Thursday, December 14, 2017
Today's Gift
No struggle we have is really new. It's another shade of the struggle that plagued us last week or perhaps last year. And we'll stumble again and again until we learn to quit struggling. The trying situations at work, or the personality type that irritates us, will always exist. But when we've come to accept as good and growth-enhancing all situations and all persons, we'll sense the subtle absence of struggle. We'll realize that the person we couldn't tolerate has become a friend. The situation we couldn't handle is resolved, forever.
The lessons we need to learn keep presenting themselves, until we've finished the homework. If we sense a struggle today, we can look at it as an assignment, one that is meant for our growth. We can remember that our struggles represent our opportunities to grow. Fortunately, the program has given us a tutor. We have a willing teacher to help us. We need to move on, to be open to other assignments. No problem will be too much for us to handle.
Poison
If we were to live, we had to be free of anger.
The grouch and the brainstorm were not for us.
They maybe the dubious luxury of normal people,
but for alcoholics and addicts these things are poison.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 66
Thought to Ponder
Anger is the wind that blows out the light of reason.
AA-related 'Alconym'
A N G E R = Any New Grudge Endangers Recovery
What already is
Each day comes bearing its gifts. Untie the ribbons. —Ann Ruth Schabacker
Today will be filled with surprises, big ones and small ones, like the gifts at a birthday party. Maybe we'll see a friend we haven't seen for a while. Or we'll find something we thought was lost. Whatever happens today will be special, and is meant to help us grow in just the right way.
Growing up doesn't always feel easy. We're expected to be more responsible and thoughtful of others. We're expected to be honest about our feelings and needs. If we're angry or scared, we need to tell someone. Sharing our secret about being afraid relieves us of the fear, and we feel lighter, happier, like after opening a special gift.
When I receive today's gifts, will I stop to appreciate them?
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
A theme may seem to have been put aside, but it keeps returning--the same thing modulated, somewhat changed in form. --Muriel Rukeyser
A theme may seem to have been put aside, but it keeps returning--the same thing modulated, somewhat changed in form. --Muriel Rukeyser
No struggle we have is really new. It's another shade of the struggle that plagued us last week or perhaps last year. And we'll stumble again and again until we learn to quit struggling. The trying situations at work, or the personality type that irritates us, will always exist. But when we've come to accept as good and growth-enhancing all situations and all persons, we'll sense the subtle absence of struggle. We'll realize that the person we couldn't tolerate has become a friend. The situation we couldn't handle is resolved, forever.
The lessons we need to learn keep presenting themselves, until we've finished the homework. If we sense a struggle today, we can look at it as an assignment, one that is meant for our growth. We can remember that our struggles represent our opportunities to grow. Fortunately, the program has given us a tutor. We have a willing teacher to help us. We need to move on, to be open to other assignments. No problem will be too much for us to handle.
Action for the Day: I will enjoy my role as student today. I will be grateful for all opportunities to grow. They make possible my very special contribution in this life.
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
Poison
If we were to live, we had to be free of anger.
The grouch and the brainstorm were not for us.
They maybe the dubious luxury of normal people,
but for alcoholics and addicts these things are poison.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 66
Thought to Ponder
Anger is the wind that blows out the light of reason.
AA-related 'Alconym'
A N G E R = Any New Grudge Endangers Recovery
From: AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) http://www.aa-alive.net/index.html
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Daily Motivation
Excerpt of The Daily Motivator
What already is
by Ralph Marston
Desire what already is. Love, be thankful for, enjoy, find fulfillment, meaning, peace and hope in what already is.
Do not cheat yourself out of life by delaying your living of it until some idealized future. Now is when you are, when everything is, when the reality of life is.
Right now you can laugh, cry, learn, work, fall down, get up, and laugh some more. Right now you can bring to life your highest hopes, strongest values, and most treasured dreams.
Yes, by all means imagine where you can go. And extend that imagining all the way to now, when you can actually do something positive about it.
You have arrived. Here is the real world, your real, miraculous life, filled with every possibility.
What already is, is infinite abundance in every direction. Embrace it, benefit from it, do great things with it, now.
Desire what already is. Love, be thankful for, enjoy, find fulfillment, meaning, peace and hope in what already is.
Do not cheat yourself out of life by delaying your living of it until some idealized future. Now is when you are, when everything is, when the reality of life is.
Right now you can laugh, cry, learn, work, fall down, get up, and laugh some more. Right now you can bring to life your highest hopes, strongest values, and most treasured dreams.
Yes, by all means imagine where you can go. And extend that imagining all the way to now, when you can actually do something positive about it.
You have arrived. Here is the real world, your real, miraculous life, filled with every possibility.
What already is, is infinite abundance in every direction. Embrace it, benefit from it, do great things with it, now.
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