Wednesday, September 20, 2017
Today's Gift
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
---Mark Twain
Sometimes it does no good to try to “deal” with your feelings. For the
moment, we’re stuck. We can only see things one way. No matter
what anyone says, we’re closed up. For the moment. But this puts our
sobriety at risk.
How do we stop self-pity? Focus on someone else. When we really want
to help someone else be happy, we'll ask our Higher Power’s help.
Then things start to change, because our good deeds come back to us.
Remember, service will always keep us sober.
Prayer for the Day: Higher Power, sometimes I get stuck in my old ways.
Help me change my focus at those times. Help me stay sober.
Action for the Day: I will think of a time when I was stuck in bad feelings.
How did I get out of that spot.
Step Twelve
"Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry
this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs."
Outline the program of action, explaining how you made a self-appraisal,
how you straightened out your past and why you are now endeavoring to be
helpful to him. It is important for him to realize that your attempt to
pass this on to him plays a vital part in your own recovery. Actually,
he may be helping you more than you are helping him.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 94
Thought to Ponder
"Service made me feel useful. Twelfth Step work taught me to accept my past."
AA-related 'Alconym'
B E S T = Been Enjoying Sobriety Today
Excerpt of The Daily Motivator
You make a difference
Education should be the process of helping everyone to discover their uniqueness. —Leo Buscaglia
We are each special, which means there is not another person just like ourselves. Nobody looks just like us. Nobody's voice sounds quite like our own. And nobody thinks through a story just like we do.
Each of us has been created for a special purpose. Maybe it's for what we'll teach a friend, or the way we'll help a sister or a brother. Every day will give us chances to offer our special talents to others. Our being alive is Universe's way of proving that we're important to the family, the neighborhood, and the world.
What important task lies before me 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
---Mark Twain
Sometimes it does no good to try to “deal” with your feelings. For the
moment, we’re stuck. We can only see things one way. No matter
what anyone says, we’re closed up. For the moment. But this puts our
sobriety at risk.
How do we stop self-pity? Focus on someone else. When we really want
to help someone else be happy, we'll ask our Higher Power’s help.
Then things start to change, because our good deeds come back to us.
Remember, service will always keep us sober.
Prayer for the Day: Higher Power, sometimes I get stuck in my old ways.
Help me change my focus at those times. Help me stay sober.
Action for the Day: I will think of a time when I was stuck in bad feelings.
How did I get out of that spot.
Daily Recovery Readings - http://www.bluidkiti.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=2
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One Day At A Time
"Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry
this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs."
Outline the program of action, explaining how you made a self-appraisal,
how you straightened out your past and why you are now endeavoring to be
helpful to him. It is important for him to realize that your attempt to
pass this on to him plays a vital part in your own recovery. Actually,
he may be helping you more than you are helping him.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 94
Thought to Ponder
"Service made me feel useful. Twelfth Step work taught me to accept my past."
AA-related 'Alconym'
B E S T = Been Enjoying Sobriety Today
From: AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) http://www.aa-alive.net/index.html
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Daily Motivation
You make a difference
by Ralph Marston
What you do makes a difference. It may not seem like much, but it is.
What you do has an influence that goes far beyond you. What you do is an important part of the fabric of life.
The world around you is not only your home. It is your responsibility.
The way you see the world plays an important part in what the world becomes. Your vision for the future helps to create the future.
Live with hope, with joy, with love, and you add hope, joy, and love to the world. Live with honesty and integrity, and you give the power of truth to all of life.
Day in and day out, what you do truly matters, more than you can ever know. Live each moment as though what you do changes the world, because it surely does.
What you do makes a difference. It may not seem like much, but it is.
What you do has an influence that goes far beyond you. What you do is an important part of the fabric of life.
The world around you is not only your home. It is your responsibility.
The way you see the world plays an important part in what the world becomes. Your vision for the future helps to create the future.
Live with hope, with joy, with love, and you add hope, joy, and love to the world. Live with honesty and integrity, and you give the power of truth to all of life.
Day in and day out, what you do truly matters, more than you can ever know. Live each moment as though what you do changes the world, because it surely does.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
"Service made me feel useful. Twelfth Step work taught me to accept my past." For me, this was/is so very true!!! :-) :-0
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