Around the Do Not Call list

I believe that a few credit card companies have been positioning themselves to get around the Federal Do Not Call list.  We recently received a gift card from WalMart that was actually a prepaid Visa, but to activate the card we had to call the number and provide the receipt number, our full name, our address, our phone number, and our social security number.  We declined.  On reading the details of the agreement that comes with the card, there’s fees all over the place, including a yearly fee.

Daily Reflection

Thought I’d share one of my personal fave quotes that I’ve referred to often over the last several years.  It’s from the AA “Big Book,” but don’t let that put you off:

Daily Reflections    1990 AA

May 1        Healing Heart and Mind

Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact
nature of our wrongs.
- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions p.55

Since it is true that God comes to me through people, I can see that by keeping people at a distance I also keep God at a distance. God is nearer to me than I think and I can experience Him by loving people and allowing people to love me. But I can neither love nor be loved if I allow my secrets to get in the way.
It’s the side of myself that I refuse to look at that rules me. I must be willing to look at the dark side in order to heal my mind and heart because that is the road to freedom. I must walk into darkness to find the light and walk into fear to find peace.
By revealing my secrets — and thereby ridding myself of guilt — I can actually change my thinking; by altering my thinking, I can change myself. My thoughts create my future. What I will be tomorrow is determined by what I think today.