Thursday, March 1, 2018
Today's Gift
Each experience we have plays its part in the total picture of our lives. The steps we have taken, the path we travel today, and our direction tomorrow are not by chance. There is a pattern. We each have a destiny. We may have veered off the path in the past, and we may veer off it again. But we'll be guided back, and our paths intersect. None of us is traveling alone. We have each other and the creative force that is at the helm.
When we look around us and reflect on how our lives are influenced by the persons close to us, we become aware that our presence affects their lives as well. Most of us could never have predicted the events that have influenced us. Nor can we anticipate what the future may hold. We can be certain, however, that we are safe; a power greater than ourselves is orchestrating our affairs.
There were times we feared we'd never survive an experience. Perhaps we still struggle with fears about new experiences. But every experience adds a necessary thread to the pattern our life is weaving. We have the gift of reflection. We can understand, today, the importance of particular events of the past. Next month, next year, we'll understand today.
The Main Problem
These observations would be academic and pointless if our friend never took
the first drink, thereby setting the terrible cycle in motion. Therefore, the main
problem of the alcoholic centers in their mind, rather than in their body. If you ask
them why they started on that last bender, the chances are they will offer you any one
of a hundred alibis. Sometimes these excuses have a certain plausibility, but none
of them really makes sense in the light of the havoc an alcoholic’s drinking bout creates.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 23
Thought to Ponder
I want the gift of an untroubled mind.
AA-related 'Alconym'
C H A O S = Creating Havoc Around OurSelves
Changes come
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next. —Ursula LeGuin
The world around us changes constantly. Trees turn from green to beautiful shades of yellow, orange, and brown in the fall. Yet, even if we watched the trees carefully, every minute of the day, we could not actually see the colors change. Change requires time, preparation, and patience.
To make the changes we want, we need to let go of unhealthy but comfortable patterns that we're stuck in, the way the trees let their colors change and finally let go of their leaves altogether. We can't have total change right now, no matter how much we want it. It's important to accept both who we are now and who we are becoming. Just as the tree trusts without question that its leaves will grow and lets go of them when the time comes, we can believe in our own power to grow and let go of our accomplishments when the time is right.
When we do, we can be assured that our lives will blossom again, like trees in the spring coming to life after a cold winter.
Do I have any new blossoms 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
What a strange pattern the shuttle of life can weave. --Frances Marion
What a strange pattern the shuttle of life can weave. --Frances Marion
Each experience we have plays its part in the total picture of our lives. The steps we have taken, the path we travel today, and our direction tomorrow are not by chance. There is a pattern. We each have a destiny. We may have veered off the path in the past, and we may veer off it again. But we'll be guided back, and our paths intersect. None of us is traveling alone. We have each other and the creative force that is at the helm.
When we look around us and reflect on how our lives are influenced by the persons close to us, we become aware that our presence affects their lives as well. Most of us could never have predicted the events that have influenced us. Nor can we anticipate what the future may hold. We can be certain, however, that we are safe; a power greater than ourselves is orchestrating our affairs.
There were times we feared we'd never survive an experience. Perhaps we still struggle with fears about new experiences. But every experience adds a necessary thread to the pattern our life is weaving. We have the gift of reflection. We can understand, today, the importance of particular events of the past. Next month, next year, we'll understand today.
Action for the Day: I shall enjoy the richness of today. My life is weaving an intricate, necessary pattern that is uniquely mine.
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
The Main Problem
These observations would be academic and pointless if our friend never took
the first drink, thereby setting the terrible cycle in motion. Therefore, the main
problem of the alcoholic centers in their mind, rather than in their body. If you ask
them why they started on that last bender, the chances are they will offer you any one
of a hundred alibis. Sometimes these excuses have a certain plausibility, but none
of them really makes sense in the light of the havoc an alcoholic’s drinking bout creates.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 23
Thought to Ponder
I want the gift of an untroubled mind.
AA-related 'Alconym'
C H A O S = Creating Havoc Around OurSelves
From: AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net)
Excerpt of The Daily Motivator
by Ralph Marston
You cannot know precisely what tomorrow will bring. Yet there is one thing about tomorrow of which you can be certain. You can be sure that tomorrow will be, in many ways, different than today. Things will continue to change, as they always do.
Life itself is a process of change. Night follows day, spring follows winter. Some things grow, while others fade. Styles change, markets change, opinions change, and through it all, life moves forward, changing from day to day.
When the changes don’t go your way, take heart. For even the changes are subject to change, and if you’re down, the next change can bring you back up.
Learn to weather the changes, to roll with the punches and to run when the wind is at your back. And as the changes continue to come, you’ll move surely and steadily ahead.
You cannot know precisely what tomorrow will bring. Yet there is one thing about tomorrow of which you can be certain. You can be sure that tomorrow will be, in many ways, different than today. Things will continue to change, as they always do.
Life itself is a process of change. Night follows day, spring follows winter. Some things grow, while others fade. Styles change, markets change, opinions change, and through it all, life moves forward, changing from day to day.
When the changes don’t go your way, take heart. For even the changes are subject to change, and if you’re down, the next change can bring you back up.
Learn to weather the changes, to roll with the punches and to run when the wind is at your back. And as the changes continue to come, you’ll move surely and steadily ahead.
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