Tuesday, February 6, 2018
Today's Gift
It's the moment that's important. Each moment holds choice. Our spirits grow through working our program moment to moment. Moments lead to days, days to years, and years to a life of honest recovery.
It will be the moments of choice that we remember. The moment we call a friend instead of being alone.
The moment we decide to go for a walk instead of arguing with our partner. The moment we decide to go to an extra meeting instead of drinking or using other drugs. The moments lead us to our Higher Power.
These moments teach us that we're human, that we need others. At these moments, we know others care about us--our joys, and our struggles.
Prayer for the Day: Higher Power, help me remember that my recovery is made up of many moments of choice.
Today’s Action: I'll look back over the last twenty-four hours. What moments come to mind? Why were they important to me.
Stability
When we developed still more, we discovered the best possible source
of emotional stability to be our Higher Power Themself. We found that dependence
upon Their perfect justice, forgiveness, and love was healthy, and that
it would work where nothing else would.
- Twelve Steps & Twelve Traditions, p. 116
Thought to Ponder
No Higher Power, no peace — know Higher Power, know peace.
AA-related 'Alconym'
F A I T H = For All I Trust Him/Her
Don’t be so certain
There's one thing you can't give away. You can't give away a smile. It always comes back to you. --Violet Hensley
We have had years of experience with the results of smiling. How many times have we felt better simply because we smiled, even at a stranger? Smiling is somewhat like yawning. When we see someone do it, it initiates one in us, too. But how often are we the initiators of a smile when we catch the attention of someone? Seldom. And what a shame.
As kids we probably heard that it took more muscles to frown than to smile. We usually were told that in the midst of pouting and the message agitated us. Whether or not it's a truth based on research doesn't really matter. Smiling simply feels good. It inspires the same good feelings in others, too.
Life could be simpler than we choose to make it. We really don't have to assess every situation before determining what expression we'll wear. We need not search for a hidden meaning in every action or expression of the others we're with. We can awake each day, decide that we'll respond to our experiences and the people in them with respect and friendliness, and put on a smile, just like we put on lipstick or a cap when it's chilly out. Some of life's decisions are simple. Let's relish them.
My first smile will be at me in the mirror today. If I savor it, it will set a good tone for the rest of the day.
From the book Keepers of the Wisdom ©
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 do not remember days, we remember moments.----Cesare Pavese
We do not remember days, we remember moments.----Cesare Pavese
It's the moment that's important. Each moment holds choice. Our spirits grow through working our program moment to moment. Moments lead to days, days to years, and years to a life of honest recovery.
It will be the moments of choice that we remember. The moment we call a friend instead of being alone.
The moment we decide to go for a walk instead of arguing with our partner. The moment we decide to go to an extra meeting instead of drinking or using other drugs. The moments lead us to our Higher Power.
These moments teach us that we're human, that we need others. At these moments, we know others care about us--our joys, and our struggles.
Prayer for the Day: Higher Power, help me remember that my recovery is made up of many moments of choice.
Today’s Action: I'll look back over the last twenty-four hours. What moments come to mind? Why were they important to me.
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
Stability
When we developed still more, we discovered the best possible source
of emotional stability to be our Higher Power Themself. We found that dependence
upon Their perfect justice, forgiveness, and love was healthy, and that
it would work where nothing else would.
- Twelve Steps & Twelve Traditions, p. 116
Thought to Ponder
No Higher Power, no peace — know Higher Power, know peace.
AA-related 'Alconym'
F A I T H = For All I Trust Him/Her
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
Don’t be so certain
by Ralph Marston
If you’ve decided you already know everything this day will hold, you’ve walled yourself off from its best possibilities. If you’re sure of exactly how the experience will be, you won’t get much out of it.
Be intentional, be purposeful, be confident, but don’t always be so certain. Rejoice in the knowledge that you don’t know it all, haven’t seen it all.
Live with the courage and humility to admit there’s a whole, wonderful universe out there you know nearly nothing about. Open yourself to truths that it seems cannot be true.
Listen to the rumble of a distant train, and resist the urge to look up where it’s going. Instead, imagine you’re riding along with it to a mysterious destination, wondering what you’ll see when you get there.
Just because you know the facts doesn’t mean you understand the entire truth. Sometimes what you don’t know can rouse you to feel more fully alive than all you do know.
Let go of the need to always be so certain. And let in more of the wondrous treasures you never knew you never knew of.
If you’ve decided you already know everything this day will hold, you’ve walled yourself off from its best possibilities. If you’re sure of exactly how the experience will be, you won’t get much out of it.
Be intentional, be purposeful, be confident, but don’t always be so certain. Rejoice in the knowledge that you don’t know it all, haven’t seen it all.
Live with the courage and humility to admit there’s a whole, wonderful universe out there you know nearly nothing about. Open yourself to truths that it seems cannot be true.
Listen to the rumble of a distant train, and resist the urge to look up where it’s going. Instead, imagine you’re riding along with it to a mysterious destination, wondering what you’ll see when you get there.
Just because you know the facts doesn’t mean you understand the entire truth. Sometimes what you don’t know can rouse you to feel more fully alive than all you do know.
Let go of the need to always be so certain. And let in more of the wondrous treasures you never knew you never knew of.
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