Thursday, October 25, 2018
Today's Gift
Action for the Day: May I risk new actions as You lead me forward.
A Good Beginning
In this book you read again and again that faith did for us what
we could not do for ourselves. We hope you are convinced now that
your Higher Power can remove whatever self-will has blocked you off from Them.
If you have already made a decision, and an inventory of your
grosser handicaps, you have made a good beginning.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, pp. 70 - 71
Thought to Ponder
Faith is like a muscle, the more we use it, the more it grows.
AA-related 'Alconym'
F A I T H = Facing All, Intuitively Trusting our Higher Power
Continual change
The universal human yearning [is] for something permanent, enduring, without shadow of change. --Willa Cather
The specter of change builds dread in most of us. We fear the effects on our personal lives. We lack faith that the impending change will benefit us. Only time can assure us of that. And it will, just as every change we've survived up to now has done.
Changes are gifts, really. They come as hallmarks to our present attainments. They signify successful growth. How we struggle to understand this, and how quickly we forget it once we have adapted to the change. The struggle is then repeated the next time change visits us.
We long for permanence, believing it guarantees security, not realizing the only real security available to us comes with our trust in our Higher Power and the Universe, from whom all change comes as a blessing on the growth we've attained. If we were to experience total lack of change, we'd find death. Life is challenge, continued change, always endurable and growth-enhancing. We can reflect on what's gone before, and trust that which faces us now.
Change means I am progressing, on course.
From Each Day a New Beginning: Daily Meditations for Women by Karen Casey ©
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
Moving Forward
Time past is gone forever, and we can never go back to it. Even our disease progresses forward. We cannot expect to control it by a return to measures which may have worked for a time in the past. Those methods eventually failed, and trying them again will only bring us to the same point of failure.
The only way to avoid repetitious failure is to move forward creatively as our Higher Power leads us. Each day is a new creation, and each day brings new lessons and opportunities. We build on what is past, but we do not need to repeat it.
Moving forward involves risking what is unknown. The old, familiar rut, depressing as it is, is a known quantity. Moving out of it requires that we have courage and that we trust in One who knows and cares. To move on, we must act. Insights do not produce growth until they are accompanied by specific actions.
Moving Forward
Time past is gone forever, and we can never go back to it. Even our disease progresses forward. We cannot expect to control it by a return to measures which may have worked for a time in the past. Those methods eventually failed, and trying them again will only bring us to the same point of failure.
The only way to avoid repetitious failure is to move forward creatively as our Higher Power leads us. Each day is a new creation, and each day brings new lessons and opportunities. We build on what is past, but we do not need to repeat it.
Moving forward involves risking what is unknown. The old, familiar rut, depressing as it is, is a known quantity. Moving out of it requires that we have courage and that we trust in One who knows and cares. To move on, we must act. Insights do not produce growth until they are accompanied by specific actions.
Action for the Day: May I risk new actions as You lead me forward.
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
In this book you read again and again that faith did for us what
we could not do for ourselves. We hope you are convinced now that
your Higher Power can remove whatever self-will has blocked you off from Them.
If you have already made a decision, and an inventory of your
grosser handicaps, you have made a good beginning.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, pp. 70 - 71
Thought to Ponder
Faith is like a muscle, the more we use it, the more it grows.
AA-related 'Alconym'
F A I T H = Facing All, Intuitively Trusting our Higher Power
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Daily Motivation
Excerpt of The Daily Motivator
by Ralph Marston
You can be certain that, at the end of this day, many things will be different than they were when the day began. For the world is always changing, every day, every moment.
You can fight against the changes, and resent them, and worry about them, and complain and fear them. Or you can see the opportunities in those changes, and find ways to put them to positive use.
If you are fearful of change, you’ll end up spending a lot of time living in fear, because change is ever present. When you find ways to make change your friend and ally, then your time will be well used in the service of your best possibilities.
Changes can often be frightening, but keep in mind that you’ve been successfully dealing with changes your entire life. That’s how you’ve learned, and grown, and moved forward.
Look at each change that has come, and no matter how it might seem at first, see if you can find the opportunity in it, the opportunity to move forward. You’ve already made it through countless changes, you’re well equipped for dealing with change, and as your world continues to change, you can continue to make it even better.
You can be certain that, at the end of this day, many things will be different than they were when the day began. For the world is always changing, every day, every moment.
You can fight against the changes, and resent them, and worry about them, and complain and fear them. Or you can see the opportunities in those changes, and find ways to put them to positive use.
If you are fearful of change, you’ll end up spending a lot of time living in fear, because change is ever present. When you find ways to make change your friend and ally, then your time will be well used in the service of your best possibilities.
Changes can often be frightening, but keep in mind that you’ve been successfully dealing with changes your entire life. That’s how you’ve learned, and grown, and moved forward.
Look at each change that has come, and no matter how it might seem at first, see if you can find the opportunity in it, the opportunity to move forward. You’ve already made it through countless changes, you’re well equipped for dealing with change, and as your world continues to change, you can continue to make it even better.
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