Monday, December 4, 2017
Today's Gift
"How much do we need to let go of?" a friend asked one day.
"I'm not certain," I replied, "but maybe everything."
Letting go is a spiritual, emotional, mental, and physical process, a sometimes mysterious metaphysical process of releasing to our Higher Power and the Universe that which we are clinging to so tightly.
We let go of our grasp on people, outcomes, ideas, feelings, wants, needs, desires - everything. We let go of trying to control our progress in recovery. Yes, it's important to acknowledge and accept what we want and what we want to happen. But it's equally important to follow through by letting go.
Letting go is the action part of faith. It is a behavior that gives our Higher Power and the Universe permission to send us what we're meant to have.
Letting go means we acknowledge that hanging on so tightly isn't helping to solve the problem, change the person, or get the outcome we desire. It isn't helping us. In fact, we learn that hanging on often blocks us from getting what we want and need.
Who are we to say that things aren't happening exactly as they need to happen?
There is magic in letting go. Sometimes we get what we want soon after we let go.
Letting go creates the optimum environment for the best possible outcomes and solutions.
From: Bluidkiti's Alcohol and Drug Addictions Recovery Help/Support Forums Daily Recovery Readings - http://www.bluidkiti.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=2
Faith
Actually we were fooling ourselves, for deep down in every person is the fundamental idea of a Higher Power. It may be obscured by calamity, by pomp,
by worship of other things, but in some form or other it is there.
For faith in a Power greater than ourselves, and miraculous demonstrations
of that power in human lives, are facts as old as life itself.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 55
Thought to Ponder
Faith is like a muscle, the more we use it, the more it grows.
AA-related 'Alconym'
F A I T H = For All I Trust Him/Her
Let go
They were the first . . . self-created people in the history of the world. And their manners were their own business. And so were their politics. And so, but ten times so, were their souls. —Archibald MacLeish
There once was a child named Yemaya. Even before she could walk or talk, her mother introduced her to the trees. Yemaya touched them and they accepted her. They told her she was wonderful and she knew it was true.
As she grew up, Yemaya occasionally met people who said unkind things to her. When this happened, she went back to her trees, who continued to tell her she was just fine. She couldn't understand what was wrong with those who were mean to her. Whenever they appeared and insisted on being mean, she pretended what they said was an arrow that sailed right by as she stepped out of the way.
We can do the same. What others say or think is part of them and their lives, not ours. When we are wise enough to let go of things that don't belong to us, we will find our own treasures.
What can I step out of the way of 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
Letting Go
Letting Go
"How much do we need to let go of?" a friend asked one day.
"I'm not certain," I replied, "but maybe everything."
Letting go is a spiritual, emotional, mental, and physical process, a sometimes mysterious metaphysical process of releasing to our Higher Power and the Universe that which we are clinging to so tightly.
We let go of our grasp on people, outcomes, ideas, feelings, wants, needs, desires - everything. We let go of trying to control our progress in recovery. Yes, it's important to acknowledge and accept what we want and what we want to happen. But it's equally important to follow through by letting go.
Letting go is the action part of faith. It is a behavior that gives our Higher Power and the Universe permission to send us what we're meant to have.
Letting go means we acknowledge that hanging on so tightly isn't helping to solve the problem, change the person, or get the outcome we desire. It isn't helping us. In fact, we learn that hanging on often blocks us from getting what we want and need.
Who are we to say that things aren't happening exactly as they need to happen?
There is magic in letting go. Sometimes we get what we want soon after we let go.
Sometimes it takes longer. Sometimes the specific outcome we desire doesn't happen. Something better does.
Letting go sets us free and connects us to our Source.
Letting go creates the optimum environment for the best possible outcomes and solutions.
Action for the Day: Today, I will relax. I will let go of that which is upsetting me the most. I will trust that by letting go, I have started the wheels in motion for things to work out in the best possible way.
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
Faith
Actually we were fooling ourselves, for deep down in every person is the fundamental idea of a Higher Power. It may be obscured by calamity, by pomp,
by worship of other things, but in some form or other it is there.
For faith in a Power greater than ourselves, and miraculous demonstrations
of that power in human lives, are facts as old as life itself.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 55
Thought to Ponder
Faith is like a muscle, the more we use it, the more it grows.
AA-related 'Alconym'
F A I T H = For All I Trust Him/Her
From: AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net)
Excerpt of The Daily Motivator
Let go
by Ralph Marston
Let go of that nagging feeling that something could go wrong. For whatever may happen, you can always choose a way to move forward.
Let go of your resentment and anger over things that are beyond your control. Do the very best with where you are, with what you have, and that will be more than enough.
Let go of the pain you carry from things that happened long ago. Allow yourself to experience the glorious freedom of forgiveness.
Let go of the needs that you don’t really need, that keep your life so anxious and complicated. Find real fulfillment not in getting, but in being.
Let go of the regrets, the disappointments and distress. Choose to follow the very best of the possibilities that beckon you forward.
Let go of all the excuses you have for not living fully. Give beauty and meaning to the life and the world that you’re in right now.
Let go of that nagging feeling that something could go wrong. For whatever may happen, you can always choose a way to move forward.
Let go of your resentment and anger over things that are beyond your control. Do the very best with where you are, with what you have, and that will be more than enough.
Let go of the pain you carry from things that happened long ago. Allow yourself to experience the glorious freedom of forgiveness.
Let go of the needs that you don’t really need, that keep your life so anxious and complicated. Find real fulfillment not in getting, but in being.
Let go of the regrets, the disappointments and distress. Choose to follow the very best of the possibilities that beckon you forward.
Let go of all the excuses you have for not living fully. Give beauty and meaning to the life and the world that you’re in right now.
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