Tuesday, December 26, 2017
Today's Gift
We must look closely; focus intently on the subjects of our attention. Within these subjects is the explanation of life's mysteries. To observe anything closely means we must pull it aside with our minds and fondle it, perhaps. We must let the richness of the object, the person, the event, wash over us and savor its memory.
Many of us only now are able to look around ourselves slowly, with care, noting the detail, the brilliant color of life. Each day is an opportunity to observe and absorb the beauty while it blooms.
Action for the Day: I will look for beauty today, in myself, and in a friend, and I will find it.
Our PlansOn awakening let us think about the twenty-four hours ahead.
We consider our plans for the day. Before we begin, we ask our Higher Power
to direct our thinking, especially asking that it be divorced
from self-pity, dishonest or self-seeking motives.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 86
Thought to Ponder
Life is fragile, handle with prayer.
AA-related 'Alconym'
P R A Y E R = Praying Regularly Allows Your Everyday Recovery
Give of yourself
I take it that what all people are really after is some form of, perhaps only some formula of, peace. —James Conrad
When snow drifts quietly down on a winter evening, the hush of nature brings a great sense of peace. Each of us has known times like this. Many of these times did not depend on conditions like snow, or soft music. When we are able to keep a quiet center within ourselves, we are truly in tune with the spirit. Peace of the heart comes from a Power greater than ourselves, and from the faith that all of us, and all that happens to us, are part of a great plan.
Just as the snow falls softly, without fear, without regard for whether it will land on a tree bough or in the street, we, too, can live our lives with peaceful acceptance of whatever comes along, knowing it comes to us naturally and from our Higher Power.
Am I prepared to accept wherever I will land 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
It is only framed in space that beauty blooms; only in space are events, and objects and people unique and significant and therefore beautiful. --Anne Morrow Lindbergh
We must look closely; focus intently on the subjects of our attention. Within these subjects is the explanation of life's mysteries. To observe anything closely means we must pull it aside with our minds and fondle it, perhaps. We must let the richness of the object, the person, the event, wash over us and savor its memory.
Many of us only now are able to look around ourselves slowly, with care, noting the detail, the brilliant color of life. Each day is an opportunity to observe and absorb the beauty while it blooms.
Action for the Day: I will look for beauty today, in myself, and in a friend, and I will find it.
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
We consider our plans for the day. Before we begin, we ask our Higher Power
to direct our thinking, especially asking that it be divorced
from self-pity, dishonest or self-seeking motives.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 86
Thought to Ponder
Life is fragile, handle with prayer.
AA-related 'Alconym'
P R A Y E R = Praying Regularly Allows Your Everyday Recovery
From: AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net)
Excerpt of The Daily Motivator
by Ralph Marston
Give new peace to the moment. Give new hope to the day.
Give laughter, kindness, understanding. Give your time to be there with those you love, to listen, to share the beautiful experience of simply being.
There are hearts you can warm today. There are burdens you can ease, joys you can share.
Give of yourself, and add treasure to your heart that will always be there. Give birth to new richness, and let it spread through the lives around you.
Experience again and again how right it feels to make the world a little brighter. Lose yourself in a generous spirit, letting worries and concerns and judgments melt away.
Give the best of who you are. And who you are gets better, along with all of life.
Give new peace to the moment. Give new hope to the day.
Give laughter, kindness, understanding. Give your time to be there with those you love, to listen, to share the beautiful experience of simply being.
There are hearts you can warm today. There are burdens you can ease, joys you can share.
Give of yourself, and add treasure to your heart that will always be there. Give birth to new richness, and let it spread through the lives around you.
Experience again and again how right it feels to make the world a little brighter. Lose yourself in a generous spirit, letting worries and concerns and judgments melt away.
Give the best of who you are. And who you are gets better, along with all of life.
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