Tuesday, September 22, 2015
Today's Gift
Time never challenged the Indian or worked against him. Time was for silently marking the passing of the seasons. It was a thing to be enjoyed. —Tim Giago
We have a choice as to how we view the passage of time. We can look at it as a gift to be enjoyed, marking the transitions and cycles of life. Or we can think of time as a long, thin string of pressures and frustrations - specific minutes and hours that we try to speed up or slow down. Our relationship to time is a very important part of our personal growth.
We are learning to live in the present, one day at a time. We are letting go of the past. The future we place in trust to our Higher Power. Time doesn't work against us or challenge us - it just flows. This day need not be painless or close to paradise for us to live in the present moment. Being aware of our lives without struggling against time makes the day rich and full of meaning.
Today, rather than wrestling with time, I will be aware of my experiences and let time flow.
From Touchstones: A Book of Daily Meditations for Men ©
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Twenty-Four Hours a Day
This slogan means we are to take with us only the joys and
problems of the present day.
We don’t carry with us the mistakes of the days gone by. We
have no room for them. We are to work at loving others today.
Just today.
It’s crazy for us to think we can handle more than one day at a
time. During our illness, we lived everywhere but in the here
and now. We looked to the future or punished ourselves with
our past. One Day at a Time teaches us to go easy. It teaches
us to focus on what really means anything to us: the here and now.
Prayer for the Day: Higher Power, help me turn the slogans
of my programs into a way of life. Help me to live life moment
by moment, One Day at a Time.
Action for the Day: Today, I’ll practice living in the present.
When I find myself living in the past or in the future, I’ll bring
myself back to today.
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One Day At A Time
Some of us have taken very hard knocks to learn this truth: Job or no job -- wife or no wife --
we simply do not stop living in our dysfunction so long as we place dependence upon other people ahead of dependence on our Higher Power.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 98
Thought to Ponder . . .
I cannot mend if I bend the truth.
AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
G I F T = God Is Forever There.
Read more at: http://dailythought.aa-alive.org/discussions
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Daily Motivation
If you want to live richly, live intentionally. Choose what you wish to create, and then experience the immense satisfaction of making it so.
Instead of being consumed with doubts and fears about what might happen, be focused on what you will cause to happen. Listen to your heart, and take the initiatives that most closely resonate with what you hear.
Absolutely accept and embrace whatever randomness life brings your way. Yet do it from a perspective of your own choosing.
Get the very most from each day by making the intentional choice of how to spend it. Instead of being pushed in a hundred different directions by the conflict and complexity that surrounds you, harness the energy of your passion and purpose.
Direct yourself, consistently and persistently, toward the places, situations, experiences, people and results that you wish to have in your life. You have more than enough energy, opportunities and ability, when focused in a specific direction, to achieve whatever you choose.
So choose to choose. Decide how your life will be, this hour, this day, this year, this century, and live the true richness of making it happen.
— Ralph Marston
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