Tuesday, June 21, 2016
Today's Gift
Action for the Day: Today I will slow down to get in touch with the rhythms of my life and life outside me.
Easy Does It
If a strong inner core of peace, patience, and contentment looks at all desirable to you, it can be had.
Remind yourself once in a while that maybe “Easy Does It” is this day’s ideal speed.
The change can start right now, remember?
- Living Sober, p. 46
Thought to Ponder . . .
Rashness and haste make all things insecure: Take it easy!
AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
S W A T = Surrender, Willingness, Action, Trust
Excerpt of The Daily Motivator
Silent reflection
by Ralph Marston
For just a while, calm your thoughts. In this moment, simply be.
There is much in your life, and there is much more to come. Yet you have always been, and you always are, more than enough.
For a moment, let go of the way you appear and the things you’ve done. Feel the truth and power of who you are.
In silence, there is much you can know. Beyond thought, there is much you can understand.
Touch the person who always lives inside the person you are. Be immersed in the beauty and wonder of being.
Feel the strength that is always there. And know that whatever may come, all is well.
Freedom is like taking a bath - you have to keep doing it every day! --Flo Kennedy
Nothing stands still. Change is the law of life. We may sometimes feel that our personal gains have to be won over and over again. But looked at from another perspective, that's not so: our solid personal gains are the ones that no one and nothing can take away from us.
They are tools for continued growth. Jobs, lovers, houses may change, but serenity and freedom of spirit are within our power to achieve - to maintain - or to give away.
Freedom means choice -- our choice of what we do with our bodies, our money, our lives. If we decline to choose, the choice will be made for us. If we don't use or claim our freedom, we are giving it away. Our lives need our active, creative participation every moment.
Like bathing, I must daily exercise my freedom. No one can do it for me.
From the book The Promise of a New Day by Karen Casey & Martha Vanceburg. ©
From: Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation - Thought for the Day http://www.hazeldenbettyford.org/recovery/thought-for-the-day
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Twenty-Four Hours a Day
Keep It Simple
Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health. --Montaigne
Our program isn't working. We are misunderstood. Nothing's going well at work. We just can't see it through. Why doesn't someone help us?
Impatience! We become fretful and blame others for our shortcomings.
Impatience! We lose touch with the tempo of life and our own particular rhythm.
Impatience! We are convinced our addiction will never cease tormenting us.
Let's slow down and get back in touch with life's movement. We know that all things have their season and their motion and their end. It may feel like winter now, but spring will come and then summer. Nothing remains static; everything changes and grows. There is a pattern to all life including ours -- if we are patient enough to discern it.
Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health. --Montaigne
Our program isn't working. We are misunderstood. Nothing's going well at work. We just can't see it through. Why doesn't someone help us?
Impatience! We become fretful and blame others for our shortcomings.
Impatience! We lose touch with the tempo of life and our own particular rhythm.
Impatience! We are convinced our addiction will never cease tormenting us.
Let's slow down and get back in touch with life's movement. We know that all things have their season and their motion and their end. It may feel like winter now, but spring will come and then summer. Nothing remains static; everything changes and grows. There is a pattern to all life including ours -- if we are patient enough to discern it.
Action for the Day: Today I will slow down to get in touch with the rhythms of my life and life outside me.
From: Bluidkiti's Alcohol and Drug Addictions Recovery Help/Support Forums
Daily Recovery Readings - http://www.bluidkiti.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=2
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One Day At A Time
Easy Does It
If a strong inner core of peace, patience, and contentment looks at all desirable to you, it can be had.
Remind yourself once in a while that maybe “Easy Does It” is this day’s ideal speed.
The change can start right now, remember?
- Living Sober, p. 46
Thought to Ponder . . .
Rashness and haste make all things insecure: Take it easy!
AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
S W A T = Surrender, Willingness, Action, Trust
From: AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net)
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Daily Motivation
Excerpt of The Daily Motivator
Silent reflection
by Ralph Marston
For just a while, calm your thoughts. In this moment, simply be.
There is much in your life, and there is much more to come. Yet you have always been, and you always are, more than enough.
For a moment, let go of the way you appear and the things you’ve done. Feel the truth and power of who you are.
In silence, there is much you can know. Beyond thought, there is much you can understand.
Touch the person who always lives inside the person you are. Be immersed in the beauty and wonder of being.
Feel the strength that is always there. And know that whatever may come, all is well.
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