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Page i Finding the Joy in Today Practical Readings for Living with Chronic Illness Sefra Kobrin Pitzele HAZELDEN INFORMATION & EDUCATIONAL SERVICES

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title	:	Finding the Joy in Today : Practical Readings for Living With Chronic Illness
author	:	Pitzele, Sefra.
publisher	:	Hazelden Publishing
isbn10 | asin	:	1568383487
print isbn13	:	9781568383484
ebook isbn13	:	9780585171876
language	:	English
subject	Chronically ill--Prayer-books and devotions--English, Devotional calendars.
publication date	:	1999
lcc	:	BV4910.P57 1999eb
ddc	:	242/.4
subject	:	Chronically ill--Prayer-books and devotions--English, Devotional calendars.

Page ii Hazelden Center City, Minnesota 55012-0176 1-800-328-0094 1-651-213-4590 www. hazelden.org First published by Hazelden, April 1988 1988 by Sefra Kobrin Pitzele (Originally titled One More Day) All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America No portion of this publication may be reproduced in any manner without the written permission of the publisher Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Pitzele, Sefra, 1942[One more day] Finding the joy in today : practical readings for living with chronic illness / Sefra Kobrin Pitzele. p. cm. Originally published: One more day, c 1988. Includes index. ISBN 1-56838-348-7 1. Chronically ill Prayer-books and devotions- English. 2. Devotional calendars. 1. Title. BV4910.P57 1999 242'.4-dc21 99-37665 CIP Cover design by David Spohn Interior design by Donna Burch Typesetting by Stanton Publication Services, Inc.

Page iii Note To The Reader While living with a chronic health condition can be difficult, it is not impossible. When you search for growth and joy in life, an ongoing health condition can provide a positive life force. When you set new personal goals ones that you can reachI pray you will find your inner strength by believing in yourself and finding and serving your source of Higher Power. Marvelous opportunities for growth and joy await usthrough doors we can open and pass through. Lean into your life and learn to be gentler and kinder to yourself. SEFRA KOBRIN PITZELE

Page v Introduction As the new millennium approaches, we find that one out of three people have ongoingor chronicillness to deal with every day. This represents a huge number of people who may have difficulty embracing joy in their lives. This book is written to help you take each day in small, successful bites. It is hoped you will learn to see the joy each day can provide, in spite of your chronic health problems. I hope this book will help fulfill your need for connection. Every day make a special effort to renew your spirityour sense of attachment to nature and to the greater world around you. Do this by taking a moment to hear a child laugh, to listen to birds sing, or to reach out with a friendly smile or hug. When I wrote my first book, We Are Not Alone: Learning to Live with Chronic Illness, I was new at being chronically ill. I have learned that it is in moving out of yourself to reach another that renews one's spirit. Life can be so wonderful that we must not waste a single day. Renew your spirit every day. I pray, for you, joy-filled days.

Page 1 January 1 The beginning is the most important part of the work. PLATO On occasion we feel a bit sad as we ready ourselves for bed, knowing that our bedtime routine marks the end of another day. We may experience a slight sense of losstime lost, opportunities lost, a piece of life gone forever. Or we may be filled with regret over words uttered harshly. We can put this back into perspective with the realization that the nicest part about going to bed at night is knowing the daylight will come in the morning. We can't erase today's mistakes, but we can leave them with the day now past. We can set our sights on tomorrow. The day we awaken to will hold a golden opportunityto make amends, to make changes, to use our time well, to start the rest of our lives anew. My life is made of some endings and many beginnings. I can choose to end an unproductive pattern by seeing it as a chance to begin.

Page 2 January 2 Our share of night to bear, Our share of morning... EMILY DICKINSON We pray for one more day. One more week. Just until the next marker of time or the next major event occurs. "Just let me live until spring," we pray, "until my newest grandchild is born... until my next birthday." We pray and may not even recognize these silent, secret pleas as being prayers. It's human nature to ask for a little more time. Most of us feel as though we have not completed our role on earth. Time, however, is gradually becoming more of a friend than an enemy. We have today, which is all that anyonehealthy or chronically illreally ever has. No one has an iron-clad promise of weeks, months, or years. Our acceptance of life's unpredictability frees us of our preoccupation with

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