Friday, December 8, 2017
Today's Gift
Life seems to be a continuous pattern of getting committed to things and having to let go - falling in love and losing the one we love, developing a job skill and having to change careers, caring for our children and letting them go off into the world. This is the rhythm of life, and our spiritual growth teaches us to make peace with it. Participating fully in the rhythm is how we become whole. As addicts and codependents, we used our gambling, overspending, drugs, sex, work, or caretaking of others to avoid the pain of making deeper relationships and to avoid the grief over losing them.
Avoiding commitments and staying uninvolved may keep us safe from risks. They also keep us near our dangerous old patterns. Our program works when we can freely let ourselves go. First, we commit to our recovery program with no reservations. Then, in our increasing sanity we gradually let ourselves go in other attachments. We know we face losses as part of life. We will have the strength to grieve them and move on.
Action for the Day: Today I ask my Higher Power to give me the inner-liberty today to let go of myself and care.
A Design for Living
But I soon found that when all other measures failed, work with another alcoholic
would save the day. Many times I have gone to my old hospital in despair.
On talking to a person there, I would be amazingly lifted up and set on my feet.
It is a design for living that works in rough going.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 15
Thought to Ponder
The Twelve Steps — a manuscript for rational living.
AA-related 'Alconym'
F A I T H = Facing All, Intuitively Trusting Him/Her
Miracles in every moment
by Ralph Marston
There are miracles in every moment if you’ll just take the time to see them. There is value in every circumstance if you’ll simply make the effort to appreciate it.
Even on the most ordinary and tedious days there are magnificent and extraordinary treasures to be lived. They are yours when you open your mind and your heart to the possibilities.
There is no need to long for some distant bright day on which everything will be perfect. For you can make this very day as bright and shining and fulfilling as you choose.
Open your eyes and realize what a miracle it is that you know you are here. Choose in this very moment to make the most of your awesome good fortune.
The wind blows, the sun rises, the snow falls and the ocean relentlessly pounds the shore. Life rolls on with fresh new possibilities at every turn.
There are miracles in every moment. What a privilege and joy it is to be a part of life.
I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring. —Dodie Smith
Repeatedly, today and every day, we will be in new situations, new settings with old friends, and old settings and situations with new friends. Each instance is fresh, unlike all the times before. And inspiration can accompany each moment, if we but recognize how special it is.
"We will not pass this way again," so the song says, which heightens the meaning of each encounter, every experience. Acknowledging that something can be gained each step along the way invites inspiration.
Inspiration moves us to new heights. We will be called to step beyond our present boundaries. Maybe today. Whenever the inspiration catches our attention, we can trust its invitation; we are ready for the challenge it offers. We need not let our narrow, personal expectations of an experience, a new situation perhaps, prevent us from being open to all the dynamic possibilities it offers.
I must be willing to let my whole self be moved, inspired. I must be willing to let each moment I experience be the only moment getting my attention.
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
That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet. --Emily Dickinson
That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet. --Emily Dickinson
Life seems to be a continuous pattern of getting committed to things and having to let go - falling in love and losing the one we love, developing a job skill and having to change careers, caring for our children and letting them go off into the world. This is the rhythm of life, and our spiritual growth teaches us to make peace with it. Participating fully in the rhythm is how we become whole. As addicts and codependents, we used our gambling, overspending, drugs, sex, work, or caretaking of others to avoid the pain of making deeper relationships and to avoid the grief over losing them.
Avoiding commitments and staying uninvolved may keep us safe from risks. They also keep us near our dangerous old patterns. Our program works when we can freely let ourselves go. First, we commit to our recovery program with no reservations. Then, in our increasing sanity we gradually let ourselves go in other attachments. We know we face losses as part of life. We will have the strength to grieve them and move on.
Action for the Day: Today I ask my Higher Power to give me the inner-liberty today to let go of myself and care.
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
A Design for Living
But I soon found that when all other measures failed, work with another alcoholic
would save the day. Many times I have gone to my old hospital in despair.
On talking to a person there, I would be amazingly lifted up and set on my feet.
It is a design for living that works in rough going.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 15
Thought to Ponder
The Twelve Steps — a manuscript for rational living.
AA-related 'Alconym'
F A I T H = Facing All, Intuitively Trusting Him/Her
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
Miracles in every moment
by Ralph Marston
There are miracles in every moment if you’ll just take the time to see them. There is value in every circumstance if you’ll simply make the effort to appreciate it.
Even on the most ordinary and tedious days there are magnificent and extraordinary treasures to be lived. They are yours when you open your mind and your heart to the possibilities.
There is no need to long for some distant bright day on which everything will be perfect. For you can make this very day as bright and shining and fulfilling as you choose.
Open your eyes and realize what a miracle it is that you know you are here. Choose in this very moment to make the most of your awesome good fortune.
The wind blows, the sun rises, the snow falls and the ocean relentlessly pounds the shore. Life rolls on with fresh new possibilities at every turn.
There are miracles in every moment. What a privilege and joy it is to be a part of life.
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