Wednesday, December 5, 2018
Today's Gift
From Each Day a New Beginning: Daily Meditations for Women by Karen Casey ©
The old person I shall become will be quite different from the person I am now. Another I is beginning . . . --George Sand
Change is constant. And we are always becoming. Each chance, each feeling, each responsibility we commit ourselves to adds to the richness of our adulthood. We are not yesterday's person, today. Our new awarenesses have brought us beyond them. And we can't go back without knowing, somehow, that they no longer meets the needs of today.
We can look forward to our changes, to the older person we are becoming. They will have the wisdom that we still lack. They will have learned to live and let live. They will have acquired, through years of experiences, a perspective that lends sanity to all situations.
The lessons we are learning today, the pain that overwhelms us now and again, are nurturing the developing person within each of us. If only we could accept the lessons and master them. If only we could trust the gift of change that accompanies the pain.
I am becoming. And with the becoming, comes peace. I can sense it today. I know where I was yesterday.
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
It is a long baptism into the seas of humankind, my child. Better immersion than to live untouched. --Tillie Olsen
We have each had days when we preferred hiding under the covers, avoiding life at all costs. And in times gone by, we did just that, sometimes too frequently. What we didn't always know, and what we still forget on occasion, is that we have a ready and willing partner who will join us in every pursuit.
The more fully we commit ourselves to one another and to all our experience, the closer we will come to the very serenity we long for. Serenity accompanies our increasing understanding of life's many mysteries. It's easy to cheat ourselves out of the prizes any day offers us. Fear fosters inertia, leaving us separate, alone, even more afraid. But we have an appointment with life. And our appointment will bring us to the place of full understanding, the place where we'll be certain, forever after, that all is well. And that life is good.
Action for the Day: Today's appointments are part of the bigger plan for my life. I will face them, enjoy them, and reap their rewards.
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
Amends
Above all, we should try to be absolutely sure that we are not delaying
because we are afraid. For the readiness to take the full consequences
of our past acts, and to take responsibility for the well-being of others
at the same time, is the very spirit of Step Nine.
- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, "Step Nine" p. 87
Thought to Ponder
It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes and to make amends for them.
AA-related 'Alconym'
F E A R = Face Everything And Recover
From: AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net)
Excerpt of The Daily Motivator
The future you
by Ralph Marston
The person you are to become, is always watching the person you are right now. The image you have of yourself tomorrow, depends on the actions you watch yourself take today. The confidence with which you live next month, will be based on the integrity of your actions this week.
You can hide and conceal things from just about anyone, but the person you are to become is always watching. And that person’s opinion of you will play a major role in your life.
Will you be proud tomorrow of what you did today? Will your future self find strength in your present actions and attitudes? Will you learn from your mistakes and from your successes? The you of tomorrow is watching, waiting, hoping and depending upon the you of today.
Live each moment like someone is watching. Because someone is watching, someone who can make you or break you. Live so that the person you become in the future can look back with gratitude and admiration at the person you are right now.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
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