Thursday, April 5, 2018
Today's Gift
Many of us look at the joy and beauty of the program with caution. It was different from our addictive joy. Was it to be trusted? When we started working the Steps, we found inner joy and beauty. As we let go and gave in to the program, we found more happiness. We found joy in ourselves, our friends, our Higher Power, and those around us. Our self-pity changed to self-respect. We were truly out in the sunshine. We were no longer lost in misery. We know how to walk through misery to find joy.
Prayer for the Day: May I become better friends with myself. Higher Power, let me see the world through Your innocent, yet wise and loving eyes
Action for the Day: Today I'll work to make my life and the lives of others more joyful. I'll greet myself and others with much joy.
True Motives
But in other instances only the closest scrutiny will reveal what our true motives were.
There are cases where our ancient enemy, rationalization, has stepped in and has
justified conduct which was really wrong. The temptation here is to imagine that we
had good motives and reasons when we really didn't.
- Twelve Steps & Twelve Traditions, p. 94
Thought to Ponder
Don't believe everything you think.
AA-related 'Alconym'
W I S D O M = When Into Self, Discover Our Motives
Fill this day with life
I came to the conclusion then that "continual mindfulness". . . must mean, not a sergeant-major-like drilling of thoughts, but a continual readiness to look and readiness to accept whatever came. —Joanna Field
Resistance to the events, the situations, the many people who come into our lives blocks the growth we are offered every day. Every moment of every day is offering us a gift: the gift of awareness of other persons, awareness of our natural surroundings, awareness of our own personal impact on creation. And in awareness comes our growth as a person.
Living in the now, being present in the moment, guarantees us the protection of our Higher Power and the Universe. And in the stretches of time when we anxiously anticipate the events of the future, we cheat ourselves of the security They offer us right now.
We are always being taken care of, right here, right now. Being mindful, this minute, of what's happening and only this, eases all anxieties, erases all fears. We only struggle when we have moved our sights from the present moment. Within the now lies all peace.
The most important lesson I have to learn, the lesson that will eliminate all of my pain and struggle, is to receive fully that which is offered in each moment of my life.
From Each Day a New Beginning: Daily Meditations for Women by Karen Casey ©
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
Go outside, to the fields, enjoy nature and the sunshine, go out and try to recapture happiness in yourself and in your Higher Power.---Anne Frank
Many of us look at the joy and beauty of the program with caution. It was different from our addictive joy. Was it to be trusted? When we started working the Steps, we found inner joy and beauty. As we let go and gave in to the program, we found more happiness. We found joy in ourselves, our friends, our Higher Power, and those around us. Our self-pity changed to self-respect. We were truly out in the sunshine. We were no longer lost in misery. We know how to walk through misery to find joy.
Prayer for the Day: May I become better friends with myself. Higher Power, let me see the world through Your innocent, yet wise and loving eyes
Action for the Day: Today I'll work to make my life and the lives of others more joyful. I'll greet myself and others with much joy.
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
But in other instances only the closest scrutiny will reveal what our true motives were.
There are cases where our ancient enemy, rationalization, has stepped in and has
justified conduct which was really wrong. The temptation here is to imagine that we
had good motives and reasons when we really didn't.
- Twelve Steps & Twelve Traditions, p. 94
Thought to Ponder
Don't believe everything you think.
AA-related 'Alconym'
W I S D O M = When Into Self, Discover Our Motives
From: AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net)
Excerpt of The Daily Motivator
by Ralph Marston
You have this whole day to fill with life. Marvel at your good fortune, and make the most of it.
Go ahead and allow yourself to be overwhelmed with gratitude. Then focus the energy of that gratitude into rich, generous, purposeful living.
You have countless good thoughts to think, good people to connect with, invigorating and enlightening experiences to claim. Get up, get excited about the possibilities, and get going.
You can learn, teach, experience, encourage, explore, and assist. You can make your unique good fortune even better by finding new ways to express it and share it with the world.
Give all of yourself to each moment, to each experience, to every effort and encounter. Be eager to combine time-tested values from your past with fresh new possibilities for the future.
This day is where your wondrous life has time and space to really live. Imagine the best, then give life to what you imagine.
You have this whole day to fill with life. Marvel at your good fortune, and make the most of it.
Go ahead and allow yourself to be overwhelmed with gratitude. Then focus the energy of that gratitude into rich, generous, purposeful living.
You have countless good thoughts to think, good people to connect with, invigorating and enlightening experiences to claim. Get up, get excited about the possibilities, and get going.
You can learn, teach, experience, encourage, explore, and assist. You can make your unique good fortune even better by finding new ways to express it and share it with the world.
Give all of yourself to each moment, to each experience, to every effort and encounter. Be eager to combine time-tested values from your past with fresh new possibilities for the future.
This day is where your wondrous life has time and space to really live. Imagine the best, then give life to what you imagine.
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