Wednesday, February 27, 2019
Today's Gift
We can avoid this stress and tension by putting all responsibility for results in our Higher Power's hands. While it is true that we want to succeed and to be accepted, we can never be sure that our idea of success is the right one. There are times when our strong determination to succeed at all costs makes us overbearing and demanding in our approach. We may be so anxious to appear competent and knowledgeable that we overreach our selves and make stupid blunders.
The Universe can show us how to handle each day's affairs in an orderly, reasonable way. It is not necessary to win every argument or to make every sale. We can sell ourselves more effectively when we go through the day calmly and take a genuine interest in the ideas and concerns of others.
Action for the Day: I will look upon my customers and fellow workers as friends and allies. I don't have to bludgeon every person into accepting my point of view. If I am sincerely trying to follow my Higher Power's will in all my affairs, others will sense my sincerity and will be glad to consider what I have to say.
Spiritual Experience
Most of our experiences are what the psychologist William James
calls the "educational variety" because they develop slowly over a
period of time. Quite often friends of the newcomer are aware of
the difference long before he is himself. He finally realizes that he has
undergone a profound alteration in his reaction to life; that such a change
could hardly have been brought about by himself alone.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Appendix II) p. 567
Thought to Ponder
A spiritual awakening is our greatest gift.
AA-related 'Alconym'
B E S T = Been Enjoying Sobriety Today
Know you can do better
Being alone and feeling vulnerable. Like two separate themes, these two parts of myself unite in my being and sow the seeds of my longing for unconditional love. —Mary Casey
How easily we slip into self-doubt, fearing we're incapable or unlovable, perhaps both. How common for us to look into the faces of our friends and lovers in search of affirmation and love.
Our alienation from ourselves, from one another, from Spirit which exists everywhere causes our discontent. It is our discontent. When souls touch, love is born, love of self and love of the other. Our aloneness exists when we create barriers that keep us separate from our friends, our family. Only we can reach over or around the barriers to offer love, to receive love.
Recovery offers us the tools for loving, but we must dare to pick them up. Listening to others and sharing ourselves begins the process of loving. Risking to offer love before receiving it will free us from the continual search for love in the faces of others.
I won't wait to be loved today. I will love someone else, fully. I won't doubt that I, too, am loved. I will feel it. I will find unconditional love.
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
Walk In Dry Places
Personal Relations
Personal Relations
Selling myself
Thoughtful people tell us that every person has to "sell" themselves in daily work. As adults, we can find that threatening. Uncertainty and the fear of rejection or failure put us under stress.
Thoughtful people tell us that every person has to "sell" themselves in daily work. As adults, we can find that threatening. Uncertainty and the fear of rejection or failure put us under stress.
We can avoid this stress and tension by putting all responsibility for results in our Higher Power's hands. While it is true that we want to succeed and to be accepted, we can never be sure that our idea of success is the right one. There are times when our strong determination to succeed at all costs makes us overbearing and demanding in our approach. We may be so anxious to appear competent and knowledgeable that we overreach our selves and make stupid blunders.
The Universe can show us how to handle each day's affairs in an orderly, reasonable way. It is not necessary to win every argument or to make every sale. We can sell ourselves more effectively when we go through the day calmly and take a genuine interest in the ideas and concerns of others.
Action for the Day: I will look upon my customers and fellow workers as friends and allies. I don't have to bludgeon every person into accepting my point of view. If I am sincerely trying to follow my Higher Power's will in all my affairs, others will sense my sincerity and will be glad to consider what I have to say.
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
Spiritual Experience
Most of our experiences are what the psychologist William James
calls the "educational variety" because they develop slowly over a
period of time. Quite often friends of the newcomer are aware of
the difference long before he is himself. He finally realizes that he has
undergone a profound alteration in his reaction to life; that such a change
could hardly have been brought about by himself alone.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Appendix II) p. 567
Thought to Ponder
A spiritual awakening is our greatest gift.
AA-related 'Alconym'
B E S T = Been Enjoying Sobriety Today
From: AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net)
Excerpt of The Daily Motivator
by Ralph Marston
Know you can do better, and let it fill you with encouragement. Know you can do better, and let it challenge you to get to work.
As effective and productive and purposeful as you’ve been, you can do better now. As mistaken and inattentive and complacent as you’ve been, now you can do better.
Past experience has taught you, frustrated you, inspired you, disappointed you. Now you can gather all that energy, step forward, and do better.
Now you can make one little improvement, and then another, and another. Now you can be driven by your commitment to a more positive and fulfilling future.
Do something good for the person you will be tomorrow, and all the days after that. Recognize your opportunity, recognize your obligation to yourself and others, and do better.
Put this day to great and meaningful use. Put yourself in motion, inspired and encouraged, and do better.
Know you can do better, and let it fill you with encouragement. Know you can do better, and let it challenge you to get to work.
As effective and productive and purposeful as you’ve been, you can do better now. As mistaken and inattentive and complacent as you’ve been, now you can do better.
Past experience has taught you, frustrated you, inspired you, disappointed you. Now you can gather all that energy, step forward, and do better.
Now you can make one little improvement, and then another, and another. Now you can be driven by your commitment to a more positive and fulfilling future.
Do something good for the person you will be tomorrow, and all the days after that. Recognize your opportunity, recognize your obligation to yourself and others, and do better.
Put this day to great and meaningful use. Put yourself in motion, inspired and encouraged, and do better.
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