Thursday, October 11, 2018
Today's Gift
The truth is, life hard. Accepting this fact will make it easier. Remember
how well it worked in Step One? Once we admitted and that we were
powerless over alcohol and other drugs, we were given the power to recover.
It works the same with life’s problems.
We can spend a lot of energy trying to avoid life’s hardships. But our program
teaches us to use the same energy to solve our problems. Problems are chances
to better ourselves and become more spiritual. We have a choice: we can either
use our energy to avoid problems, or we can face them. When we stop wasting
energy, we start to feel more sure of ourselves.
Prayer for the Day: Higher Power, life is to be lived, both the easy and the hard
parts. Help me face and learn from it all.
Action for the Day: I’ll work at not complaining about how hard life is. I’ll take
the same energy and us it to solve problems I may face.
Vital Faith
But they will be curious to learn why their own convictions have not worked
and why yours seem to work so well. They may be an example of the truth
that faith alone is insufficient. To be vital, faith must be accompanied
by self sacrifice and unselfish, constructive action.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 93
Thought to Ponder
If faith without works is dead; then willingness without action is fantasy.
AA-related 'Alconym'
H O W = Honest, Open-minded, Willing
Realistically hopeful
A musician must make music; an artist must paint, a poet must write, if they are to be at peace with themselves. What a person can be, they must be. —Abraham Maslow
The same is true of a seamstress, carpenter, homemaker, lawyer, or mechanic. The question is, who and what am I? What must I do to be at peace with myself? What can I be, for that is what I must be?
A lucky few of us find the answers to these questions fairly early in life, and we work to develop into the people we can be and must be. We do that by looking at our deepest desires, and ask what would bring fulfillment for us. We ask what we would enjoy doing most, what we believe we have the ability to be really good at. What is it that sometimes burns within us to be expressed or done? The answers to what we can be, what we must be, come from within, through asking ourselves these questions.
What kind of a person am I capable of being?
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
May you live all the days of your life. ---Jonathan Swift
May you live all the days of your life. ---Jonathan Swift
The truth is, life hard. Accepting this fact will make it easier. Remember
how well it worked in Step One? Once we admitted and that we were
powerless over alcohol and other drugs, we were given the power to recover.
It works the same with life’s problems.
We can spend a lot of energy trying to avoid life’s hardships. But our program
teaches us to use the same energy to solve our problems. Problems are chances
to better ourselves and become more spiritual. We have a choice: we can either
use our energy to avoid problems, or we can face them. When we stop wasting
energy, we start to feel more sure of ourselves.
Prayer for the Day: Higher Power, life is to be lived, both the easy and the hard
parts. Help me face and learn from it all.
Action for the Day: I’ll work at not complaining about how hard life is. I’ll take
the same energy and us it to solve problems I may face.
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
Vital Faith
But they will be curious to learn why their own convictions have not worked
and why yours seem to work so well. They may be an example of the truth
that faith alone is insufficient. To be vital, faith must be accompanied
by self sacrifice and unselfish, constructive action.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 93
Thought to Ponder
If faith without works is dead; then willingness without action is fantasy.
AA-related 'Alconym'
H O W = Honest, Open-minded, Willing
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Daily Motivation
Excerpt of The Daily Motivator
Realistically hopeful
by Ralph Marston
What has happened, has happened. What you think about it, what you feel about it, what you do about it, that’s all up to you.
There may be ample reasons to feel despair. Even so, you can make the choice instead to be hopeful, and realistically so.
True hope is not an empty fantasy. It is a decision you make about how you intend to move forward.
Being realistically hopeful is being ready and willing to support your hope with your persistent efforts, your attitude, your commitment and priorities. Realistic hope is always possible because the situation will change, and your hope can influence the direction of that change.
Hope is much more powerful than a mere wish for things to get better. Hope energizes you to do the work that will make things better.
The world at times can lay great difficulty upon you. Meet it always with the power of real hope, and let that hope push you to transform each challenge into new achievement.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
What has happened, has happened. What you think about it, what you feel about it, what you do about it, that’s all up to you.
There may be ample reasons to feel despair. Even so, you can make the choice instead to be hopeful, and realistically so.
True hope is not an empty fantasy. It is a decision you make about how you intend to move forward.
Being realistically hopeful is being ready and willing to support your hope with your persistent efforts, your attitude, your commitment and priorities. Realistic hope is always possible because the situation will change, and your hope can influence the direction of that change.
Hope is much more powerful than a mere wish for things to get better. Hope energizes you to do the work that will make things better.
The world at times can lay great difficulty upon you. Meet it always with the power of real hope, and let that hope push you to transform each challenge into new achievement.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
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