Friday, September 8, 2017
Today's Gift
We are often so busy trying to control the outcome of the happenings in our daily lives, so intent on projecting our tomorrows that we let life slip by. Life is today. This is all we have for sure--the moments in our lives we cannot hold. Sometimes it feels as if those moments are beyond time and place, gifts from the Universe to receive and give up at the same time. Like a dragonfly that lights on our hand and will either be crushed or will fly away if we try to close our fingers over it.
Life is a series of things to let go of--our friends and loved ones, our children as they grow, our dreams, or our youth. Only we ourselves, our inner selves, are a constant to be found and learned about every day, in the present moment.
Action for the Day: I will do my best to enjoy each moment of today.
From: Bluidkiti's Alcohol and Drug Addictions Recovery Help/Support Forums Daily Recovery Readings - http://www.bluidkiti.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=2
Self-Deceived
We had not even prayed rightly. We had always said,
“Grant me my wishes” instead of “Thy will be done.” The
love of a Higher Power and people we understood not at all. Therefore
we remained self-deceived, and so incapable of receiving
enough grace to restore us to sanity.
- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 32
Thought to Ponder . . .
Prayer asks the question. Meditation listens for the answer.
AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
FAITH = Finding Answers In The Heart
Excerpt of The Daily Motivator
Space for enjoyment
It's astonishing in this world how things don't turn out at all the way you expect them to! —Agatha Christie
Probably every day of our lives, a plan goes awry. Often we have counted heavily on a particular outcome. We generally assume we have all things under control and know exactly what's best for us, and everyone else as well. But such is not the case. There is a bigger picture than the one we see. The outcome of that picture is out of our hands.
Our vision is limited, and again divinely so. However, we are able to see all that we need to see, today. And more important, if we can trust our inner guidance regarding the events of today, we'll begin to see how each day fills in a shade more of the bigger picture of our lives. In retrospect we can see how all events have contributed, in important ways, to the person we are becoming. Where today's events are leading we can't know, for certain, but we can trust the divine plan.
I will anticipate with faith what lies ahead today. All experiences carry me forward to fulfill my goal in life. I will be alert for the nudge.
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
One must lose one's life in order to find it. --Anne Morrow Lindbergh
One must lose one's life in order to find it. --Anne Morrow Lindbergh
We are often so busy trying to control the outcome of the happenings in our daily lives, so intent on projecting our tomorrows that we let life slip by. Life is today. This is all we have for sure--the moments in our lives we cannot hold. Sometimes it feels as if those moments are beyond time and place, gifts from the Universe to receive and give up at the same time. Like a dragonfly that lights on our hand and will either be crushed or will fly away if we try to close our fingers over it.
Life is a series of things to let go of--our friends and loved ones, our children as they grow, our dreams, or our youth. Only we ourselves, our inner selves, are a constant to be found and learned about every day, in the present moment.
Action for the Day: I will do my best to enjoy each moment of 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
Self-Deceived
We had not even prayed rightly. We had always said,
“Grant me my wishes” instead of “Thy will be done.” The
love of a Higher Power and people we understood not at all. Therefore
we remained self-deceived, and so incapable of receiving
enough grace to restore us to sanity.
- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 32
Thought to Ponder . . .
Prayer asks the question. Meditation listens for the answer.
AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
FAITH = Finding Answers In The Heart
From: AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net)
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Daily Motivation
Excerpt of The Daily Motivator
Space for enjoyment
by Ralph Marston
Make a generous amount of space in your life for enjoyment of your life. The more you enjoy life, the more you have to give to it.
Fulfill your responsibilities, honor your obligations to others. And make sure to also give plenty of good enjoyable living to yourself.
When you enjoy the world, you become highly effective at making good things happen. That’s a whole lot better than being tense, frustrated, worried or angry.
Enjoy the moment, the situation, the work, the play. Sincerely enjoy, and freely spread that joy to all those around you.
You owe it to yourself to experience enjoyment. You owe it to all those with whom you come in contact.
Open yourself, allow yourself to enjoy. With a perspective regularly refreshed by enjoyment, there is much good you can do.
Make a generous amount of space in your life for enjoyment of your life. The more you enjoy life, the more you have to give to it.
Fulfill your responsibilities, honor your obligations to others. And make sure to also give plenty of good enjoyable living to yourself.
When you enjoy the world, you become highly effective at making good things happen. That’s a whole lot better than being tense, frustrated, worried or angry.
Enjoy the moment, the situation, the work, the play. Sincerely enjoy, and freely spread that joy to all those around you.
You owe it to yourself to experience enjoyment. You owe it to all those with whom you come in contact.
Open yourself, allow yourself to enjoy. With a perspective regularly refreshed by enjoyment, there is much good you can do.
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