Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Today's Gift
How can we ever do that which seems impossible? Taking a class, quitting a job, leaving a destructive relationship behind, asking for help; none of these can we do alone or with ease. All of these we can handle when we rely on the help offered by the program, the help of one another, the help promised by our higher power. Tackling with our Higher Power's help that which seems impossible, reduces it to manageable size. It also deflates the power our fears have given it.
Dependence
They clamor for this or that, claiming they cannot master alcohol until their material needs
are cared for. Nonsense. Some of us have taken very hard knocks to learn this truth:
Job or no job—spouse or no spouse—we simply do not stop drinking so long as we place
dependence upon other people ahead of dependence on ourselves and our Higher Power.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Working With Others) p. 98
Thought to Ponder
In AA we don't carry the alcoholic; we carry the message.
AA-related 'Alconym'PACE = Positive Attitudes Change Everything
Active role
You have a lot more power than you are giving yourself credit for. Please embrace it. ― Queen Tourmaline
We are powerless over other people's expectations of us. We cannot control what others want, what they expect, or what they want us to do and be.
We can control how we respond to other people's expectations.
During the course of any day, people may make demands on our time, talents, energy, money, and emotions. We do not have to say yes to every request. We do not have to feel guilty if we say no. And we do not have to allow the barrage of demands to control the course of our life.
We do not have to spend our life reacting to others and to the course they would prefer we took with our life.
We can set boundaries, firm limits on how far we shall go with others. We can trust and listen to ourselves. We can set goals and direction for our life. We can place value on ourselves.
We can own our power with people.
Buy some time. Think about what you want. Consider how responding to another's needs will affect the course of your life. We live or own life by not letting other people, their expectations, and their demands control the course of our life. We can let them have their demands and expectations; we can allow them to have their feelings. We can own our power to choose the path that is right for us.
Today, Higher Power, help me own my power by detaching and peacefully choosing the course of action that is right for me. Help me know I can detach from the expectations and wants of others. Help me stop pleasing other people and start pleasing myself.
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
You must do the thing you think you cannot do. --Eleanor Roosevelt
You must do the thing you think you cannot do. --Eleanor Roosevelt
How can we ever do that which seems impossible? Taking a class, quitting a job, leaving a destructive relationship behind, asking for help; none of these can we do alone or with ease. All of these we can handle when we rely on the help offered by the program, the help of one another, the help promised by our higher power. Tackling with our Higher Power's help that which seems impossible, reduces it to manageable size. It also deflates the power our fears have given it.
That which we fear grows in proportion to our obsession with it. The more we fear a thing, the bigger it becomes, which in turn increases our fear. How lucky we are that our Higher Power awaits our call for the strength, the companionship that is guaranteed us! We are in partnership, all the way, every day, if we'd only recognize it. We can move toward and through anything. And the added benefit is that we come to trust our partnership. We soon know that all situations can be met. All experiences can be survived. Avoidance is no longer our technique for survival.
Action for the Day: A deep breath invites the inner strength to move through me. I will feel the exhilaration of my Higher Power's power. And I will know the excitement of growth and peace.
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
Dependence
They clamor for this or that, claiming they cannot master alcohol until their material needs
are cared for. Nonsense. Some of us have taken very hard knocks to learn this truth:
Job or no job—spouse or no spouse—we simply do not stop drinking so long as we place
dependence upon other people ahead of dependence on ourselves and our Higher Power.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Working With Others) p. 98
Thought to Ponder
In AA we don't carry the alcoholic; we carry the message.
AA-related 'Alconym'PACE = Positive Attitudes Change Everything
From: AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net)
Excerpt of The Daily Motivator
Active role
by Ralph Marston
Your life has great value. To know that value, to experience it, you must put it to use.
You have brilliant thoughts, powerful abilities, useful skills. Put them into action, and live up to the immense potential that is within you.
You’re able to recognize opportunities for making a difference. Seize those opportunities, act on them, faithful to your highest values and best intentions.
Life is made better in the active and authentic living of it. There is much good you can do, and it’s always in your best interest to do it.
Say yes to the opportunities that arrive with each new moment. Take an active role, always thankful for being able to do so.
Give your unconditional best to life, every chance you have. The more you give, the better life gets.
Your life has great value. To know that value, to experience it, you must put it to use.
You have brilliant thoughts, powerful abilities, useful skills. Put them into action, and live up to the immense potential that is within you.
You’re able to recognize opportunities for making a difference. Seize those opportunities, act on them, faithful to your highest values and best intentions.
Life is made better in the active and authentic living of it. There is much good you can do, and it’s always in your best interest to do it.
Say yes to the opportunities that arrive with each new moment. Take an active role, always thankful for being able to do so.
Give your unconditional best to life, every chance you have. The more you give, the better life gets.
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