Wednesday, February 1, 2017
Today's Gift
Prayer for the Day: Higher Power, I have learned to believe in You. Help me believe in myself.
PowerlessnessOur admissions of personal powerlessness finally turn out
to be firm bedrock upon which happy and purposeful lives may be built.
- As Bill Sees It, p. 135
Thought to Ponder . . .
Reliance on my Higher Power enables me to match calamity with serenity.
AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
L E T G O = Leave Everything To God, Okay?
Humility
by Ralph Marston
In addition to persistent, ongoing effort, continued success requires humility. If you grow arrogant after a few accomplishments, you’re not likely to have many more.
With each success you gain more confidence, and that’s great. When you’ve done it before, you know that you can do it again.
Yet even as your confidence level grows higher and higher, do not make the mistake of discarding your humility. For humility keeps you reasonable, respectful, thankful, thoughtful and realistic, and those are all qualities essential for continued success.
Thinking that you’re entitled to something just because you want it is a reliable recipe for failure and disappointment. Humility reminds you that in order to receive value, you must create value in equal measure.
While it is certainly possible to accomplish things without humility, those accomplishments will be empty and short-lived. Those people who enjoy meaningful success and fulfillment year after year and decade after decade are those people who know the value of humility.
Choose to be strong enough and smart enough to live with genuine humility. The rewards for doing so will show up throughout your whole life.
You were there when I needed you. You stood above all of the others with your strength and you guided me. To each of you I offer my being, my love and all that I am. —Deidra Sarault
Each of us is guided while we act as guides to one another, throughout the day, throughout our lives. We are interdependent. Everywhere we look, someone is learning from us and we from them. We often know not what we give, when we give it. And we seldom realize the value of what we're receiving at the time we accept it.
Resistance to what another person is offering us may be our natural response. But the passage of time highlights the value of the experience. We can look for the comforters in our lives. They are there offering us strength and hope enough to see us through any difficulty.
We need both the rough times and the soft shoulders of a friend. They contribute equally to the designs our lives are weaving. The rough times press us to pray, to reach out to others for solace. And our pain gives others the chance to heal our wounds. We are all healers offering strength. And we all need healing.
One of the greatest gifts of life is giving and receiving strength.
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
They is no they, only us .--Bumper sticker
For most of us, addiction was full of doubt. We stopped believing in ourselves. Our thoughts had turned to "stinking thinking." We didn't believe in much of anything. We didn't take risk. We always looked for the easier, softer way. In recovery, we start to believe again. We believe in the program. We believe in a Higher Power. We believe in people. And, over time, we believe in ourselves again. We become better at taking risk. We are able to stay sober because we believe, because we take risk. As we stay sober, we can face almost anything---with the help of others.
They is no they, only us .--Bumper sticker
For most of us, addiction was full of doubt. We stopped believing in ourselves. Our thoughts had turned to "stinking thinking." We didn't believe in much of anything. We didn't take risk. We always looked for the easier, softer way. In recovery, we start to believe again. We believe in the program. We believe in a Higher Power. We believe in people. And, over time, we believe in ourselves again. We become better at taking risk. We are able to stay sober because we believe, because we take risk. As we stay sober, we can face almost anything---with the help of others.
Prayer for the Day: Higher Power, I have learned to believe in You. Help me believe in myself.
Action for the Day: I have something to give to this world. Higher Power me give it freely.
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
PowerlessnessOur admissions of personal powerlessness finally turn out
to be firm bedrock upon which happy and purposeful lives may be built.
- As Bill Sees It, p. 135
Thought to Ponder . . .
Reliance on my Higher Power enables me to match calamity with serenity.
AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
L E T G O = Leave Everything To God, Okay?
From: AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net)
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Daily Motivation
Excerpt of The Daily Motivator
Humility
by Ralph Marston
In addition to persistent, ongoing effort, continued success requires humility. If you grow arrogant after a few accomplishments, you’re not likely to have many more.
With each success you gain more confidence, and that’s great. When you’ve done it before, you know that you can do it again.
Yet even as your confidence level grows higher and higher, do not make the mistake of discarding your humility. For humility keeps you reasonable, respectful, thankful, thoughtful and realistic, and those are all qualities essential for continued success.
Thinking that you’re entitled to something just because you want it is a reliable recipe for failure and disappointment. Humility reminds you that in order to receive value, you must create value in equal measure.
While it is certainly possible to accomplish things without humility, those accomplishments will be empty and short-lived. Those people who enjoy meaningful success and fulfillment year after year and decade after decade are those people who know the value of humility.
Choose to be strong enough and smart enough to live with genuine humility. The rewards for doing so will show up throughout your whole life.
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