Dear Good Health,

 

Dear Good Health,

You are cordially invited to attend every event of my life, every waking moment of my life.

Dress Code: Lulu Lemons.Come as you are. Comfortable clothes and footwear.

No gifts please. You are the gift.

                                              

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Dear Good Cheer,

You are cordially invited to attend every waking moment of my life, and more importantly, all the times when I am around others.

Dress Code: A smile (or at least a non-frown face) is essential.

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Dear Self-Confidence,

You are cordially invited to attend every scary moment in my life, from interviews ,to learning something new, to times when I have to deal with deep-seated fears.

Dress Code: Appropriately formal - confidence building. 

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 Dear Patience,

You are cordially invited to attend all the waiting moments in my life, and all the testing moments in my life.

Dress Code: Calm colors worn serenely.

  

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Dear Acceptance,

You are cordially invited to attend all the disappointing and devastating moments of my life.

Dress Code: Appropriately comfortable and comforting attire.

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Dear Peace, Mindfulness, and Loving Kindness,

You are cordially invited to attend all of  my life, from the time I wake up till the time I go to bed, even if you have to bust down the door of my ingrained attitudes and habits of mind to get in.

Dress Code: Armor? Nah! Angel wings.

Simplicity Sobriety Regularity Industry

 

Simplicity, sobriety, regularity, and industry

This is what we need to strive for when we return

We may be the prodigal sons and daughters

But respect and restoration can always be re-earned.

 

To be simple is important

Have a simple goal

Such as I will take up right work, and do that right work right

However different, humble, straightforward, and mundane the role.

 

To be sober is important

So many reasons to list

For physical and mental health, for safety, to use money and time wisely

To mend relationships, and to foolish and illegal acts resist.

 

To be regular is important

Because all character strengths must be restored

If you are on time, dependable, responsible, and start being a person of your word

You show real change that's hard to ignore.

 

Industry is important

You have to show you have moved from taking and breaking to helping, serving, and bringing

This is how you put the past behind you

This is how you leave behind, the previous life you were living and its misgivings.

 

Simplicity, sobriety, regularity, and industry

This is how you draw a curtain on your past

Bad doesn't always stay bad, hopeless doesn't always stay hopeless

Seize the opportunity to change the role into which you were by your own will, or accidentally cast.

 

Simplicity, sobriety, regularity, and industry

This is what we need to strive for when we return

We may be the prodigal sons and daughters

But respect and restoration can always be re-earned.