Tips for making G-d real
 
 
  Breaking Free Chizuk #1323  
 
 
In Today's Issue
   
Image of the Day
12 Step Attitude: Prayer in Our Mother-Tongue
Editor’s Note: "I came to believe" by Johny Cash
Announcements: New conference call
Torah: Kabalos for the New Year
 
 
90 Day Journey
 
Click below to update your 90 day chart
Still Clean Had a fall
Haven't begun the 90 day journey yet? Click here to join.
 
Image of the Day
 

Artwork courtesy of Maydel

 
12 Step Attitude
 
Prayer in Our Mother-Tongue
 
Here are two nice prayers we can say in the beginning of the day and throughout it - especially when feeling weak:
 
By GYE

Beginning of Day Prayer (BB 86-87)
O God, direct my thinking, so that it may be divorced from Self-Pity and from dishonest and self-seeking motives. Let me make every decision and begin every action in You and continue it only thru Your Inspiration. Throughout this day, show me the next step to take and to trust in Your Care of me and my problems. Free me from all self-will and self-sufficiency. Help me to neither seek nor pray for selfish ends.

3rd Step Prayer:
"God, I offer myself to YOU - to build with me and to do with me as YOU will. Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do YOUR will. Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of YOUR Power, YOUR Love, and YOUR Way of life. May I do YOUR will always!". (BB p 63)

Editor’s Note
 
"I came to believe" by Johny Cash

I couldn't manage the problems I laid on myself
And it just made it worse when I laid them on somebody else
So I finally surrendered it all brought down in despair
I cried out for help and I felt a warm comforter there

And I came to believe in a power much higher than I
I came to believe that I needed help to get by
In childlike faith I gave in and gave him a try
And I came to believe in a power much higher than I

Nothing worked out when I handled it all on my own
And each time I failed it made me feel twice as alone
Then I cried, "Lord there must be a sure and easier way
For it just cannot be that a man should lose hope every day."

And I came to believe in a power much higher than I
I came to believe that I needed help to get by
In childlike faith I gave in and gave him a try
And I came to believe in a power much higher than I

Yes, I came to believe in a power much higher than I

From American V: A Hundred Highways
(Johnny Cash's final album, released July 4th, 2006)

Announcements
 
 
New conference call
 
Torah
 
Kabalos for the New Year
 
Come to Rosh Hashana with Something Solid!
 
By Bardichev

It's before Rosh Hashana. Can we completely change our ways? That is doubtful. But we CAN start with small steps. As Bardichev wrote on this thread called "Kabalos for the New Year":

LET'S MAKE A SMALL KABBALLA, BUT A HONEST KABBALLA
ONE THAT WILL BE A RED LINE IN THE SAND.
ONE THAT YOU CAN TELL HASHEM
"TATTEH IN HIMMEL, I WILL CHANGE !!!
YOU WILL SEE NEXT YEAR
I WILL NOT HAVE TO RE-VISIT THIS ISSUE"

LET THIS BE DONE AS A TZIBBUR.
CAN WE IMAGINE THE ZECHUS??!!!

Read article
Do you think you may have a porn addiction?
 

Do you have a problem with obsessive and compulsive porn use? Have you seriously tried the tools on GYE and feel that you are not getting better? Maybe it’s time to consider joining a 12-Step program.

Porn Anonymous (PA)
If you’re compulsively acting-out with pornography and masturbation we suggest you explore joining Porn Anonymous (PA). If you need help deciding whether to join PA, call Michael at 347-699-2368, or email help@pornanonymous.org to schedule a time to talk. For more information visit pornanonymous.org (Hebrew: p-a.org.il / Yiddish: pa-yid.org).

Sexaholics Anonymous (SA)
If your compulsive acting-out has progressed beyond the screen (with other people, paid sexual services, etc.) we suggest you explore joining Sexaholics Anonymous (SA). To figure out if SA is for you, call Dov at 917-414-8205, or email Dov at dov@guardyoureyes.org to schedule a time to talk. For more information visit www.sa.org.

Contribute
 
Please help us continue helping others!
 
Contribute Securely Online
(Anonymous recurring credit card donations possible)
To donate by phone, call (24 hours): 718-878-3075
 
Checks can be made out to: "GYE Corp." and mailed to: GYE CORP, 4403 15TH AVE #305, BROOKLYN, NY 11219-1604, USA
Quick Links