Monday, June 7, 2009
Today's Gift
Anger can multiply our difficulties in many situations. All of us can look back and remember times when we only made our problems worse because we stepped on the gas and lost all ability to use the brakes.
Now we are growing into more adulthood. We are learning to manage our feelings and use them well. This doesn't happen overnight. We would do well to recall how energized we have felt when we let our anger fly and how much we loved that energy at the moment. Only later did we face the damage we caused. Saying we are sorry isn't enough: we must also be willing to take on the harder task of changing our behavior. When we accept that we love the power and the energy of our anger and aggression, we can begin to rein it in and take charge of it rather than be ruled by it.
Today I will not indulge in the pleasure of anger allowed to run wild.
You are reading from the book:
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Twenty-Four Hours a Day
Keep It Simple
It's not enough to talk to plants, you also have to listen.---David Bergman
Sometimes, we find ourselves doing all the talking. When this happens, we need to stop, think, and listen.When we do all the talking, we're trying to control what happens. But when we listen, we get better results. No one has to be in control. What a relief! And we're learning to listen better every day. It's great---the care, love, and help we find---just by listening.
Prayer for the Day: Higher Power, help me learn the "give-and-take" of talking and listening.
Action for the Day: Today, I'll focus on listening, not only to other people but to my Higher Power's voice.
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One Day At A Time
Threads
That sense of being different, which had long plagued me, disappeared
when I saw the threads that run through all of us.
Sharing our stories, our feelings,
it is the areas where we are the same that impress me.
The differences are but delightful flourishes on the surface,
like different-colored costumes, and I enjoy them.
But the basic ways we are human, the basic ways we simply are,
stand out to me now. I came to see that we are really one,
and I no longer feel alone. Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 347
Thought to Ponder . . . I am unique, just like everyone else.
AA-related 'Alconym' . . .Y A N A = You Are Not Alone.
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Daily Motivation
Even if you have nothing else, you have something more precious than the purest gold, more rare and desirable than the brightest diamond. You have life.
That's because you stand solidly in the present. You're able to break free of whatever has happened in the past and to create your future in the way you desire.
Visit my BLOG the "Work-In" at
http://thework-in.blogspot.com
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"We can overcome if we change the way we See: See ourselves, See our past, See our possibilities." Daniel Beaty -Emergence See-
"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail." Ralph Waldo Emerson
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