Wednesday, August 1, 2018
Today's Gift
Thank your Higher Ower, life, and the universe for everyone and everything sent your way.
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, and confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. It turns problems into gifts, failures into successes, the unexpected into perfect timing, and mistakes into important events. It can turn an existence into a real life, and disconnected situations into important and beneficial lessons. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Gratitude makes things right.
Gratitude turns negative energy into positive energy. There is no situations or circumstance so small or large that it is not susceptible to gratitude's power. We can start with whom we are and what we have today, apply gratitude, then let it work its magic.
Say thank you, until you mean it. if you say it long enough, you will believe it.
Pride
Pride lures us into making demands upon ourselves or upon others which
cannot be met without perverting or misusing our God-given instincts.
When the satisfaction of our instincts for sex, security, and society becomes
the sole object of our lives, then pride steps in to justify our excesses.
- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 49
Thought to Ponder
The difference between pride and humility:
Pride is who is right. Humility is what is right.
AA-related 'Alconym'
P R I D E = Pretty Ridiculous Individual Directing Everything
Excerpt of The Daily Motivator
Richness of being
I think my peace comes from my good fortune. --Jim Burns
How we define "good fortune" is a significant indicator of one's attitude. While winning the lottery might be judged as good fortune by all of us, virtually every other occurrence will be evaluated in a very individualistic way. What seems like a wonderful situation or opportunity to one might greatly frighten their neighbor.
Peacefulness is a feeling everyone deserves. Thank goodness it's attainable. Perhaps we're beginning to realize that it always was available even though it didn't seem within our grasp. The fault was never the result of external circumstances, even though that was where we laid the blame. Finally, we're becoming willing to see that we will have all the peace and good fortune we want by simply taking charge of how we interpret the experiences that trouble us.
We're never too old to develop a positive outlook on life. Some say, "I'm too old to change." But that's not true. Let's offer a good example to a friend who is still stuck in the chaos of a defeated perspective. Our demonstration of the attainment of peace may be all this person needs.
Peace can be enjoyed by me today, regardless of circumstances, if I shift my perception ever so slightly.
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 learn the magical lesson that making the most of what we have turns it into more. --Codependent No More
Gratitude
Say thank you, until we mean it.
We learn the magical lesson that making the most of what we have turns it into more. --Codependent No More
Gratitude
Say thank you, until we mean it.
Thank your Higher Ower, life, and the universe for everyone and everything sent your way.
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, and confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. It turns problems into gifts, failures into successes, the unexpected into perfect timing, and mistakes into important events. It can turn an existence into a real life, and disconnected situations into important and beneficial lessons. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Gratitude makes things right.
Gratitude turns negative energy into positive energy. There is no situations or circumstance so small or large that it is not susceptible to gratitude's power. We can start with whom we are and what we have today, apply gratitude, then let it work its magic.
Say thank you, until you mean it. if you say it long enough, you will believe it.
Action for the Day: Today, I will shine the transforming light of gratitude on all the circumstances of my life.
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
Pride
Pride lures us into making demands upon ourselves or upon others which
cannot be met without perverting or misusing our God-given instincts.
When the satisfaction of our instincts for sex, security, and society becomes
the sole object of our lives, then pride steps in to justify our excesses.
- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 49
Thought to Ponder
The difference between pride and humility:
Pride is who is right. Humility is what is right.
AA-related 'Alconym'
P R I D E = Pretty Ridiculous Individual Directing Everything
From: AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net)
Excerpt of The Daily Motivator
Richness of being
by Ralph Marston
This moment has a beauty all its own. Look carefully and lovingly, and the real value of this moment is yours.
Instead of thinking ahead to what might or might not come next, pay attention to the richness of what is now. Instead of re-fighting past battles in your mind, open yourself to the treasure that is in front of you.
A miracle is unfolding right before your eyes. In the big picture and in the smallest of details, this very moment holds everything you could possibly need or desire.
This moment does not care how old you are, how much money you have, or what your hair looks like. Its treasures and possibilities are yours to experience no matter what.
Everything is as it is right now, and there is an immeasurable sense of peace in letting it be. Freely give your love and joy and meaning to this moment and travel along in the growing richness of being.
Think of how truly fortunate you are to be here and now. Live that good fortune with all that you are.
This moment has a beauty all its own. Look carefully and lovingly, and the real value of this moment is yours.
Instead of thinking ahead to what might or might not come next, pay attention to the richness of what is now. Instead of re-fighting past battles in your mind, open yourself to the treasure that is in front of you.
A miracle is unfolding right before your eyes. In the big picture and in the smallest of details, this very moment holds everything you could possibly need or desire.
This moment does not care how old you are, how much money you have, or what your hair looks like. Its treasures and possibilities are yours to experience no matter what.
Everything is as it is right now, and there is an immeasurable sense of peace in letting it be. Freely give your love and joy and meaning to this moment and travel along in the growing richness of being.
Think of how truly fortunate you are to be here and now. Live that good fortune with all that you are.
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