Tuesday, October 17, 2017
Today's Gift
It’s okay to make mistakes. But we shouldn’t live a life of excuses. We shouldn’t slide over our mistakes; we should learn from them.
Excuses keep us part from ourselves and others. People don’t trust us if we won’t admit and accept our mistakes. Relying on excuses dooms us to repeat the same mistakes.
In recovery, we admit and accept our behavior. We do this by continuing to take an inventory of our lives. We do this so we can learn from our mistakes. “Owning” our mistakes helps us grow.
Prayer for the Day: Higher Power, help me own my mistakes. Thank-you for Step Ten and the growth it holds for me.
Action for the Day: Today, I’ll list my five favorite excuses. I’ll think of the last time I used each of these. What was I trying to avoid.
From: Bluidkiti's Alcohol and Drug Addictions Recovery Help/Support Forums Daily Recovery Readings - http://www.bluidkiti.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=2
Psychic Change
After they have succumbed to the desire again, as so many do, and the phenomenon
of craving develops, they pass through the well-known stages of a spree, emerging remorseful, with a firm resolution not to drink again. This is repeated over and over, and unless this person can experience an entire psychic change there is very little hope of his recovery.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, p. xxix
Thought to Ponder
Pain is the measure of our resistance to change.
AA-related 'Alconym'
P A I D = Pitiful And Incomprehensible Demoralization
Excerpt of The Daily Motivator
Liberated by kindness
Pride, we are told, my children, "goeth before a fall" and oh, the pride was there, and so the fall was not far away. —Wilhelmina Kemp Johnstone
Requesting help. Admitting we are wrong. Owning our mistake in either a big or small matter. Asking for another chance or someone's love. All very difficult to do, and yet necessary if we are to grow. The difficulty is our pride, the big ego. We think, "We need to always be right. If we're wrong, then others may think less of us, look down on us, and question our worth." Perfectionism versus worthlessness.
If we are not perfect (and of course we never are), then we must be worthless. In between these two points on the scale is "being human." Our emotional growth is equal to how readily we accept our humanness, how able we are to be wrong. With humility comes a softness that smoothes our every experience, our every relationship. Pride makes us hard, keeps us hard, keeps others away, and sets us up for the fall.
I will let myself be human today. It will soften my vision of life.
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
To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you’re overdoing it. --Josh Jenkins
To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you’re overdoing it. --Josh Jenkins
It’s okay to make mistakes. But we shouldn’t live a life of excuses. We shouldn’t slide over our mistakes; we should learn from them.
Excuses keep us part from ourselves and others. People don’t trust us if we won’t admit and accept our mistakes. Relying on excuses dooms us to repeat the same mistakes.
In recovery, we admit and accept our behavior. We do this by continuing to take an inventory of our lives. We do this so we can learn from our mistakes. “Owning” our mistakes helps us grow.
Prayer for the Day: Higher Power, help me own my mistakes. Thank-you for Step Ten and the growth it holds for me.
Action for the Day: Today, I’ll list my five favorite excuses. I’ll think of the last time I used each of these. What was I trying to avoid.
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
Psychic Change
After they have succumbed to the desire again, as so many do, and the phenomenon
of craving develops, they pass through the well-known stages of a spree, emerging remorseful, with a firm resolution not to drink again. This is repeated over and over, and unless this person can experience an entire psychic change there is very little hope of his recovery.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, p. xxix
Thought to Ponder
Pain is the measure of our resistance to change.
AA-related 'Alconym'
P A I D = Pitiful And Incomprehensible Demoralization
From: AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net)
Liberated by kindness
by Ralph Marston
Kindness is evidence of great strength. When you are strong enough to respond with kindness, you are strong indeed.
It would be easy to return the insults of others with insults of your own. Kindness, on the other hand, not only shows you are strong, it adds to your strength.
Kindness puts you in control. Kindness raises you above what’s petty and insignificant.
You don’t have to be trapped by resentment, envy or frustration. You can be liberated by kindness.
Let anger end when it reaches you. Enable new kindness to begin with you.
Discover how strong, how effective, how influential you can be. Whatever the situation, choose kindness.
Kindness is evidence of great strength. When you are strong enough to respond with kindness, you are strong indeed.
It would be easy to return the insults of others with insults of your own. Kindness, on the other hand, not only shows you are strong, it adds to your strength.
Kindness puts you in control. Kindness raises you above what’s petty and insignificant.
You don’t have to be trapped by resentment, envy or frustration. You can be liberated by kindness.
Let anger end when it reaches you. Enable new kindness to begin with you.
Discover how strong, how effective, how influential you can be. Whatever the situation, choose kindness.
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