Tuesday, July 17, 2018
Today's Gift
Keep It Simple
I loaf and invite my soul, I lean and loaf at my ease observing a spear of summer grass. --Walt Whitman
How foreign the thought is to many men that we might make progress by loafing. Yet we probably have experienced it. We have felt more in tune with ourselves after taking a break. After an especially relaxing weekend we feel more alive or clearer about ourselves. At those times we have invited our soul and have been rejuvenated.
Centuries of spiritual practice from different ideologies have taught the need for quiet relaxation in some form to invite the soul. Some have practiced a Sabbath day each week, others a time of prayer every day - even several times a day - others have practiced a daily period of deep meditation. Simply a period of loafing, with no particular goal in mind, may invite conscious contact with our Higher Power.
Today's Action: I pray for the ability to set aside my busy pace of life, my worrying and fretting, my "take charge" attitude for a period of time today.
Continuous Action
More sobriety brought about by the admission of alcoholism and by
attendance at a few meetings is very good indeed, but it is bound
to be a far cry from permanent sobriety and a contented, useful life.
That is just where the remaining Steps of the A.A. program come in.
Nothing short of continuous action upon these as a way of life
can bring the much-desired result.
- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, pp. 39 - 40
Thought to Ponder
Sobriety without action is fantasy.
AA-related 'Alconym'
A B C = Accept, Begin, Continue
Grandest of opportunities
Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind. --Alice Meyvell
It's thought that Abe Lincoln once said, "We're as happy as we make up our minds to be." In other words, we decide to be happy. Bad weather, lost toys, broken plans, even angry friends don't have to ruin our own happiness unless we let them. We're always in control of our own thoughts and feelings, and happiness is a feeling we can choose even when others around us have chosen to be angry or sad. Even when the day is gloomy and none of our plans are working out, we can still be cheerful if we decide to be. How lucky we are that someone else can't decide for us how to feel. We'd be nothing more than robots if that were true.
Am I ready to make this day a happy one?
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
I loaf and invite my soul, I lean and loaf at my ease observing a spear of summer grass. --Walt Whitman
How foreign the thought is to many men that we might make progress by loafing. Yet we probably have experienced it. We have felt more in tune with ourselves after taking a break. After an especially relaxing weekend we feel more alive or clearer about ourselves. At those times we have invited our soul and have been rejuvenated.
Centuries of spiritual practice from different ideologies have taught the need for quiet relaxation in some form to invite the soul. Some have practiced a Sabbath day each week, others a time of prayer every day - even several times a day - others have practiced a daily period of deep meditation. Simply a period of loafing, with no particular goal in mind, may invite conscious contact with our Higher Power.
Today's Action: I pray for the ability to set aside my busy pace of life, my worrying and fretting, my "take charge" attitude for a period of time today.
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
More sobriety brought about by the admission of alcoholism and by
attendance at a few meetings is very good indeed, but it is bound
to be a far cry from permanent sobriety and a contented, useful life.
That is just where the remaining Steps of the A.A. program come in.
Nothing short of continuous action upon these as a way of life
can bring the much-desired result.
- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, pp. 39 - 40
Thought to Ponder
Sobriety without action is fantasy.
AA-related 'Alconym'
A B C = Accept, Begin, Continue
From: AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net)
Excerpt of The Daily Motivator
Grandest of opportunities
by Ralph Marston
Live for the sake of living. Enjoy the day, not to advance some contrived agenda, but just because you can.
Smile for absolutely no reason. Realize how good it feels, and suddenly you have your reason.
Direct your energy and awareness away from all the stuff the world says you should crave. Free yourself to give to life whatever resonates with true value deep within.
Breathe freely, calmly with no tension, no restriction. Sense the power of life as it flows throughout you.
Undertake every task with gratitude for the opportunity to be of service to life. Be humbled and energized by the realization that you are an essential part of this unique moment.
Life is yours to live, to feel, to love, to give, to enjoy. You hold the grandest of opportunities, and it is now.
Live for the sake of living. Enjoy the day, not to advance some contrived agenda, but just because you can.
Smile for absolutely no reason. Realize how good it feels, and suddenly you have your reason.
Direct your energy and awareness away from all the stuff the world says you should crave. Free yourself to give to life whatever resonates with true value deep within.
Breathe freely, calmly with no tension, no restriction. Sense the power of life as it flows throughout you.
Undertake every task with gratitude for the opportunity to be of service to life. Be humbled and energized by the realization that you are an essential part of this unique moment.
Life is yours to live, to feel, to love, to give, to enjoy. You hold the grandest of opportunities, and it is now.
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