Monday, September 7, 2015
Today's Gift
Remember your good memories, but live for today and keep the memories behind you. —Jodi K. Elliott
The stuff of our memories comprises who we have become. Each recollection is akin to an ingredient in a simmering pot of stew. The full flavor of our lives is enhanced by each additional experience, whether it is painful or joyful.
Our experiences have a way of dovetailing, of grouping themselves, perhaps even tailoring themselves, to provide us the best advantage. So human is our tendency to linger in thought on past times that we fail to take advantage, to be fully present in the moment, which is assuredly making a necessary contribution to the total panorama of our lives.
Who are we to judge the value of any single experience? It's how all experiences have mingled, that we must trust. We can be certain in retrospect, that those situations that created the most inner turmoil also offered us the most as growing, developing women.
The experiences offered today, in the 24 hours ahead, are significant because they are unique. I will cherish them for the addition they are making to my total person.
From Each Day a New Beginning: Daily Meditations for Women by Karen Casey ©
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Twenty-Four Hours a Day
In our spiritual growth, one of our movements is from passive to active, from helpless to responsive. For example, we are passive if we don't take responsibility for our bodies and don't care for our wellness and conditioning. Do we passively leave our health in the doctor's hands?
Do we take responsibility for our relationships? Are we active in nurturing them? We could add our own interests and positive energy to enrich them.
Our Higher Power speaks to us in a quiet, subtle voice, which can easily be ignored until we learn to listen. It takes courage to listen to this inner voice. When we listen, we develop a relationship that is a strong force moving us into recovery. We are still powerless over many things, but we can make active choices in how we will grow and how we will respond.
Action for the Day: I will be guided in my choices by my inner voice.
Infallible Heartbeat
We need each other's experience, strength, and hope, regardless of age or length of sobriety.
The saving grace of our Higher Power doesn't come like a bolt out of the blue.
It comes through, in, and from other suffering, as well as rescued, souls like you and me.
I am happy to be part of a living and growing fellowship with an infallible heartbeat.
Divine power is the pulse of Life, and it doesn't change, no matter how errant and foolish we mortals be.
- Came To Believe . . ., p. 94
Thought to Ponder . . .
The stillness of our Higher Power speaks louder than a choir of voices.
AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
H E A R T = Healing, Enjoying, And Recovering Together.
Seeing life in a new light
Your perspective is valuable. Changing it can be even more so.
Looking at the world from where you are, you see many useful things. Looking at it from somewhere else, you can see many more.
Habits, assumptions, and expectations support you and can serve you well. Sometimes, though, they can hide your best possibilities from you.
Every so often, choose to get away from the comfortable and expected. Give yourself a better idea of how life can be when it is not what you think it is.
Step away from what you always do and discover some things you never knew. Decide to take a different path, and even to venture down some of its side roads.
Give yourself the experience of seeing life in a new light. And you will illuminate a whole new set of great ideas.
— Ralph Marston
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One Day At A Time
We need each other's experience, strength, and hope, regardless of age or length of sobriety.
The saving grace of our Higher Power doesn't come like a bolt out of the blue.
It comes through, in, and from other suffering, as well as rescued, souls like you and me.
I am happy to be part of a living and growing fellowship with an infallible heartbeat.
Divine power is the pulse of Life, and it doesn't change, no matter how errant and foolish we mortals be.
- Came To Believe . . ., p. 94
Thought to Ponder . . .
The stillness of our Higher Power speaks louder than a choir of voices.
AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
H E A R T = Healing, Enjoying, And Recovering Together.
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Daily Motivation
Your perspective is valuable. Changing it can be even more so.
Looking at the world from where you are, you see many useful things. Looking at it from somewhere else, you can see many more.
Habits, assumptions, and expectations support you and can serve you well. Sometimes, though, they can hide your best possibilities from you.
Every so often, choose to get away from the comfortable and expected. Give yourself a better idea of how life can be when it is not what you think it is.
Step away from what you always do and discover some things you never knew. Decide to take a different path, and even to venture down some of its side roads.
Give yourself the experience of seeing life in a new light. And you will illuminate a whole new set of great ideas.
— Ralph Marston
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