Friday, April 13, 2018
Today's Gift
Gratitude for what is prepares us for the blessings just around the corner. What is so necessary to understand is that our wait for what's around the corner closes our eyes to the joys of the present moment. We have only the 24 hours ahead of us. In fact, all we can be certain of having is the moment we are presently experiencing. And it is a gift to be enjoyed. There is no better gift just right for us than this moment, at this time.
We can, each of us, look back on former days, realizing that we learned too late the value of a friend or an experience. Both are now gone. With practice and a commitment to ourselves, we can learn to reap the benefits of today, hour by hour. When we detach from the present and wait for tomorrow, or next week, or look to next year, we are stunting our spiritual growth. Life can only bless us now, one breath at a time.
Fellowship
There you will find release from care, boredom and worry. Your
imagination will be fired. Life will mean something at last. The
most satisfactory years of your existence lie ahead. Thus we find
the fellowship, and so will you.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 152
Thought to Ponder
Alcoholics Anonymous is the only place in the world where
you can walk into a room full of total strangers and reminisce.
AA-related 'Alconym'
F E L L O W S H I P = Faith, Empathy, Learning, Love, Openness. Wisdom, Self-worth, Hope, Insight, Peace
One little thing
The world is a wheel always turning. Those who are high go down low, and those who've been low go up higher. —Anzia Yezierska
Everything changes. Nothing stays the same. And letting go of the way things are, anticipating instead what they might become, frees us to live each moment more fully.
Time marches on, and our destiny marches with it. There is purpose in how our lives unfold; the ups and downs serve our growth. We must neither resent the doldrums nor savor too long the elation. Giving too much attention to either state interferes with our awareness of the present. And the present has come to teach us.
We must move with time. We must focus our attention on the moment and accept whatever feelings each experience elicits. Emotional maturity is accepting our feelings and letting them go and facing instead the next moment with fresh receptivity. Our lessons are many, and they accompany the lows as well as the highs. We can be grateful for both.
The Universe has taught us freedom from lingering lows. It has given us the tools to move confidently forward, trusting that all is well. Nothing lasts forever, and within each struggle is the opportunity for real growth.
The highs will pass away, just as will the lows. They visit us purposefully. I will give them their freedom and find mine as well.
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
It seems to me that I have always been waiting for something better - sometimes to see the best I had snatched from me. --Dorothy Reed Mendenhall
It seems to me that I have always been waiting for something better - sometimes to see the best I had snatched from me. --Dorothy Reed Mendenhall
Gratitude for what is prepares us for the blessings just around the corner. What is so necessary to understand is that our wait for what's around the corner closes our eyes to the joys of the present moment. We have only the 24 hours ahead of us. In fact, all we can be certain of having is the moment we are presently experiencing. And it is a gift to be enjoyed. There is no better gift just right for us than this moment, at this time.
We can, each of us, look back on former days, realizing that we learned too late the value of a friend or an experience. Both are now gone. With practice and a commitment to ourselves, we can learn to reap the benefits of today, hour by hour. When we detach from the present and wait for tomorrow, or next week, or look to next year, we are stunting our spiritual growth. Life can only bless us now, one breath at a time.
Action for the Day: I can live in the present if I choose to. Gentle reminders are often necessary, however. I will step into my life, today. It can become a habit, one I will never want to break.
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
Fellowship
There you will find release from care, boredom and worry. Your
imagination will be fired. Life will mean something at last. The
most satisfactory years of your existence lie ahead. Thus we find
the fellowship, and so will you.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 152
Thought to Ponder
Alcoholics Anonymous is the only place in the world where
you can walk into a room full of total strangers and reminisce.
AA-related 'Alconym'
F E L L O W S H I P = Faith, Empathy, Learning, Love, Openness. Wisdom, Self-worth, Hope, Insight, Peace
From: AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net)
Excerpt of The Daily Motivator
One little thing
by Ralph Marston
You can’t instantly make everything better. But you can quickly make one thing better, and then perhaps another thing, and another.
You can’t make the whole world perfect. Yet you always can make real, specific, meaningful improvements.
Even one small success is highly empowering. It establishes positive momentum, and gets you moving in a good direction.
Decide to stop feeling frustrated and overwhelmed by the difficulties and the negativity you encounter. Choose to do something about it.
Just a small positive action can dramatically improve your attitude and your outlook. Even better, you can add another positive action, and build on it, and spread your beneficial attitude to others.
Go ahead, get yourself to act, to do one little thing that makes life better. Feel how great it feels, and allow yourself to expand that great feeling as far as you can imagine.
You can’t instantly make everything better. But you can quickly make one thing better, and then perhaps another thing, and another.
You can’t make the whole world perfect. Yet you always can make real, specific, meaningful improvements.
Even one small success is highly empowering. It establishes positive momentum, and gets you moving in a good direction.
Decide to stop feeling frustrated and overwhelmed by the difficulties and the negativity you encounter. Choose to do something about it.
Just a small positive action can dramatically improve your attitude and your outlook. Even better, you can add another positive action, and build on it, and spread your beneficial attitude to others.
Go ahead, get yourself to act, to do one little thing that makes life better. Feel how great it feels, and allow yourself to expand that great feeling as far as you can imagine.
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