Thursday, December 29, 2016
Today's Gift
As the sore tooth draws our tongue, so do rejections, affronts, painful criticisms, both past and present draw our minds. We court self-pity, both loving and hating it. But we can change this pattern. First we must decide we are ready to do so. The program tells us we must become "entirely ready." And then we must ask to have this shortcoming removed.
The desire to dwell on the injustices of our lives becomes habitual. It takes hours of our time. It influences our perceptions of all other experiences. We have to be willing to replace that time-consuming activity with one that's good and healthy.
We must be prepared for all of life to change. Our overriding self-pity has so tarnished our perceptions that we may never have sensed all the good that life daily offers. How often we see the glass as half-empty rather than half-full!
Acceptance
Nothing, absolutely nothing, happens in the world by mistake.
Until I could accept my alcoholism and addiction, I could not stay sober;
unless I accept life completely on life's terms, I cannot be happy.
I need to concentrate not so much on what needs to be changed in the world
as what needs to be changed in me and in my attitudes.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 417
Thought to Ponder . . .
Acceptance is the answer to all my problems today.
AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
A A = Altered Attitudes
Choose the best consequences
by Ralph Marston
Each thing you do has a consequence. Much of your life is the result of choices you have made, actions you have taken.
The things you do either erode the quality of your life or they enrich your life. Your actions either make your world a better place or they litter your world with despair, regret, and fear.
You can choose your consequences by choosing your actions. Even the small actions can have great consequence, because they are so often repeated.
This moment, this day affords you great power. For you can decide on the consequences that will be visited upon you tomorrow.
Are you about to do something that will cause regret and frustration later? Now is your chance to make a more positive choice, something for which you can always be thankful.
This moment is a choice, and you can be sure it will have consequences. Make the choice that will make life richer and more fulfilling for all.
Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. —Ralph Waldo Emerson
After we get a new understanding about ourselves we think, "Now I will never have to make the same mistake again!" But our lessons are usually not that easily learned. We have to get them into our muscles and bones as well as our heads. Some of us have to learn how to be kind; others, how to be good listeners or how to stand up for ourselves in many different ways. Every new situation calls on a little different way of knowing, and perhaps we have to fall a few times in the learning.
The most important asset in our lives is the faith to get up again and continue. We must accept our imperfections. Each time we fall and with each mistake we make, we're vulnerable to doubting and losing faith. By rising again, we make progress in our learning and continue to become a better person.
Today, I will have faith, even in the midst of my mistakes.
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
The human heart dares not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making. --Lillian Smith
The human heart dares not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making. --Lillian Smith
As the sore tooth draws our tongue, so do rejections, affronts, painful criticisms, both past and present draw our minds. We court self-pity, both loving and hating it. But we can change this pattern. First we must decide we are ready to do so. The program tells us we must become "entirely ready." And then we must ask to have this shortcoming removed.
The desire to dwell on the injustices of our lives becomes habitual. It takes hours of our time. It influences our perceptions of all other experiences. We have to be willing to replace that time-consuming activity with one that's good and healthy.
We must be prepared for all of life to change. Our overriding self-pity has so tarnished our perceptions that we may never have sensed all the good that life daily offers. How often we see the glass as half-empty rather than half-full!
Action for the Day: A new set of experiences awaits me today. And I can perceive them unfettered by the memories of the painful past. Self-pity need not cage me, today.
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
Acceptance
Nothing, absolutely nothing, happens in the world by mistake.
Until I could accept my alcoholism and addiction, I could not stay sober;
unless I accept life completely on life's terms, I cannot be happy.
I need to concentrate not so much on what needs to be changed in the world
as what needs to be changed in me and in my attitudes.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 417
Thought to Ponder . . .
Acceptance is the answer to all my problems today.
AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
A A = Altered Attitudes
From: AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net)
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Daily Motivation
Excerpt of The Daily Motivator
Choose the best consequences
by Ralph Marston
Each thing you do has a consequence. Much of your life is the result of choices you have made, actions you have taken.
The things you do either erode the quality of your life or they enrich your life. Your actions either make your world a better place or they litter your world with despair, regret, and fear.
You can choose your consequences by choosing your actions. Even the small actions can have great consequence, because they are so often repeated.
This moment, this day affords you great power. For you can decide on the consequences that will be visited upon you tomorrow.
Are you about to do something that will cause regret and frustration later? Now is your chance to make a more positive choice, something for which you can always be thankful.
This moment is a choice, and you can be sure it will have consequences. Make the choice that will make life richer and more fulfilling for all.
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