Friday, August 3, 2018
Today's Gift
Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud. —Alex Osborn
A garden of flowers blooming is a beautiful sight to see. Through the green leaves surrounding a tulip we see hints of yellow or pink or red. Each day the flowers greet us with their radiant color. Yet, a sudden frost would wilt and fade the flowers.
Each time we create something new with our talents we are like a young flower opening. Whether we draw or write or sew or play a musical instrument, all creativity has this in common. Appreciation from those around us is like sunshine for the flowers. Harsh criticism, however, is like the cold air - it wilts and deadens our desire to create.
We all need warm encouragement for our endeavors, and we can give as well as receive it. In this way, creativity can bloom in our homes and our friendships, bringing a garden full of color and delight into our lives.
What encouragement can I offer to someone near me?
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
To be unconditionally loved is our birthright, and we are so loved by our Higher Power. We desire just such a love from one another, and we deserve it; yet, it's a human quality to look for love before giving it. Thus many of us search intently for signs of love.
Too many of us are searching, rather than loving. Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood. Not easy, but so rewarding, to ourselves as well as to the one who is the focus of our love.
Love is a balm that heals. Loving lightens whatever our burdens. It invites our inner joy to emerge. But most of all, it connects us, one with another. Loneliness leaves. We are no longer alienated from our environment. Love is the mortar that holds the human structure together. Without the expression of love, it crumbles. This recovery program has offered us a plan for loving others, as well as ourselves. Love will come to us, just as surely as we give it away.
Action for the Day: Each and every expression of love I offer today will make smooth another step I take in this 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
“Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.”
What real harm, therefore, had we done? No more, surely,
than we could easily mend with a few casual apologies.
This attitude, of course, is the end result of purposeful forgetting.
It is an attitude which can only be changed by a deep
and honest search of our motives and actions.
- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 79
Thought to Ponder
A fear faced is a fear erased.
AA-related 'Alconym'
W I S D O M = When Into Self, Discover Our Motives
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Daily Motivation
Excerpt of The Daily Motivator
by Ralph Marston
Kindness is almost always bigger when it is received than when it is given. What may be a small thing for you to offer can make a tremendous difference to those who receive it.
Kindness vastly increases the effectiveness of your efforts. Even a small kindness can bring a big result. And a truly ambitious kindness can change the world. Kindness multiplies itself in a way that seems almost magical.
Those whose lives are filled with richness are those who know and understand the value of genuine kindness. Kindness is not a difficult thing to grasp or to bring about, and is freely available to all who wish to practice it.
Every day you come across numerous opportunities for kindness. Each one of them is brimming with a value more precious than gold.
Avail yourself of those opportunities to spread kindness. And know the special magic that kindness brings.
Kindness is almost always bigger when it is received than when it is given. What may be a small thing for you to offer can make a tremendous difference to those who receive it.
Kindness vastly increases the effectiveness of your efforts. Even a small kindness can bring a big result. And a truly ambitious kindness can change the world. Kindness multiplies itself in a way that seems almost magical.
Those whose lives are filled with richness are those who know and understand the value of genuine kindness. Kindness is not a difficult thing to grasp or to bring about, and is freely available to all who wish to practice it.
Every day you come across numerous opportunities for kindness. Each one of them is brimming with a value more precious than gold.
Avail yourself of those opportunities to spread kindness. And know the special magic that kindness brings.
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