life.

Amen.


Thinking of you all…

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Sounds amazing @ArraDreaming

Good thanks @Shaz51 getting ready for a new fridge from the Boxing Day sales

Hope you're well?

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Re: New Years Eve - Thought, Dreams and Prayers

Same back @Jacques

Thank you for your wishes

May the New Year bring some pleasant times and open new doors

Sophia1

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Re: New Years Eve - Thought, Dreams and Prayers

Happy new years!

@Sophia1 @Delicatessen @Dimity @Shaz51 @ArraDreaming + everyone else here with us!

I've missed catching up with everyone over the forums but had a much needed break up the coast from where I live for a few days over Christmas. Unfortunately my partner got Covid over New Years Eve so we just stayed home and had an isolation celebration of watching Netflix, but it was nice to wake up rested and not as tired as past years.

How was everyone else's new years/ holiday breaks?

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Re: New Years Eve - Thought, Dreams and Prayers

Hello and welcome back @amber22

Hope you partner recovers quickly and you don't get Covid19

@Delicatessen , @Sophia1 , @Dimity , @ArraDreaming

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Re: New Years Eve - Thought, Dreams and Prayers

Happy New Year @amber22 it's nice to see you back. I've been busy during the break as family have had time (and been kind enough) to help me with a couple of projects. Results: a garden makeover and (as of tomorrow) a new fridge.

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Re: New Years Eve - Thought, Dreams and Prayers

Welcome back @amber22

Good that you managed some time away for you not so much your partner.

I have heard several people say that one half caught covid.

The numbers are high at the moment.

My husband fell asleep so I watched a few episodes of a series that I record and went to bed early with my book.

Was more than happy to say goodbye to 2022.

Thanks @Shaz51

Happy New Year to yourself and Mr Shaz.

Stay safe and keep on looking after yourselves.

Sophia1

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Re: New Years Eve - Thought, Dreams and Prayers

It's lovely to see you too! @Dimity

Ooo that sounds lovely! That must have been a lot of work with the garden - how long did it take you and the family? That's very kind of them to help. And yay for new fridges!!

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Re: New Years Eve - Thought, Dreams and Prayers

4 of us for a day in the garden @amber22 but I'd been working up to it for a while and I'm still spreading bales of mulch.

Yes it will be lovely to have the new fridge.

Now I'll have to see if I can keep up the momentum.

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Re: New Years Eve - Thought, Dreams and Prayers

Hugs my @Sophia1 🥰

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Re: New Years Eve - Thought, Dreams and Prayers

I have heard that the numbers are very high at the moment too! @Sophia1 I was convinced that I was going to catch it alongside my partner, but luckily escaped it (still don't know how I managed that one but very grateful).

Me too, I was glad to get into the new year and have that 'fresh start' feeling. It was all getting a bit much towards the end of the year and I just needed a bit of a refreshed feeling. That sounds like a lovely night.

Have you been up to much today?

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