Wednesday, September 16, 2015
Today's Gift
The sign must come like dawn. You cannot see its arrival, but know when it is there. –Diane Wakoski
Let us take a break, sit by the river, and watch the current quietly flow. Let's just think, for a moment, about where the current is going, the shores it will brush on its way, the clouds reflected on its surface, the animals that come to drink from it, the bobbers it gently nudges downstream.
Our lives sometimes seem like the river, wandering to the west, the south, back toward the east, seemingly without direction at all. Yet we can take comfort in this thought for, like the river, we are always headed in the direction we are meant to go. Without trying, without knowing, we are part of the larger pattern of things, and we nourish many others just by passing through their lives.
What shores will my life touch today?
From Today's Gift: Daily Meditations for Families ©
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Twenty-Four Hours a Day
until they’re fair with you. ---Alan Alda
Often in our illness we were ashamed, so we let people take advantage
of us. We acted as if we had no rights. In recovery, we work hard to be
fair with others. And we deserve to be treated with fairness too. If
people are mean to us, we talk with them about it. If people cheat us,
we ask them to set it right. In recovery, we live by our human rights.
Prayer for the Day: Higher Power, help me to stand for fairness.
Help me respect myself and others.
Action for the Day: Today, I’ll list people who have wronged me.
I will make plans to talk to those with whom I feel will listen.
I will let love, not shame or fear, control my actions.
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One Day At A Time
Maybe I can postpone dealing with some of my problems indefinitely. Of course, this will not do.
Such a bluffing of oneself will have to go the way of many another pleasant rationalization.
At the very least, we shall have to come to grips with some of our worst character defects
and take action toward their removal as quickly as we can.
- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 69
Thought to Ponder . . .
Procrastination is really sloth in five syllables.
AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
A B C = Action, Belief, Continue.
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Daily Motivation
Passion and energy
If you want more passion and energy in your life, act like it. Instead of depending on passion to push you into action, take action, and that action will create passion.
Passion doesn’t just come out of nowhere. It comes from being involved and invested in life.
If you’re not passionate about doing something, that’s completely normal and understandable. Get yourself involved in doing it anyway, and suddenly the passion is there.
If you’ve been searching endlessly for things you can be passionate about, search no more. Simply do something useful, then do another thing useful, and soon you’ll feel that passion you seek.
When you can’t think of a good reason to take action, here’s a great reason. Once you begin to act, plenty of reasons, along with passion and energy, will appear.
Put effort into what you care about, even if you only care a little. Your effort will bring your caring and your passion to a whole new level.
— Ralph Marston
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