Tuesday, December 19, 2017
Today's Gift
When we were drinking and drugging, we didn't have to deal much with feelings. We turned them off. Then, when we let go of the alcohol and other drugs, we started to come back to life. Now--we have feelings again! But, even now, in recovery, we're scared of too much happiness. It's true--we don't want sadness and pain at all. Yet, feelings--the good and the bad--keep on coming.
And we have to handle them. We are learning to handle our feelings. We're getting strong enough to deal with them. With the help of our friends in the program, and our Higher Power, we're ready for life.
Prayer for the Day: Higher Power, I want to be fully alive, but I'm a little scared. Help me know what to do with my feelings today.
Action for the Day: Today, I'll be open to feelings. I'll enjoy my good feelings and share them. I'll ask for help with hard feelings by praying, and by calling my sponsor.
From: Bluidkiti's Alcohol and Drug Addictions Recovery Help/Support Forums Daily Recovery Readings - http://www.bluidkiti.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=2
Our Will
We could wish to be moral, we could wish to be philosophically comforted,
in fact, we could will these things with all our might, but the needed
power wasn’t there. Our human resources, as marshalled by the will,
were not sufficient; they failed utterly.
Lack of power, that was our dilemma.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 45
Thought to Ponder
Take a walk with your Higher Power. They will meet you at the Steps.
AA-related 'Alconym'
W O W = Willingness Over Willpower
Excerpt of The Daily Motivator
Stop and start
Open your mind and your heart to be still. —Shawn Phillips
In this time of constant national and international conflict and mistrust it is easy to despair. At times we may even feel hopeless as we hear about wars and weapons. But there is hope! Change can grow from within each of us.
The world is like a tree - if the tree is diseased and the leaves brown and brittle; the gardener does not treat the branches, but tends to the roots. Our world is made up of nations, in which there are states containing communities of neighborhoods where individual people live. We are the roots of our world tree. As attitudes change; as we accept and love ourselves honestly and learn, in turn, to accept and love others regardless of our differences, slowly, the branches that extend from us and cover the world will grow strong. The peace we can make within ourselves can be reflected everywhere.
Will I find the peace within myself 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
The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together. --Saadi
The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together. --Saadi
When we were drinking and drugging, we didn't have to deal much with feelings. We turned them off. Then, when we let go of the alcohol and other drugs, we started to come back to life. Now--we have feelings again! But, even now, in recovery, we're scared of too much happiness. It's true--we don't want sadness and pain at all. Yet, feelings--the good and the bad--keep on coming.
And we have to handle them. We are learning to handle our feelings. We're getting strong enough to deal with them. With the help of our friends in the program, and our Higher Power, we're ready for life.
Prayer for the Day: Higher Power, I want to be fully alive, but I'm a little scared. Help me know what to do with my feelings today.
Action for the Day: Today, I'll be open to feelings. I'll enjoy my good feelings and share them. I'll ask for help with hard feelings by praying, and by calling my sponsor.
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
Our Will
We could wish to be moral, we could wish to be philosophically comforted,
in fact, we could will these things with all our might, but the needed
power wasn’t there. Our human resources, as marshalled by the will,
were not sufficient; they failed utterly.
Lack of power, that was our dilemma.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 45
Thought to Ponder
Take a walk with your Higher Power. They will meet you at the Steps.
AA-related 'Alconym'
W O W = Willingness Over Willpower
From: AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net)
Excerpt of The Daily Motivator
Stop and start
by Ralph Marston
Stop caring so much about things that don’t matter. Invest your time, effort, energy in the things that do.
Stop pretending to yourself and others that you’re perfect. Your shortcomings make you real, authentic, and besides, nobody believes you’re perfect anyway.
Stop obsessing over who is to blame for the problem. Start working to create a great solution.
Stop putting things off until conditions are ideal. Start to work from where you are, with what you have, doing all you can do with the situation as it is.
Stop complaining that there’s not enough time. Start making full use of the time you have, right now.
Stop cheating yourself with excuses, procrastination, doubt and fear, out of the great life you deserve to live. Start giving all you have to joyfully lift up all there is.
Stop caring so much about things that don’t matter. Invest your time, effort, energy in the things that do.
Stop pretending to yourself and others that you’re perfect. Your shortcomings make you real, authentic, and besides, nobody believes you’re perfect anyway.
Stop obsessing over who is to blame for the problem. Start working to create a great solution.
Stop putting things off until conditions are ideal. Start to work from where you are, with what you have, doing all you can do with the situation as it is.
Stop complaining that there’s not enough time. Start making full use of the time you have, right now.
Stop cheating yourself with excuses, procrastination, doubt and fear, out of the great life you deserve to live. Start giving all you have to joyfully lift up all there is.
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