Thursday, February 8, 2018
Today's Gift
From: Bluidkiti's Alcohol and Drug Addictions Recovery Help/Support Forums Daily Recovery Readings - http://www.bluidkiti.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=2
A Solution
But we saw that it really worked in others, and we had come to believe in
the hopelessness and futility of life as we had been living it. When, therefore,
we were approached by those in whom the problem had been solved,
there was nothing left for us but to pick up the simple kit of spiritual tools laid at our feet.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 25
Thought to Ponder
The solution is simple. The solution is spiritual.
AA-related 'Alconym'
H O W = Honest, Open-minded, Willing
Thought energy
If the best person's faults were written on their forehead, it would make them pull their hat over their eyes. —Gaelic proverb
When we deal with our faults and imperfections, we are dealing with the basic issues of being a person. We can become bitter and cynical about the imperfections of others, or we can realize every person is incomplete but growing, just as we are. The way we look at the faults in others and the way we look at our own are closely tied together. In our spiritual journey, we must begin with the premise that no person ever achieves perfection.
Perfection apparently is not what this life is about at all, since perfection is nonexistent. We are lovable, and we can love in the process of living our lives. Since we are not perfect, we have to be accountable. We must have standards for our behavior and hold ourselves to those standards, admitting our mistakes and making repairs where we can.
I will try to acknowledge my mistakes and give up the idea of ever becoming perfect.
From Touchstones: A Book of Daily Meditations for Men ©
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
Failure is impossible.--Susan B. Anthony
Failure is an attitude. Having an attitude of failure can't help us. It can only hurt us. If we're not careful, it can grow into a way of life. So, when we feel like failures, we'd better look at our attitudes.
An attitude of failure often comes from making mistakes. But we can learn to see our mistakes as lessons. This turns mistakes into gains, not failures. Sometimes, we try to do things that just can't be done. When we act like we can control others, we're going to fail. When we act like we know everything, we're going to fail. If we try to act like a God, we're going to fail.
We can't control others. We can't know everything. We're not a God. We're human. If we act human, we've already won.
Prayer for the Day: Higher Power, help me to learn from my attitudes. Whatever the outcome, help me learn.
Action for the Day: Facing our past "failures" is the first step to learning from them. I'll talk to my sponsor about a past failure and the good that came from it.
Failure is impossible.--Susan B. Anthony
Failure is an attitude. Having an attitude of failure can't help us. It can only hurt us. If we're not careful, it can grow into a way of life. So, when we feel like failures, we'd better look at our attitudes.
An attitude of failure often comes from making mistakes. But we can learn to see our mistakes as lessons. This turns mistakes into gains, not failures. Sometimes, we try to do things that just can't be done. When we act like we can control others, we're going to fail. When we act like we know everything, we're going to fail. If we try to act like a God, we're going to fail.
We can't control others. We can't know everything. We're not a God. We're human. If we act human, we've already won.
Prayer for the Day: Higher Power, help me to learn from my attitudes. Whatever the outcome, help me learn.
Action for the Day: Facing our past "failures" is the first step to learning from them. I'll talk to my sponsor about a past failure and the good that came from 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
A Solution
But we saw that it really worked in others, and we had come to believe in
the hopelessness and futility of life as we had been living it. When, therefore,
we were approached by those in whom the problem had been solved,
there was nothing left for us but to pick up the simple kit of spiritual tools laid at our feet.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 25
Thought to Ponder
The solution is simple. The solution is spiritual.
AA-related 'Alconym'
H O W = Honest, Open-minded, Willing
From: AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net)
Excerpt of The Daily Motivator
Thought energy
by Ralph Marston
What is possible for you is what you see as possible. What limits you is whatever you consider to be a limitation.
Your thoughts produce energy that flows into everything you do. The effectiveness of that energy is determined by the content of those thoughts.
Your resistance to the task, to the process, to the result, is what makes it a struggle. Acceptance enables, creates, manifests in your life whatever you choose to accept and to live.
Actions, guided by your thoughts, give specific form to abundance. Focus the whole of your life, of your being, on what you seek, on what you love, and it grows stronger and more abundant.
You have as much or as little power as you think you have. What you honestly, genuinely think you can do and want to do, you will do.
Your thoughts set you on the path to whatever you think. Choose them wisely, choose them with kindness, integrity, and love.
What is possible for you is what you see as possible. What limits you is whatever you consider to be a limitation.
Your thoughts produce energy that flows into everything you do. The effectiveness of that energy is determined by the content of those thoughts.
Your resistance to the task, to the process, to the result, is what makes it a struggle. Acceptance enables, creates, manifests in your life whatever you choose to accept and to live.
Actions, guided by your thoughts, give specific form to abundance. Focus the whole of your life, of your being, on what you seek, on what you love, and it grows stronger and more abundant.
You have as much or as little power as you think you have. What you honestly, genuinely think you can do and want to do, you will do.
Your thoughts set you on the path to whatever you think. Choose them wisely, choose them with kindness, integrity, and love.
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