Thursday, February 14, 2019
Today's Gift
Receiving a loving hug from a parent or perhaps a smile from a friend or even a stranger gives us a special feeling inside. We know we are important to others when they show us their love through attention. And we sometimes forget that we matter to others. Family members and friends feel good in the same way when we show them our love. Everyone needs to be loved.
How can we show our love? Must it be through a hug? Doing a favor for someone is loving. Helping around the house or the yard is loving, particularly when we've volunteered our help. Giving an unexpected gift to a friend is a way of showing love. Showing others we care, even when they are angry, is perhaps the nicest of all expressions of love.
A Trivial Reason
They had said that though I did raise a defense, it would one day give way
before some trivial reason for having a drink. Well, just that did happen and
more, for what I had learned of alcoholism did not occur to me at all. I knew
from that moment that I had an alcoholic mind. I saw that will power and
self-knowledge would not help in those strange mental blank spots.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, (More About Alcoholism), p. 42
Thought to Ponder
AA is not something we join; it's a way of life.
AA-related 'Alconym'
T H I N K = Thank Heavens, I Now Know
Take care of you
Self-love is really a foundation for everything, and however you practice or express that is so, so important. Solange Knowles
Valentine's Day
For children, Valentine's Day means candy hearts, silly cards, and excitement in the air.
How different Valentine's Day can be for us as adults. The Love Day can be a symbol that we have not yet gotten love to work for us as we would like.
Or it can be a symbol of something different, something better. We are in recovery now. We have begun the healing process. Our most painful relationships, we have learned, have assisted us on the journey to healing, even if they did little more than point out our own issues or show us what we don't want in our life.
We have started the journey of learning to love ourselves. We have started the process of opening our heart to love, real love that flows from us, to others, and back again. Do something loving for yourself. Do something loving and fun for your friends, for your children, or for anyone you choose.
It is the Love Day. Wherever we are in our healing process, we can have as much fun with it as we choose. Whatever our circumstances, we can be grateful that our heart is opening to love.
I will open myself to the love available to me from people, the Universe, and my Higher Power today. I will allow myself to give and receive the love I want today. I am grateful that my heart is healing, that I am learning to love.
From The Language of Letting Go by Melody Beattie ©
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
Love cures people--both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. --Karl Menninger
Love cures people--both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. --Karl Menninger
Receiving a loving hug from a parent or perhaps a smile from a friend or even a stranger gives us a special feeling inside. We know we are important to others when they show us their love through attention. And we sometimes forget that we matter to others. Family members and friends feel good in the same way when we show them our love. Everyone needs to be loved.
How can we show our love? Must it be through a hug? Doing a favor for someone is loving. Helping around the house or the yard is loving, particularly when we've volunteered our help. Giving an unexpected gift to a friend is a way of showing love. Showing others we care, even when they are angry, is perhaps the nicest of all expressions of love.
Prayer for the Day: I will show someone I care today.
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
A Trivial Reason
They had said that though I did raise a defense, it would one day give way
before some trivial reason for having a drink. Well, just that did happen and
more, for what I had learned of alcoholism did not occur to me at all. I knew
from that moment that I had an alcoholic mind. I saw that will power and
self-knowledge would not help in those strange mental blank spots.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, (More About Alcoholism), p. 42
Thought to Ponder
AA is not something we join; it's a way of life.
AA-related 'Alconym'
T H I N K = Thank Heavens, I Now Know
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Daily Motivation
Excerpt of The Daily Motivator
Take care of you
by Ralph Marston
First, take good care of yourself. When you do, there is no limit to the value you can create for all the other people in your life and your world.
Begin each day by being good to yourself. When you are the best you can be, that’s when you have the most to give.
Find the real joy that lives in each moment, and allow yourself to be filled with it. Your joyful approach to life can make a world of positive difference for everyone around you.
Find and fulfill those things that bring you enjoyment and real satisfaction. It is in those things that you can bring great value to the world.
There’s a reason why it feels so good to feel good. It encourages you to do what you do best.
Be good to you, and you’ll become a more interesting, creative and productive person. Be good to you, and you’ll have what it takes to truly make a difference in the lives of others.
First, take good care of yourself. When you do, there is no limit to the value you can create for all the other people in your life and your world.
Begin each day by being good to yourself. When you are the best you can be, that’s when you have the most to give.
Find the real joy that lives in each moment, and allow yourself to be filled with it. Your joyful approach to life can make a world of positive difference for everyone around you.
Find and fulfill those things that bring you enjoyment and real satisfaction. It is in those things that you can bring great value to the world.
There’s a reason why it feels so good to feel good. It encourages you to do what you do best.
Be good to you, and you’ll become a more interesting, creative and productive person. Be good to you, and you’ll have what it takes to truly make a difference in the lives of others.
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