Monday, May 21, 2018
Today's Gift
The struggles of life teach us a lot. They challenge our beliefs. As we struggle, we come to believe that our friends, family, and Higher Power will be there for us in hard times. But we must do our part. We need to call and honestly let people know how we are doing. We need to pray and ask our Higher Power for help. If we do these things, we'll come to respect and learn from hard times.
Prayer for the Day: I pray for the wisdom to see that struggles are part of live. Higher Power, I pray for Your help in not taking struggles too personally.
Action for the Day: I'll list four times I've struggled and what I learned from each stuggle. I'll share this with someone.
Step Five
This is perhaps difficult—especially discussing our defects with another person.
We think we have done well enough in admitting these things to ourselves.
There is doubt about that. In actual practice, we usually find a solitary
self-appraisal insufficient. Many of us thought it necessary to go much further.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 72
Thought to Ponder
We need to share our problems to find our solutions.
AA-related 'Alconym'
A A = Accountable Actions
This day to live
It only takes one person to change your life--you. --Ruth Casey
Change is not easy, but it's absolutely unavoidable. Doors will close. Barriers will surface. Frustrations will mount. Nothing stays the same forever, and it's such folly to wish otherwise. Growth accompanies positive change; determining to risk the outcome resulting from a changed behavior or attitude will enhance our self-perceptions. We will have moved forward; in every instance our lives will be influenced by making a change that only each of us can make.
We have all dreaded the changes we knew we had to make. Perhaps even now we fear some impending changes. Where might they take us? It's difficult accepting that the outcome is not ours to control. Only the effort is ours. The solace is that positive changes, which we know are right for us and other people in our lives, are never going to take us astray. In fact, they are necessary for the smooth path just beyond this stumbling block.
When we are troubled by circumstances in our lives, a change is called for, a change that we must initiate. When we reflect on our recent as well as distant past, we will remember that the changes we most dreaded again and again have positively influenced our lives in untold ways.
Change ushers in glad, not bad, tidings.
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
********************************
Twenty-Four Hours a Day
Keep It Simple
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.---Marcus Aurelius
The struggles of life teach us a lot. They challenge our beliefs. As we struggle, we come to believe that our friends, family, and Higher Power will be there for us in hard times. But we must do our part. We need to call and honestly let people know how we are doing. We need to pray and ask our Higher Power for help. If we do these things, we'll come to respect and learn from hard times.
Prayer for the Day: I pray for the wisdom to see that struggles are part of live. Higher Power, I pray for Your help in not taking struggles too personally.
Action for the Day: I'll list four times I've struggled and what I learned from each stuggle. I'll share this with someone.
From: Bluidkiti's Alcohol and Drug Addictions Recovery Help/Support Forums Daily Recovery Readings - http://www.bluidkiti.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=2
****************************
One Day At A Time
This is perhaps difficult—especially discussing our defects with another person.
We think we have done well enough in admitting these things to ourselves.
There is doubt about that. In actual practice, we usually find a solitary
self-appraisal insufficient. Many of us thought it necessary to go much further.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 72
Thought to Ponder
We need to share our problems to find our solutions.
AA-related 'Alconym'
A A = Accountable Actions
From: AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net)
Excerpt of The Daily Motivator
by Ralph Marston
This day will change you, and you will change this day. Today can improve you, and you can improve today.
Progress is not ever inevitable, yet always possible, within reach. Today offers you the chance to make it happen.
Don’t curse those things that hinder you. Learn from them, understand, create a way around them, devise new ways to make your progress anyway.
Don’t take for granted the factors that assist you. Nurture, support, appreciate, encourage, and make good use of them while you can.
People, circumstances, and random events will do what they will. Step forward with confidence, knowing you can take it all in stride, adding value to each moment along the way.
You have every reason to be positive because you have this day to live. Start right now, giving new joy, meaning, and fulfillment to all of life.
This day will change you, and you will change this day. Today can improve you, and you can improve today.
Progress is not ever inevitable, yet always possible, within reach. Today offers you the chance to make it happen.
Don’t curse those things that hinder you. Learn from them, understand, create a way around them, devise new ways to make your progress anyway.
Don’t take for granted the factors that assist you. Nurture, support, appreciate, encourage, and make good use of them while you can.
People, circumstances, and random events will do what they will. Step forward with confidence, knowing you can take it all in stride, adding value to each moment along the way.
You have every reason to be positive because you have this day to live. Start right now, giving new joy, meaning, and fulfillment to all of life.
No comments:
Post a Comment