Monday, February 13, 2017
Today's Gift
Preoccupation with self can be the bane of our existence. It prevents all but the narrowest perspective on any problem. It cuts off any guidance from our higher power that may be offered through a friend. It blocks whatever truths are trying to gain our attention. The paradox is that whatever our pain, it is lessened by turning our attention elsewhere, to another's pain or her joy.
When we open our minds to fresh input from others, insights emerge. We need the messages others are trying to give us. Nothing that is said in a loving spirit is empty of meaning for our lives.
We might consider that every conversation we have is a conversation with our Creator. What we need to know, for our own growth, is guaranteed to be revealed in our many conversations with others. But we can't hear another's thoughts until we let go of our own.
From: Bluidkiti's Alcohol and Drug Addictions Recovery Help/Support Forums
Prayer
Those of us who have come to make regular use of prayer would
no more do without it than we would refuse air, food, or sunshine.
And for the same reason.
- 12 & 12, p. 97
Thought to Ponder . . .
Trying to pray is praying.
AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
P R A Y E R = Praying Regularly Allows Your Everyday Recovery
Excerpt of The Daily Motivator
Pressing on
by Ralph Marston
When you’re ready to quit, that’s when you can make the biggest difference by pressing on. When you feel like giving up, you’re closer to a breakthrough than ever before.
How do you find the strength to keep going? You don’t worry about finding strength, just take one step after another.
Feel weariness as you choose to transform it into new energy. Feel discouragement as you choose to make it into fresh enthusiasm.
You can persist, because the reward for doing so is great. You’ve pushed yourself this far and you can use that same kind of push to keep yourself going.
Achievement is hard work, and you’ve already done a great deal of it. Now, as the payoff nears, keep going and do the rest.
Feel new determination as it floods into your awareness. You’ve already earned great value, so keep at it and claim your reward.
I gave myself permission to feel and experience all of my emotions. In order to do that, I had to stop being afraid to feel. In order to do that, I taught myself to believe that no matter what I felt or what happened when I felt it, I would be okay. --Iyanla Vanzant
Leaving Room for Feelings
We need to allow enough room for others and ourselves to have and work through our feelings.
We are people, not robots. An important part of us - who we are, how we grow, how we live - is connected to our emotional center. We have feelings, sometimes - difficult ones, sometimes-disruptive ones, and sometimes-explosive ones that need to be worked through.
By facing and working through these feelings we and others grow. In relationships, whether it be a love relationship, a friendship, a family relationship, or a close business relationship, people need room to have and work through their feelings.
Some call it "going through the process."
We need time to work through feelings. We need the space and permission to work through these feelings in the awkward, uncomfortable, sometimes messy way that people work through feelings.
This is life. This is growth. This is okay.
I can set reasonable boundaries for behavior and still leave room for a range of emotions.
From The Language of Letting Go by Melody Beattie ©
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
It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you. --Lady Bird Johnson
It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you. --Lady Bird Johnson
Preoccupation with self can be the bane of our existence. It prevents all but the narrowest perspective on any problem. It cuts off any guidance from our higher power that may be offered through a friend. It blocks whatever truths are trying to gain our attention. The paradox is that whatever our pain, it is lessened by turning our attention elsewhere, to another's pain or her joy.
When we open our minds to fresh input from others, insights emerge. We need the messages others are trying to give us. Nothing that is said in a loving spirit is empty of meaning for our lives.
We might consider that every conversation we have is a conversation with our Creator. What we need to know, for our own growth, is guaranteed to be revealed in our many conversations with others. But we can't hear another's thoughts until we let go of our own.
Action for the Day: Today I will give full attention to the persons sent to me to offer me exactly what I need, today. My inner guide has beckoned them. I will be alert, expect solutions, and celebrate the wonder of it all.
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
Prayer
Those of us who have come to make regular use of prayer would
no more do without it than we would refuse air, food, or sunshine.
And for the same reason.
- 12 & 12, p. 97
Thought to Ponder . . .
Trying to pray is praying.
AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
P R A Y E R = Praying Regularly Allows Your Everyday Recovery
From: AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net)
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Daily Motivation
Excerpt of The Daily Motivator
Pressing on
by Ralph Marston
When you’re ready to quit, that’s when you can make the biggest difference by pressing on. When you feel like giving up, you’re closer to a breakthrough than ever before.
How do you find the strength to keep going? You don’t worry about finding strength, just take one step after another.
Feel weariness as you choose to transform it into new energy. Feel discouragement as you choose to make it into fresh enthusiasm.
You can persist, because the reward for doing so is great. You’ve pushed yourself this far and you can use that same kind of push to keep yourself going.
Achievement is hard work, and you’ve already done a great deal of it. Now, as the payoff nears, keep going and do the rest.
Feel new determination as it floods into your awareness. You’ve already earned great value, so keep at it and claim your reward.
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