Monday, October 22, 2018
Today's Gift
...You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now. --Joan Baez
How thrilling to contemplate that we can choose every attitude we have and every action we take. We have been gifted with full responsibility for our development. What will we try today? It's our personal choice. How will we decide on a particular issue? Our options are only limited by our vision.
Every situation in life offers us a significant opportunity for making a decision that will, of necessity, influence the remaining situations we encounter. Just as we are interdependent, needing and influencing one another in all instances that bring us together, likewise our decisions are never inviolate. Each is singly important; however, its impact is multiplied by the variety of other decisions triggered.
The choice is ours for livings fully today, for taking advantage of all the opportunities that present themselves. Our personal growths, our emotional and spiritual development, are in our hands. Our Higher Power will provide us with the guidance, and the Universe offers us the tools. The decision to act is ours, alone.
I will exercise my personal power. My choices determine my development.
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
What happened to our years of drinking and using other drugs? They seemed to pass so quickly with so little to show for them. We had plans, but we didn’t get where we wanted to go. There was always “tomorrow.”
What a difference today! Now we work a program that helps us really live each day. We’re not losing time out of our lives anymore. Now every day is full of life: sights, sounds, people, feelings---those things we used to miss out on. We have the help of a Higher Power who makes every day important.
Prayer for the Day: Higher Power, help me do Your will for me today. I place this day in Your care.
Action for the Day: Be on the lookout today for signs of life!
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
The answers will come, if your own house is in order.
But obviously you cannot transmit something you haven’t got.
See to it that your relationship with your Higher Power is right, and
great events will come to pass for you and countless others.
This is the Great Fact for us.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 164
Thought to Ponder
Life didn't end when I got sober -- it started.
AA-related 'Alconym'
F E A R = Few Ever Arrive Rejoicing
From: AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net)
Excerpt of The Daily Motivator
Magnificent existence
by Ralph Marston
Most of this hour’s breaking news will be forgotten by the end of the day. Don’t let yourself get pulled in by all the urgencies that really have no meaning.
Step back, breathe, and remind yourself of who you are. Connect your thoughts and feelings to all you truly love, to those things that actually matter.
There are plenty of people and companies who profit from keeping you distracted. But you don’t have to participate in the bargain.
Turn away from the glittering, meaningless freebies and shallow dramas that eat your time and numb your spirit. Fix your eyes and your awareness on the authentic beauty that is your life.
Focus on the possibilities for creating real richness. Engage yourself in the satisfying challenge of making a meaningful, positive impact.
Honor the magnificent existence in which you are immersed. Live each moment with substance, love, generosity and real meaning.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
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