Thursday, November 30, 2017
Today's Gift
We are powerless over our addictions, whether liquor, pills, people, food. We are powerless over the outcome of all events involving us. And we are powerless over the lives of our friends and family members. We are not powerless, however, over our own attitudes, our own behavior, our own self-image, our own determination, our own commitment to life and this simple program.
Power aplenty we have, but we must exercise it in order to understand its breadth. We'll find all the day's activities, interactions, plans decidedly more exciting when we exercise control over our responses. We don't have to feel or respond except in the way that pleases us. We have total control and we'll find this realization exhilarating.
Our recovery is strengthened each time we determine the proper behavior, choose an action that feels right, take responsibility where it is clearly ours to take. The benefits will startle us and bring us joy.
Action for the Day: I will take charge of my life today.
One More Attempt
But not so with us in those last days of heavy drinking. The old pleasures were gone.
They were but memories. Never could we recapture the great moments of the past.
There was an insistent yearning to enjoy life as we once did and a heartbreaking
obsession that some new miracle of control would enable us to do it.
There was always one more attempt—and one more failure.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 151
Thought to Ponder
Within our wonderful new world, we have found freedom from our fatal obsession.
AA-related 'Alconym'
H O P E = Hold On, Possibilities Exist
Serendipity
A terrace nine stories high begins with a pile of earth. --Lao-tzu
Imagine yourself with a pile of dirt in front of you and building plans for a one-story structure. It would be easy to think, "Oh, this is impossible - it will never get done."
But the architect hires people to help. A foundation is built, and then the frame. From there, step by step, the rest is filled in. We have all watched a building take shape and become a finished product.
Building plans are like the goals we all have. We want to be a better person or friend, a better artist or athlete. Reaching a goal is like putting up a building. Once we have a goal, we need a strong foundation to support us. All of us need the help of others to reach our goals.
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
Doubt indulged soon becomes doubt realized. --Frances Ridley Havergal
Doubt indulged soon becomes doubt realized. --Frances Ridley Havergal
We are powerless over our addictions, whether liquor, pills, people, food. We are powerless over the outcome of all events involving us. And we are powerless over the lives of our friends and family members. We are not powerless, however, over our own attitudes, our own behavior, our own self-image, our own determination, our own commitment to life and this simple program.
Power aplenty we have, but we must exercise it in order to understand its breadth. We'll find all the day's activities, interactions, plans decidedly more exciting when we exercise control over our responses. We don't have to feel or respond except in the way that pleases us. We have total control and we'll find this realization exhilarating.
Our recovery is strengthened each time we determine the proper behavior, choose an action that feels right, take responsibility where it is clearly ours to take. The benefits will startle us and bring us joy.
Action for the Day: I will take charge of my life 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
One More Attempt
But not so with us in those last days of heavy drinking. The old pleasures were gone.
They were but memories. Never could we recapture the great moments of the past.
There was an insistent yearning to enjoy life as we once did and a heartbreaking
obsession that some new miracle of control would enable us to do it.
There was always one more attempt—and one more failure.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 151
Thought to Ponder
Within our wonderful new world, we have found freedom from our fatal obsession.
AA-related 'Alconym'
H O P E = Hold On, Possibilities Exist
From: AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) http://www.aa-alive.net/index.html
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Daily Motivation
Excerpt of The Daily Motivator
Serendipity
by Ralph Marston
Sometimes the most powerful agenda is not to have an agenda. There’s even a pleasant name for it, serendipity.
Precise planning, specific purpose, clarity of intention will get you far. Yet when you’re always following a strictly prescribed course, there’s something missing.
Allow yourself time to be curious, to not know, to discover. Make some mistakes and false starts, secure and confident enough not to care about them.
Side roads, literal ones and the figurative ones too, inject new energy and freshness into life. Turn onto one of them, then another, roll the windows down, feel life from a new perspective.
It’s great to have a clear plan, yet that plan must originate somewhere. To know what you want to do, you must do what you don’t know.
Now and then, venture away from the structure you’ve built into your life. Make room for some serendipity, and give your spirit a chance to be renewed through discovery and surprise.
Sometimes the most powerful agenda is not to have an agenda. There’s even a pleasant name for it, serendipity.
Precise planning, specific purpose, clarity of intention will get you far. Yet when you’re always following a strictly prescribed course, there’s something missing.
Allow yourself time to be curious, to not know, to discover. Make some mistakes and false starts, secure and confident enough not to care about them.
Side roads, literal ones and the figurative ones too, inject new energy and freshness into life. Turn onto one of them, then another, roll the windows down, feel life from a new perspective.
It’s great to have a clear plan, yet that plan must originate somewhere. To know what you want to do, you must do what you don’t know.
Now and then, venture away from the structure you’ve built into your life. Make room for some serendipity, and give your spirit a chance to be renewed through discovery and surprise.
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