Thursday, May 30, 2019
Today's Gift
In anxiety-provoking situations, many people feel unable to act. They find themselves at a loss to come up with an effective response, or any response at all. —Stanlee Phelps and Nancy Austin
Feeling unable to act is a humiliation, perhaps an embarrassment, and it is habit-forming. Perhaps our inertia is due to our need to act "correctly" and the accompanying fear that we'll err. Unfortunately, our fear of action reinforces itself. The only way to end the vicious cycle is to act - right or wrong. The surprise in store for us is that no action we take will be truly wrong. We will learn not only from the action itself, but also from its ripples.
The response to life we make through action will gratify us; it will nourish us and will make us dread less the next situation that calls for a response.
Opportunities for action are the stepping-stones to emotional maturity. The more we "act," the more able we are to act. And a new habit is formed.
Taking action, even when I fear it's wrong, is growth producing. Without growth there is no life. Today, I will live!
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
Frontiers are borders, and in our development we meet them again and again. Our first loves as teenagers were emotional and spiritual frontiers. Leaving home after childhood was another. Becoming a parent, perhaps another. Some frontiers are very generous and exciting, while others are frightening, dangerous. Certainly this program has been a frontier for us.
To stay alive spiritually we need to continually go to the borders of our experience - or go back and face an old one from a new angle. We may encounter a new border in learning our Higher Power's will for us in a new way, or in learning a new handicraft or sport, or meeting a life experience we didn't expect. We accumulate these memories within us. Some frontiers from long ago exist within us as if they were just yesterday. What frontiers stand out in our lives as we look back? What spiritual learning came from them? This is how we grow.
Action for the Day: Today I will be grateful for past frontiers that endure within me. They have strengthened and deepened my adulthood.
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
We ought to sit down with the family and frankly analyze the past as we
now see it, being very careful not to criticize them. Their defects may be
glaring, but the chances are that our own actions are partly responsible.
So we clean house with the family, asking each morning in meditation
that our Creator show us the way of patience, tolerance, kindliness and love.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Into Action) p. 83
Thought to Ponder
The Three "C's" -- Concern, Compassion, Consideration.
AA-related 'Alconym'
P A U S E = Patience And Understanding Succeed Every time
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Daily Motivation
Excerpt of The Daily Motivator
by Ralph Marston
Stop making up stories about why you can’t. Start taking the initiative and do what you can.
You’re capable of so many great things if you’ll just do them. Let authentic purpose push you into action, now.
Conditions are not perfect, you’re burdened with challenges and limitations. Have the courage, the vision, to see it all as the great opportunity it is.
Life is not fair, some people seek to deceive you, and disappointments abound. But that doesn’t mean you have to resign yourself to being a victim.
Indeed, if everything were already perfect, there would be no value, no joy, no fulfillment in working to make the world better. As it is, life’s present shortcomings put you in an ideal position to create a splendid future.
Feel the weight of positive possibility as it calls to you, inspires you, and encourages you. Answer the call, and work to create all the great results you’re capable of producing.
Stop making up stories about why you can’t. Start taking the initiative and do what you can.
You’re capable of so many great things if you’ll just do them. Let authentic purpose push you into action, now.
Conditions are not perfect, you’re burdened with challenges and limitations. Have the courage, the vision, to see it all as the great opportunity it is.
Life is not fair, some people seek to deceive you, and disappointments abound. But that doesn’t mean you have to resign yourself to being a victim.
Indeed, if everything were already perfect, there would be no value, no joy, no fulfillment in working to make the world better. As it is, life’s present shortcomings put you in an ideal position to create a splendid future.
Feel the weight of positive possibility as it calls to you, inspires you, and encourages you. Answer the call, and work to create all the great results you’re capable of producing.
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