Wednesday, October 4, 2017
Today's Gift
Excerpt of The Daily Motivator
The reason why birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings. —James M. Barrie
As children, we are taught to act and think with confidence. If we have faith that something wonderful can happen, it will bring us joy. Confidence gives us the will to succeed. Without faith, we invite despair. Faith lets us win by teaming us with love and hope. When things are going well, faith encourages growth. During hard times, faith falls upon trust for added strength and inspiration. It takes such a small amount of material things to have faith. Once, a four-year-old girl found a penny and showed it proudly to a stranger. The man scoffed, "What do you expect to buy with a penny?" The child with faith replied, "I can buy a wonderful wish at a wishing well with it."
What can I have faith in today?
From Today's Gift: Daily Meditations for Families ©
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
Anxiety is that range of distress, which attends willing what cannot be willed. —Leslie H. Farber
There are hundreds of ways in which we try to will things that cannot be willed. We will to sleep; we will to have others like us; we will to have sexual virility. In all these things, the force of our will does not work because what we want is not controllable. They come to us as an outcome of many factors - when the situation is right - when we have become ready for them.
When we could not let go, when we did not know how to turn our life and our will over to the care of our Higher Power, we became more and more anxious. Then we turned to our addictive or codependent escapes from anxiety and willfulness. It is the folly of our age to try to take charge of everything. We are following a more peaceful and more successful way. We are doing our part and receiving the benefits that come to us.
Action for the Day: The will of my Higher Power has a loving purpose and is far wiser than I. I will my will over to the care of my Higher Power.
Daily Recovery Readings - http://www.bluidkiti.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=2
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One Day At A Time
Higher Power
When we look back, we realize that the things which came to us when we put ourselves in our Higher Power’s hands were better than anything we could have planned. Follow the dictates of a Higher Power and you will presently live in a new and wonderful world, no matter what your present circumstances!
- Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 100
Thought to Ponder
The Twelve Steps — a manuscript for rational living.
AA-related 'Alconym'
G R O W T H = God Reveals Other Ways To Heal
From: AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) http://www.aa-alive.net/index.html
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Daily Motivation
Thoughts that serve you
by Ralph Marston
Your thoughts are yours to choose. Choose the thoughts that serve you best.
Think of all you have to be thankful for. Think of the new possibilities being born in every moment.
Think of how great it feels to make a difference, to achieve, to get good stuff done. Think of what you can do, right now, of how you can take action to start moving in a positive direction.
Think of all you love about life. Think of how you can transform the energy of that love into actions to benefit what you care most about.
Think of the strength, the skills, the wisdom you’ve gained from all you’ve been through. Think of the good things you can now do with all that value.
Think the best thoughts, let those thoughts energize and empower you. Then feel the joy and great sense of fulfillment as you put those thoughts into action.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
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