Monday, January 21, 2019
Today's Gift
The pain of leaving those you grow to love is only the prelude to understanding yourself and others. --Shirley MacLaine
Life is a process of letting go, letting go of conditions we can't control, letting go of people--watching them move out of our lives, letting go of times, places, experiences. Leaving behind anyone or anyplace we have loved may sadden us, but is also provides us opportunities for growth we hadn't imagined. These experiences push us beyond our former selves to deeper understandings of ourselves and of others.
So often those experiences that sadden us, that trigger pain, are the best lessons life is able to offer. Experiencing the pain, surviving the pain that wrenches us emotionally, stretches us to new heights. Life is enriched by the pain. Our experiences with all other persons thereafter are deeper. Instead of dreading the ending of a time, the departure of a loved one, we must try to appreciate what we have gained already and know that life is fuller for it.
Today will bring both goodbyes and hellos. I can meet both with gladness.
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
Resentments are the blocks that hold us back from loving others and ourselves. Resentments do not punish the other person; they punish us. They become barriers to feeling good and enjoying life. They prevent us from being in harmony with the world. Resentments are hardened chunks of anger. They loosen up and dissolve with forgiveness and letting go.
Letting go of resentments does not mean we allow the other person to do anything to us that he or she wants. It means we accept what happened in the past, and we set boundaries for the future. We can let go of resentments and still have boundaries.
We try to see the good in the person or the good that ultimately evolved from whatever incident we feel resentful about. We try to see our part.
Then we put the incident to rest.
Praying for those we resent helps. Asking our Higher Power to take our resentments from us helps too.
What better way to begin a New Year than by cleaning the slate of the past, and entering this one free of resentments.
Action for the Day: Today I ask my Higher Power to help me become ready to let go of my resentments. To bring any resentment that is hidden within me, and blocking me, to the surface. To show me what I need to do to take care of my self by letting go of resentments, and then help me do that.
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
Our Solution
The tremendous fact for every one of us is that
we have discovered a common solution.
We have a way out on which we can absolutely agree,
and upon which we can join in brotherly and harmonious action.
This is the great news this book carries to those who suffer from alcoholism.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, "There Is A Solution," p. 17
Thought to Ponder
The solution is simple. The solution is spiritual.
AA-related 'Alconym'
A L C O H O L I C S = A Life Centered On Helping Others Live In Complete Sobriety
From: AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net)
Excerpt of The Daily Motivator
by Ralph Marston
It is difficult to care in a world that doesn’t ever seem to care. Yet it is possible, and ultimately it is your best choice.
You can care deeply, actively, even when no one else steps forward to care. There is much you can give, even when no one else is willing to give.
You can put yourself on the side of real goodness. You can make a difference, and make the world brighter with your commitment to do so.
It is a challenge being committed to excellence when it feels like indolence and incompetence are rampant. Yet it is possible, and it is powerful, and of great value.
Your best response is to do what’s good, what’s right, what’s smart and valuable and effective. In this way you overwhelm the negativity with your own action.
Instead of being distraught about how bad things can be, imagine all you can do to improve life. Then get to work and make it so.
It is difficult to care in a world that doesn’t ever seem to care. Yet it is possible, and ultimately it is your best choice.
You can care deeply, actively, even when no one else steps forward to care. There is much you can give, even when no one else is willing to give.
You can put yourself on the side of real goodness. You can make a difference, and make the world brighter with your commitment to do so.
It is a challenge being committed to excellence when it feels like indolence and incompetence are rampant. Yet it is possible, and it is powerful, and of great value.
Your best response is to do what’s good, what’s right, what’s smart and valuable and effective. In this way you overwhelm the negativity with your own action.
Instead of being distraught about how bad things can be, imagine all you can do to improve life. Then get to work and make it so.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
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