Thursday, September 20, 2018
Today's Gift
Sometimes it does no good to try to “deal” with your feelings. For the
moment, we’re stuck. We can only see things one way. No matter
what anyone says, we’re closed up. For the moment. But this puts our
sobriety at risk.
How do we stop self-pity? Focus on someone else. When we really want
to help someone else be happy, we'll ask our Higher Power’s help.
Then things start to change, because our good deeds come back to us.
Remember, service will always keep us sober.
Prayer for the Day: Higher Power, sometimes I get stuck in my old ways.
Help me change my focus at those times. Help me stay sober.
Action for the Day: I will think of a time when I was stuck in bad feelings.
How did I get out of that spot.
Helping Others
Never talk down to an to a person from any moral or spiritual hilltop;
simply lay out the kit of spiritual tools for their inspection. Show them
how they worked with you. Offer them friendship and fellowship.
Tell them that if they want to get well you will do anything to help.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 95
Thought to Ponder
Sobriety is the adventure of a lifetime.
And it begins the moment we ask AA for help.
AA-related 'Alconym'
P R O G R A M = People Relying On Goodness Relaying A Message
Connected to it all
Education should be the process of helping everyone to discover their uniqueness. —Leo Buscaglia
We are each special, which means there is not another person just like ourselves. Nobody looks just like us. Nobody's voice sounds quite like our own. And nobody thinks through a story just like we do.
Each of us has been created for a special purpose. Maybe it's for what we'll teach a friend, or the way we'll help a sister or a brother. Every day will give us chances to offer our special talents to others. Our being alive is the Universe's way of proving that we're important to the family, the neighborhood, and the world.
What important task lies before me 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
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. --Mark Twain
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. --Mark Twain
Sometimes it does no good to try to “deal” with your feelings. For the
moment, we’re stuck. We can only see things one way. No matter
what anyone says, we’re closed up. For the moment. But this puts our
sobriety at risk.
How do we stop self-pity? Focus on someone else. When we really want
to help someone else be happy, we'll ask our Higher Power’s help.
Then things start to change, because our good deeds come back to us.
Remember, service will always keep us sober.
Prayer for the Day: Higher Power, sometimes I get stuck in my old ways.
Help me change my focus at those times. Help me stay sober.
Action for the Day: I will think of a time when I was stuck in bad feelings.
How did I get out of that spot.
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
Never talk down to an to a person from any moral or spiritual hilltop;
simply lay out the kit of spiritual tools for their inspection. Show them
how they worked with you. Offer them friendship and fellowship.
Tell them that if they want to get well you will do anything to help.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 95
Thought to Ponder
Sobriety is the adventure of a lifetime.
And it begins the moment we ask AA for help.
AA-related 'Alconym'
P R O G R A M = People Relying On Goodness Relaying A Message
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Daily Motivation
Excerpt of The Daily Motivator
Connected to it all
by Ralph Marston
You are connected to all of existence. Choose always to make good use of that connection.
You are connected to people who can support and encourage you. Explore the connection, strengthen it, and build upon it.
You are connected to people who can benefit greatly from your presence, your attention, and your assistance. Be thankful for the opportunity, and continue to discover ways to make a difference in the lives of others.
You are connected to an endless abundance of resources, information, ideas, and energy. Step forward each morning with love, and with the intention of creating new, meaningful value from all that abundance.
Your awareness, your thoughts, your actions, are deeply connected to all that is. Every choice echoes endlessly through life, so make those choices with kindness and care.
Everything you do matters to everything that is. Do it well.
You are connected to all of existence. Choose always to make good use of that connection.
You are connected to people who can support and encourage you. Explore the connection, strengthen it, and build upon it.
You are connected to people who can benefit greatly from your presence, your attention, and your assistance. Be thankful for the opportunity, and continue to discover ways to make a difference in the lives of others.
You are connected to an endless abundance of resources, information, ideas, and energy. Step forward each morning with love, and with the intention of creating new, meaningful value from all that abundance.
Your awareness, your thoughts, your actions, are deeply connected to all that is. Every choice echoes endlessly through life, so make those choices with kindness and care.
Everything you do matters to everything that is. Do it well.
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