Monday, December 19, 2016
Today's Gift
As addicts, we had lots of fear. Some of us were afraid of failure. So we didn't try to do much. Or else we tried too hard all the time. We used alcohol and other drugs to forget our fear, but it didn't go away. It got worse. Now we know we don't have to be afraid. When our lives are in the care of our Higher Power, we're safe. Faith is the cure for out fear. But still, fear keeps creeping back inside us. That's okay. It's normal. There is so much that's new in our sober life! We don't know what will happen next. It's hard to always remember to trust our Higher Power. It's hard to always do what our Higher Power says. It's hard to always have faith. We have to practice turning our fear over to our Higher Power.
Prayer for the Day: Higher Power, be with me when I'm afraid. Help me remember to have faith to believe in You, even when my fear tells me not to.
Action for the Day: Today, I'll notice my fear and pray each time get afraid.
From: Bluidkiti's Alcohol and Drug Addictions Recovery Help/Support Forums
There is a Solution
Almost none of us liked the self-searching, the leveling of our pride, the confession of shortcomings which the process requires for its successful consummation.
But we saw that it really worked in others, and we had come to believe in the hopelessness
and futility of life as we had been living it. When, therefore, we were approached
by those in whom the problem had been solved, there was nothing left for us
but to pick up the simple kit of spiritual tools laid at our feet.
We have found much of heaven and we have been rocketed into a fourth dimension of existence of which we had not even dreamed.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 25
Thought to Ponder . . .
The solution is simple. The solution is spiritual.
AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
S O L U T I O N S = Saving Our Lives Using The Inventory Of Needed Steps
Excerpt of The Daily Motivator
Positive example
by Ralph Marston
Don’t let someone else’s negativity become yours. These moments that are your life are too valuable to waste on that.
When another person is rude, thoughtless, disrespectful or worse, don’t react by sinking to that level yourself. Instead, let it motivate you to be even more understanding, thoughtful, and kind.
Reflecting negativity back at others does not teach them a lesson. A far more influential choice is to serve as a positive example.
Certainly you don’t want to allow others to take advantage of you. But neither do you want them to turn you against your highest, treasured values.
The best way to win is not by fighting. The best way to win is by being so strong, so positively purposeful that a fight never starts in the first place.
The petty negativity of others does not have to get to you. Because you can choose, in a loving, generous, amiable way, to live beyond it.
Open your mind and your heart to be still. —Shawn Phillips
In this time of international conflict and mistrust it is easy to despair. At times we may even feel hopeless as we hear about wars and weapons. But there is hope! Change can grow from within each of us.
The world is like a tree - if the tree is diseased and the leaves brown and brittle; the gardener does not treat the branches, but tends to the roots. Our world is made up of nations, in which there are states containing communities of neighborhoods where individual people live. We are the roots of our world tree. As attitudes change; as we accept and love ourselves honestly and learn, in turn, to accept and love others regardless of our differences, slowly, the branches that extend from us and cover the world will grow strong. The peace we can make within ourselves can be reflected everywhere.
Will I find the peace within myself today?
From Today's Gift: Daily Meditations for Families ©
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
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."Franklin D. Roosevelt
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."Franklin D. Roosevelt
As addicts, we had lots of fear. Some of us were afraid of failure. So we didn't try to do much. Or else we tried too hard all the time. We used alcohol and other drugs to forget our fear, but it didn't go away. It got worse. Now we know we don't have to be afraid. When our lives are in the care of our Higher Power, we're safe. Faith is the cure for out fear. But still, fear keeps creeping back inside us. That's okay. It's normal. There is so much that's new in our sober life! We don't know what will happen next. It's hard to always remember to trust our Higher Power. It's hard to always do what our Higher Power says. It's hard to always have faith. We have to practice turning our fear over to our Higher Power.
Prayer for the Day: Higher Power, be with me when I'm afraid. Help me remember to have faith to believe in You, even when my fear tells me not to.
Action for the Day: Today, I'll notice my fear and pray each time get afraid.
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
There is a Solution
Almost none of us liked the self-searching, the leveling of our pride, the confession of shortcomings which the process requires for its successful consummation.
But we saw that it really worked in others, and we had come to believe in the hopelessness
and futility of life as we had been living it. When, therefore, we were approached
by those in whom the problem had been solved, there was nothing left for us
but to pick up the simple kit of spiritual tools laid at our feet.
We have found much of heaven and we have been rocketed into a fourth dimension of existence of which we had not even dreamed.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 25
Thought to Ponder . . .
The solution is simple. The solution is spiritual.
AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
S O L U T I O N S = Saving Our Lives Using The Inventory Of Needed Steps
From: AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net)
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Daily Motivation
Excerpt of The Daily Motivator
Positive example
by Ralph Marston
Don’t let someone else’s negativity become yours. These moments that are your life are too valuable to waste on that.
When another person is rude, thoughtless, disrespectful or worse, don’t react by sinking to that level yourself. Instead, let it motivate you to be even more understanding, thoughtful, and kind.
Reflecting negativity back at others does not teach them a lesson. A far more influential choice is to serve as a positive example.
Certainly you don’t want to allow others to take advantage of you. But neither do you want them to turn you against your highest, treasured values.
The best way to win is not by fighting. The best way to win is by being so strong, so positively purposeful that a fight never starts in the first place.
The petty negativity of others does not have to get to you. Because you can choose, in a loving, generous, amiable way, to live beyond it.
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