Tuesday, August 29, 2017
Today's Gift
Today, let’s be gentle and kind. Lets talk to ourselves with love and respect. Let’s be gentle with others too.
Today, let’s be clear in how we think, speak, and act. And if we start to get mixed up, let’s stop thinking and listen for our Higher Power’s voice.
Today, we know that we have just a small job to do. It is to live today with love in our heart. We can’t take care of every problem in the world. But we make our actions today part of the answer instead of the part of the problem. Let's Keep It Simple.
Prayer for the Day: Higher Power, help me find Your calmness and peace in my heart today.
Action for the Day: Do I believe that peace starts with me? Today, I’ll listen to the simple voice of peace inside of me. And I’ll Keep It Simple.
Self-Reliance
We could actually have earnest religious beliefs which remained barren because we were
still trying to play God ourselves. As long as we placed self-reliance first,
a genuine reliance upon a Higher Power was out of the question.
That basic ingredient of all humility, a desire to seek and do our Higher Power's will, was missing.
- - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 72
Thought to Ponder
Humility is not thinking less of myself, but thinking of myself less.
AA-related 'Alconym'
B A T H = Behavior, Attitude, Thinking, Habits
From: AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net)
Excerpt of The Daily Motivator
What you give out
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. —Helen Keller
The next 24 hours are guaranteed to excite us, to lift us to new levels of understanding, to move us into situations with others where we can offer our unique contributions. All that is asked of us is a willingness to trust that we will be given just what we need at each moment.
We can dare to live, fully, just for today. We can appreciate the extraordinariness of every breath we take, every challenge we encounter. Within each experience is the invitation for us to grow, to reach out to others in caring ways, to discover more fully the person we are capable of being. We must not let a single moment go by unnoticed.
When we withdraw from life, we stunt our growth. We need involvement with others, involvement that perturbs us, humors us, and even stresses us. We tap our internal resources only when we have been pushed to our limits, and our participation in life gifts us, daily, with that push. How necessary the push!
None of us will pass this way again. What we see and feel and say today are gone forever. We have so much to regret when we let things slip away, unnoticed or unappreciated.
A special series of events has been planned for me today. I shall not miss it.
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
This day I choose to spend in perfect peace. --- A Course in Miracles
This day I choose to spend in perfect peace. --- A Course in Miracles
Today, let’s be gentle and kind. Lets talk to ourselves with love and respect. Let’s be gentle with others too.
Today, let’s be clear in how we think, speak, and act. And if we start to get mixed up, let’s stop thinking and listen for our Higher Power’s voice.
Today, we know that we have just a small job to do. It is to live today with love in our heart. We can’t take care of every problem in the world. But we make our actions today part of the answer instead of the part of the problem. Let's Keep It Simple.
Prayer for the Day: Higher Power, help me find Your calmness and peace in my heart today.
Action for the Day: Do I believe that peace starts with me? Today, I’ll listen to the simple voice of peace inside of me. And I’ll Keep It Simple.
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
Self-Reliance
We could actually have earnest religious beliefs which remained barren because we were
still trying to play God ourselves. As long as we placed self-reliance first,
a genuine reliance upon a Higher Power was out of the question.
That basic ingredient of all humility, a desire to seek and do our Higher Power's will, was missing.
- - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 72
Thought to Ponder
Humility is not thinking less of myself, but thinking of myself less.
AA-related 'Alconym'
B A T H = Behavior, Attitude, Thinking, Habits
From: AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net)
Excerpt of The Daily Motivator
What you give out
by Ralph Marston
What you give out, you get back. To get back good stuff, genuine love, respect, consideration, give those things out.
That’s simple and easy to remember as a concept. Yet it only works for you when you work to put it into practice.
Before you speak, plan, or act, ask yourself. How will it affect the people around you?
That doesn’t mean you must live in fear of what other people will think or say about you. It does mean you can always improve on the amount and quality of consideration you show toward others.
When you’ve consistently done well in life, it’s because you’ve consistently remembered to be considerate. When you’ve strayed away from respect and consideration toward others, you’ve likely brought more struggle into your life.
People, organizations, communities, cultures that have respect and consideration embedded throughout them, thrive and prosper. It’s always a good thing to remember, always a good way to live.
What you give out, you get back. To get back good stuff, genuine love, respect, consideration, give those things out.
That’s simple and easy to remember as a concept. Yet it only works for you when you work to put it into practice.
Before you speak, plan, or act, ask yourself. How will it affect the people around you?
That doesn’t mean you must live in fear of what other people will think or say about you. It does mean you can always improve on the amount and quality of consideration you show toward others.
When you’ve consistently done well in life, it’s because you’ve consistently remembered to be considerate. When you’ve strayed away from respect and consideration toward others, you’ve likely brought more struggle into your life.
People, organizations, communities, cultures that have respect and consideration embedded throughout them, thrive and prosper. It’s always a good thing to remember, always a good way to live.
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