Monday, October 17, 2016
Today's Gift
We each have colorful ideas waiting to be shared. We’re alive inside. But do we let this side of us show? Our disease stole much of the child like openness. Many of us were taught that growing up meant denying the child within us. Many of us grew up in homes where it wasn’t safe to act alive and creative. Whatever the reason, it’s time to claim the child, the artist, in each of us. Each of our programs is different, and each has its artistic touch. When we tell our stories, we share our life. And our lives are unique and alive. The more alive we become, the more color we bring to others and ourselves. Let’s not be afraid to add color to our lives.
Prayer for the Day: Higher Power, help me claim the child inside of me. Joy is choice. Help me choose it.
Action for the Day: Today, I’ll work at not hiding myself from others. I’ll be alive, and I’ll greet everyone I meet with the openness of a child.
From: Bluidkiti's Alcohol and Drug Addictions Recovery Help/Support Forums
Healing Ourselves
Trying to heal ourselves by helping others works, even when it is an insincere gesture.
Try it some time. If you really listen to (not just hear) what is being said,
you may find the person talking has quietly slipped inside your head
and seems to be describing the landscape there—the shifting shapes of nameless fears,
the color and chill of impending doom—if not the actual events and words stored in your brain.
- Living Sober, p. 85
Thought to Ponder . . .
Once we understand ourselves, the rest of living falls in line.
AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
H E A R T = Healing, Enjoying, And Recovering Together
Excerpt of The Daily Motivator
Gift of achievement
by Ralph Marston
Decide right now to make this commitment. Promise yourself that in one hour you’ll look back on the previous hour with great satisfaction.
Schedule yourself, just an hour from now, to be grateful and excited about what you’ve just done. Then get busy and create that positive moment.
Give yourself the gift of achievement. Watch yourself, feel the satisfaction, as you get good things done.
Experience the power of your own focus. Stay centered on the specific difference you’ve chosen to make.
Boost your confidence, your optimism, your attitude and your effectiveness. Invest the next hour becoming a more positive and accomplished version of you.
That investment begins paying dividends immediately, and for a long time to come. Make the commitment, do the work, and enjoy the rewards you’re already earning.
Pride, we are told, my children, "goeth before a fall" and oh, the pride was there, and so the fall was not far away. —Wilhelmina Kemp Johnstone
Requesting help. Admitting we are wrong. Owning our mistake in either a big or small matter. Asking for another chance or someone's love. All very difficult to do, and yet necessary if we are to grow. The difficulty is our pride, the big ego. We think, "We need to always be right. If we're wrong, then others may think less of us, look down on us, and question our worth." Perfectionism versus worthlessness.
If we are not perfect (and of course we never are), then we must be worthless. In between these two points on the scale is "being human." Our emotional growth is equal to how readily we accept our humanness, how able we are to be wrong. With humility comes a softness that smoothes our every experience, our every relationship. Pride makes us hard, keeps us hard, keeps others away, and sets us up for the fall.
I will let myself be human today. It will soften my vision of life.
From Each Day a New Beginning: Daily Meditations for Women by Karen Casey ©
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
Every child is an artist. The problem is remain an artist once your grow up.---Pablo Picasso
Every child is an artist. The problem is remain an artist once your grow up.---Pablo Picasso
We each have colorful ideas waiting to be shared. We’re alive inside. But do we let this side of us show? Our disease stole much of the child like openness. Many of us were taught that growing up meant denying the child within us. Many of us grew up in homes where it wasn’t safe to act alive and creative. Whatever the reason, it’s time to claim the child, the artist, in each of us. Each of our programs is different, and each has its artistic touch. When we tell our stories, we share our life. And our lives are unique and alive. The more alive we become, the more color we bring to others and ourselves. Let’s not be afraid to add color to our lives.
Prayer for the Day: Higher Power, help me claim the child inside of me. Joy is choice. Help me choose it.
Action for the Day: Today, I’ll work at not hiding myself from others. I’ll be alive, and I’ll greet everyone I meet with the openness of a child.
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
Healing Ourselves
Trying to heal ourselves by helping others works, even when it is an insincere gesture.
Try it some time. If you really listen to (not just hear) what is being said,
you may find the person talking has quietly slipped inside your head
and seems to be describing the landscape there—the shifting shapes of nameless fears,
the color and chill of impending doom—if not the actual events and words stored in your brain.
- Living Sober, p. 85
Thought to Ponder . . .
Once we understand ourselves, the rest of living falls in line.
AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
H E A R T = Healing, Enjoying, And Recovering Together
From: AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net)
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Daily Motivation
Excerpt of The Daily Motivator
Gift of achievement
by Ralph Marston
Decide right now to make this commitment. Promise yourself that in one hour you’ll look back on the previous hour with great satisfaction.
Schedule yourself, just an hour from now, to be grateful and excited about what you’ve just done. Then get busy and create that positive moment.
Give yourself the gift of achievement. Watch yourself, feel the satisfaction, as you get good things done.
Experience the power of your own focus. Stay centered on the specific difference you’ve chosen to make.
Boost your confidence, your optimism, your attitude and your effectiveness. Invest the next hour becoming a more positive and accomplished version of you.
That investment begins paying dividends immediately, and for a long time to come. Make the commitment, do the work, and enjoy the rewards you’re already earning.
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