Friday, November 11, 2016
Today's Gift
Living means facing all of life. Life is joy and sorrow. We used to be people who wanted the joy without the sorrow. But we can learn from hard times, maybe more than we do in easy times. Often, getting through hard times helps us grow. When things get tough, maybe we want to turn and run. Then, a gentle voice from within us say, “I am with you. You have friends who will help.” If we listen, we’ll hear our Higher Power. This is what is meant by “conscious contact” in Step eleven. As this conscious contact grows, our courage grows. And we find the strength to face hard times.
Prayer for the Day: I pray for the strength and courage to live. I pray that I’ll never have to face hard time alone again.
Action for the Day: I’ll list two examples of conscious contact” in my life.
From: Bluidkiti's Alcohol and Drug Addictions Recovery Help/Support Forums
Failure
“In God’s economy, nothing is wasted. Through failure, we learn a lesson in humility
which is probably needed, painful though it is.”
- As Bill Sees It, p. 31
Thought to Ponder . . .
This thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.
AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
F A I L U R E = Fearful, Arrogant, Insecure, Lonely, Uncertain, Resentful, Empty
From: AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net)
Excerpt of The Daily Motivator
The deeper you go
by Ralph Marston
All people have very real reasons for believing what they believe, for feeling what they feel. Your best strategy is to understand those reasons.
If you want to find common ground, you have to do more than just advocate your own position. You have to listen, understand, empathize, compromise.
Drama and outrage are the junk food of human relationships. Their empty calories quickly satisfy, but provide no lasting nourishment.
Understanding and cooperation are difficult, time consuming, demanding, humbling. Yet they are what produce real progress.
Problems are not solved by shouting, blaming, judgment and recrimination. Choose instead to take a deep breath, let go of anxieties, and get to work creating value.
No matter how much you differ with someone on the surface, the deeper you go, the more you’ll find in common. Do the work, spend the time, care enough to create deep connections, and get great things done.
Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it. —Malcolm X
It does little good to complain about our wives or parents or lovers. We only accentuate our role as victims when we say, "I would be happier if they were different." "If they would just get off my back, I would act better." We each have a side, which is loyal to the victim within. Some of us take comfort in acting helpless and being taken care of; some of us relish the power of being catered to; some of us wallow in self-pity. These patterns of thought impede our growth and put a drag on our relationships. When we decide that we aren't willing to live this way any longer, we are ready to assert our independence.
Real emancipation can't come at someone else's initiative or as a gift. It can only begin from within, by saying, "I will take my independence." Then we begin to be responsible men because we own it on the inside.
Today, I will not wait for others to set me free. I will do what is within my own power to be a free person.
From Touchstones: A Book of Daily Meditations for Men ©
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
Have the courage to live; anyone can die.---Robert Cody
Have the courage to live; anyone can die.---Robert Cody
Living means facing all of life. Life is joy and sorrow. We used to be people who wanted the joy without the sorrow. But we can learn from hard times, maybe more than we do in easy times. Often, getting through hard times helps us grow. When things get tough, maybe we want to turn and run. Then, a gentle voice from within us say, “I am with you. You have friends who will help.” If we listen, we’ll hear our Higher Power. This is what is meant by “conscious contact” in Step eleven. As this conscious contact grows, our courage grows. And we find the strength to face hard times.
Prayer for the Day: I pray for the strength and courage to live. I pray that I’ll never have to face hard time alone again.
Action for the Day: I’ll list two examples of conscious contact” in my life.
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
Failure
“In God’s economy, nothing is wasted. Through failure, we learn a lesson in humility
which is probably needed, painful though it is.”
- As Bill Sees It, p. 31
Thought to Ponder . . .
This thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.
AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
F A I L U R E = Fearful, Arrogant, Insecure, Lonely, Uncertain, Resentful, Empty
From: AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net)
Excerpt of The Daily Motivator
The deeper you go
by Ralph Marston
All people have very real reasons for believing what they believe, for feeling what they feel. Your best strategy is to understand those reasons.
If you want to find common ground, you have to do more than just advocate your own position. You have to listen, understand, empathize, compromise.
Drama and outrage are the junk food of human relationships. Their empty calories quickly satisfy, but provide no lasting nourishment.
Understanding and cooperation are difficult, time consuming, demanding, humbling. Yet they are what produce real progress.
Problems are not solved by shouting, blaming, judgment and recrimination. Choose instead to take a deep breath, let go of anxieties, and get to work creating value.
No matter how much you differ with someone on the surface, the deeper you go, the more you’ll find in common. Do the work, spend the time, care enough to create deep connections, and get great things done.
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