Wednesday, January 2, 2019
Today's Gift
It's human to make mistakes and to feel incomplete. Perhaps if we were all smooth plastic printouts we could expect perfection of ourselves. Each person is actually a process. We are not things, but events -- happenings--and the events are still unfolding. These are our creative spiritual adventures.
We have somehow learned that openness to criticism is dangerous. Perhaps we thought someone would not like us if we were wrong, or that we would get hurt or belittled. When we live with a relationship to our Higher Power, we can stand up for ourselves. A person has a right to make some mistakes! We grow more if we allow ourselves the leeway of
simply being in process.
Action for the Day: I will not ask to have the power of perfection. I will only ask that I not be alone in the process of living my life.
Emotional Stability
When we developed still more, we discovered the best
possible source of emotional stability to be our Higher Power itself.
We found that dependence upon Their perfect justice,
forgiveness, and love was healthy, and that it would
work where nothing else would.
- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, "Step Twelve" p. 116
Thought to Ponder
The will of our Higher Power will never take us where the grace of our Higher Power will not protect us.
AA-related 'Alconym'
F R O G = Fully Rely On God (as we understand them)
Think and do
I believe that true identify is found . . . in creative activity springing from within. It is found, paradoxically, when one loses oneself. One can best re-find their self by losing their self in some kind of creative activity of their own. —Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Creative activity might mean photography, sports, creating music, cooking, painting, writing. Creative activity immerses us fully in the here and now, and at the same time it frees us. We become one with the activity and are nourished by it. We grow as the activity grows. We learn who we are in the very process of not thinking about who we are.
Spirituality and creativity are akin. There is an exhilaration rooted deep within us that is a lifeline to the Universe. Creative activity releases the exhilaration, and the energy goes through us and out to others. We find ourselves and our higher power through the loss of our self-conscious selves while creating - a picture, a sentence, a special meal.
Creativity is a given. It is another dimension of the spiritual presence guiding us all. I'll get out of its way today.
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
When you can't stand criticism you learn to be a perfectionist. --Anonymous
When you can't stand criticism you learn to be a perfectionist. --Anonymous
It's human to make mistakes and to feel incomplete. Perhaps if we were all smooth plastic printouts we could expect perfection of ourselves. Each person is actually a process. We are not things, but events -- happenings--and the events are still unfolding. These are our creative spiritual adventures.
We have somehow learned that openness to criticism is dangerous. Perhaps we thought someone would not like us if we were wrong, or that we would get hurt or belittled. When we live with a relationship to our Higher Power, we can stand up for ourselves. A person has a right to make some mistakes! We grow more if we allow ourselves the leeway of
simply being in process.
Action for the Day: I will not ask to have the power of perfection. I will only ask that I not be alone in the process of living my 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
Emotional Stability
When we developed still more, we discovered the best
possible source of emotional stability to be our Higher Power itself.
We found that dependence upon Their perfect justice,
forgiveness, and love was healthy, and that it would
work where nothing else would.
- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, "Step Twelve" p. 116
Thought to Ponder
The will of our Higher Power will never take us where the grace of our Higher Power will not protect us.
AA-related 'Alconym'
F R O G = Fully Rely On God (as we understand them)
From: AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net)
Excerpt of The Daily Motivator
Think and do
by Ralph Marston
Put plenty of good thought into what you do. But be careful not to let the thinking crowd out the doing.
Your thoughts make your actions much more effective. However, your thoughts cannot replace your actions.
You cannot exclusively think yourself all the way to the goal, no matter how brilliant you are. Achievement happens when thought and action are dancing together, synchronized, contributing to each other.
You cannot simply think yourself out of a problem. At many points along the way, you must commit your thoughts to action.
If you’re not sure what to do, think about it for a while, but not too long. Then, even with an incomplete, imperfect plan, begin to take action.
Let your thoughts guide your actions, and let your actions inform and clarify your thoughts. Think and do, think again and do more, all the way to the results you desire.
Put plenty of good thought into what you do. But be careful not to let the thinking crowd out the doing.
Your thoughts make your actions much more effective. However, your thoughts cannot replace your actions.
You cannot exclusively think yourself all the way to the goal, no matter how brilliant you are. Achievement happens when thought and action are dancing together, synchronized, contributing to each other.
You cannot simply think yourself out of a problem. At many points along the way, you must commit your thoughts to action.
If you’re not sure what to do, think about it for a while, but not too long. Then, even with an incomplete, imperfect plan, begin to take action.
Let your thoughts guide your actions, and let your actions inform and clarify your thoughts. Think and do, think again and do more, all the way to the results you desire.
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