Tuesday, January 30, 2018
Today's Gift
When we first started in recovery, we approached it as we did our codependent and addictive behaviors, wanting to possess it all - quickly and totally - and to do it right. Some of us thought we could learn all we needed to know about recovery in a few weeks. In living with this program, we begin to see we are engaged in a lifelong process. We are in a maturing process and this program is our guide. We can't rush it or move on to the next stage too soon. An apple tree does not blossom in the fall, and we do not expect the newly forming apples to ripen before they've grown.
Our existence in this world is like walking through the woods on a rambling path. We can only see as far ahead as the next bend. We no longer seek some big moment when we finally get the outcome or a "cure" for life's experiences. The experience along the way is all we need.
Action for the Day: Today, I will think about the tasks and rewards of this day and trust the future for what is unanswered.
Every Imaginable Remedy
We have tried every imaginable remedy. In some instances there
has been brief recovery, followed always by a still worse relapse.
Physicians who are familiar with alcoholism agree there is no such
thing as making a normal drinker out of an alcoholic.
Science may one day accomplish this, but it hasn’t done so yet.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 31
Thought to Ponder
When we try to control our drinking, we have already lost control.
AA-related 'Alconym'
I S M = I Sabotage Myself
New choice
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
Two things a person should never be angry at: what they can help, and what they cannot help. --Thomas Fuller
In the Serenity Prayer, we pray for the wisdom to know the difference between what we can change and what we cannot. That distinction can be hard for many of us to recognize. When we finally see the reality clearly – that some things we face cannot be controlled by our own will or fixed by force – new possibilities open up to us. When we stop trying to move a mountain, our relationship to the mountain changes. We start to live at peace with the mountain. At the same time we can take greater responsibility for those parts of our lives that we can change.
Peace of mind comes from accepting what we can do nothing about and taking responsibility for what we can.
Today I pray for the wisdom that helps me know the difference.
From the book Wisdom to Know ©
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
We grow in time to trust the future for our answers. --Ruth Benedict
When we first started in recovery, we approached it as we did our codependent and addictive behaviors, wanting to possess it all - quickly and totally - and to do it right. Some of us thought we could learn all we needed to know about recovery in a few weeks. In living with this program, we begin to see we are engaged in a lifelong process. We are in a maturing process and this program is our guide. We can't rush it or move on to the next stage too soon. An apple tree does not blossom in the fall, and we do not expect the newly forming apples to ripen before they've grown.
Our existence in this world is like walking through the woods on a rambling path. We can only see as far ahead as the next bend. We no longer seek some big moment when we finally get the outcome or a "cure" for life's experiences. The experience along the way is all we need.
Action for the Day: Today, I will think about the tasks and rewards of this day and trust the future for what is unanswered.
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
Every Imaginable Remedy
We have tried every imaginable remedy. In some instances there
has been brief recovery, followed always by a still worse relapse.
Physicians who are familiar with alcoholism agree there is no such
thing as making a normal drinker out of an alcoholic.
Science may one day accomplish this, but it hasn’t done so yet.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 31
Thought to Ponder
When we try to control our drinking, we have already lost control.
AA-related 'Alconym'
I S M = I Sabotage Myself
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
New choice
by Ralph Marston
Nothing continues about the way you are, unless you allow it to continue. Your future begins now, and you decide how to be, how to act in it.
At times you’ve disappointed yourself. But now, that disappointing behavior does not have to continue.
Habits, worries, fears, compulsions bind together into a powerful momentum. Fortunately, you are even more powerful.
You can make your choices now based on all you love and treasure and value. Feel your inner beauty, your inner purpose, as you turn cleanly away from all you’ve employed to hold yourself back.
What has served you well, build upon. What has created regret and dismay, let go.
Today, breathe new life into yourself, your dreams, your world. Today is a new choice, and you are positioned to choose very well.
Nothing continues about the way you are, unless you allow it to continue. Your future begins now, and you decide how to be, how to act in it.
At times you’ve disappointed yourself. But now, that disappointing behavior does not have to continue.
Habits, worries, fears, compulsions bind together into a powerful momentum. Fortunately, you are even more powerful.
You can make your choices now based on all you love and treasure and value. Feel your inner beauty, your inner purpose, as you turn cleanly away from all you’ve employed to hold yourself back.
What has served you well, build upon. What has created regret and dismay, let go.
Today, breathe new life into yourself, your dreams, your world. Today is a new choice, and you are positioned to choose very well.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
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