Wednesday, November 14, 2018
Today's Gift
...we live several lives in one lifetime.
Waking up from a terrifying dream, we first sigh with deep relief, "Thank God it was just a dream." After we have made a big mistake in real life we long for the chance to undo it. We do not get to undo those moments, but life is still full of second chances . . . and third and fourth chances. The big question is. Do we learn from our experiences?
In some ways, we live several lives in one lifetime and we have several phases in one relationship. Today is a new day, and it presents all the possibilities of a new beginning. We have learned from the past. As painful and difficult as our experiences were, we can feel stronger today because we have learned from them. Injustice and fateful accidents can befall anyone. Yet many difficult times never need to be repeated. Today we can be grateful for another day with all the new opportunities it brings.
Name one way you are different today because of what you have learned from your experience.
From the book The More We Find in Each Other by Merle Fossum and Mavis Fossum. ©
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
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. --Kathleen Casey Theisen
How awesome is our power, personally, to choose our attitudes and our responses to any situation, to every situation. We will feel only how we choose to feel, no matter the circumstance. Happiness is as free an option as sorrow.
Perceiving our challenges as opportunities for positive growth rather than stumbling blocks in our path to success is a choice readily available. What is inevitable--a matter over which we have no choice--is that difficult times, painful experiences will visit us. We can, however, greet them like welcome guests, celebrating their blessings on us and the personal growth they inspire.
No circumstance demands suffering. Every circumstance has a silver lining. In one instance you may choose to feel self-pity; in the next, gladness.
We do not always feel confident about our choices, even when we accept the responsibility for making them. How lucky for us that the program offers a solution! Prayer and meditation, guidance from our higher power, can help us make the right choice every time.
Action for the Day: I will relish my freedom to choose, to feel, to act. I and only I can take it away.
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
Prayer
Prayer, as commonly understood, is a petition to our Higher Power. Having opened
our channel as best we can, we try to ask for those right things of which
we and others are in the greatest need. And we think that the whole
range of our needs is well defined by that part of Step Eleven which says:
". . . knowledge of Their will for us and the power to carry that out."
A request for this fits in any part of our day.
- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 102
Thought to Ponder
The Three "P's" -- Pause, Pray, Proceed.
AA-related 'Alconym'
P A U S E = Pay Attention, Use Step Eleven
From: AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net)
Excerpt of The Daily Motivator
Solid recovery
by Ralph Marston
Each setback provides an opportunity to recover. And each time you recover, you grow stronger.
The route to your goal is not a straight line. There will be many times along the way when you find yourself off course.
When that happens, it can seem like your destination is unreachable. Doubt, fear and apathy will take hold if you let them.
The key is not to let them. For as hopeless as the situation may feel, there are actions you can take that will enable you to quickly get back on track.
Much of the substance of achievement is in becoming skilled at making a quick and solid recovery. Each setback gives you the chance to practice and strengthen and refine that valuable skill.
Know that whatever has slowed you down can provide you with a way to move more effectively forward. Quickly get back up, and feel the new strength you’ve gained.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
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