Monday, October 1, 2018
Today's Gift
Life without idealism is empty indeed. We must have hope or starve to death. --Pearl Buck
Our ideals, the principles that order our lives, are essential to a healing life. Some of us have lived a pattern in which we did not know what we believed. If someone we liked stated a viewpoint, we might wear it for a while like a new shirt - but with no personal commitment. Others of us have indulged in negativism and hopelessness. Life is more fulfilling when we assert our beliefs and give ourselves to them. As human beings, we are unable to perfectly live out our beliefs, but we become whole men by giving our energies to the attempt.
Action for the Day: I will dare to meet my negativism with my ideals. My spiritual health will give me life.
Seemingly Hopeless
WE, OF Alcoholics Anonymous, are more than one hundred men and women
who have recovered from a seemingly hopeless state of mind and body.
To show other alcoholics precisely how we have recovered is the main purpose of this book.
For them, we hope these pages will prove so convincing
that no further authentication will be necessary.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, Foreword to First Edition, p.xiii
Thought to Ponder
When alcohol beat me to my knees, I found I was right where I needed to be.
AA-related 'Alconym'
S O L U T I O N S = Saving Our Lives Using The Inventory Of Needed Steps
Excerpt of The Daily Motivator
Persevere
by Ralph Marston
Somewhere within you is the commitment to move forward no matter what. Find that commitment and activate it.
Somewhere in your life is a purpose that can push you past all resistance. Connect with that purpose, keep it strong and at the forefront of your awareness.
Each difficult moment makes you feel like your easiest option is simply to give up. But you know that in truth your best option is always to persevere.
Stay true to the value, the goodness, the love you feel at your core. Do what you know is right, now, and again, and again.
The discipline to persevere is well within your reach. It’s mainly a matter of choosing to persevere, and you can make that choice every time.
Life will throw challenges at you again and again. Yet you always have the reason, the will, and the extraordinary opportunity, to persevere.
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.” – Bernard M. Maruch
Be Who You Are
For some of us, this can be frightening. What would happen if we felt what we felt, said what we wanted, became firm about our beliefs, and valued what we needed? What would happen if we let go of our camouflage of adaptation? What would happen if we owned our power to be ourselves?
Would people still like us? Would they go away? Would they become angry?
There comes a time when we become willing and ready to take that risk. To continue growing, and living with ourselves, we realize we must liberate ourselves. It becomes time to stop allowing ourselves to be so controlled by others and their expectations and be true to ourselves - regardless of the reaction of others.
Before long, we begin to understand. Some people may go away, but the relationship would have ended anyway. Some people stay and love and respect us more for taking the risk of being whom we are. We begin to achieve intimacy, and relationships that work.
We discover that who we are has always been good enough. It is who we were intended to be.
Today, I will own my power to be myself.
From The Language of Letting Go by Melody Beattie ©
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
Our ideals, the principles that order our lives, are essential to a healing life. Some of us have lived a pattern in which we did not know what we believed. If someone we liked stated a viewpoint, we might wear it for a while like a new shirt - but with no personal commitment. Others of us have indulged in negativism and hopelessness. Life is more fulfilling when we assert our beliefs and give ourselves to them. As human beings, we are unable to perfectly live out our beliefs, but we become whole men by giving our energies to the attempt.
Is beauty in music, art, and nature a worthwhile ideal for us? Are fairness and justice for all people what we value? Are love and brotherhood ideals we hold dear? When we dare assert these values in our lives, they are life giving to us. They mature us. Reaching for what is worthwhile, rather than cursing what is not, gives us a design for making all our choices, and we have hope.
Action for the Day: I will dare to meet my negativism with my ideals. My spiritual health will give me 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
WE, OF Alcoholics Anonymous, are more than one hundred men and women
who have recovered from a seemingly hopeless state of mind and body.
To show other alcoholics precisely how we have recovered is the main purpose of this book.
For them, we hope these pages will prove so convincing
that no further authentication will be necessary.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, Foreword to First Edition, p.xiii
Thought to Ponder
When alcohol beat me to my knees, I found I was right where I needed to be.
AA-related 'Alconym'
S O L U T I O N S = Saving Our Lives Using The Inventory Of Needed Steps
From: AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net)
Excerpt of The Daily Motivator
by Ralph Marston
Somewhere within you is the commitment to move forward no matter what. Find that commitment and activate it.
Somewhere in your life is a purpose that can push you past all resistance. Connect with that purpose, keep it strong and at the forefront of your awareness.
Each difficult moment makes you feel like your easiest option is simply to give up. But you know that in truth your best option is always to persevere.
Stay true to the value, the goodness, the love you feel at your core. Do what you know is right, now, and again, and again.
The discipline to persevere is well within your reach. It’s mainly a matter of choosing to persevere, and you can make that choice every time.
Life will throw challenges at you again and again. Yet you always have the reason, the will, and the extraordinary opportunity, to persevere.
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