Friday, June 14, 2019
Today's Gift
The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt. —Max Lerner
When we consider all of the troubles and crises in our lives and all of the scrapes we've gotten into, we might feel overwhelmed. With what we have gone through, it seems miraculous for many of us to be here today. When we stop feeling sorry for ourselves and when we stop complaining about the unfairness of it all, we may get a new insight: "I have survived!"
We see the strength and persistence, which brought us through the toughest times we have known. Even when some of us did not know it, we were being carried along by our Higher Power. We can draw strength from that knowledge. We can remind ourselves today that, knowing what we have lived through with the help of our Higher Power, we can deal with anything to come.
I am grateful to my Higher Power for help in surviving the hard times in life.
From Touchstones: A Book of Daily Meditations for Men ©
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
Today flows from yesterday, the day before, the day before that. Tomorrow repeats the pattern. What we are given on any one day will have its beginning in the past and its finale in the future. No incident is isolated entirely; no issue is self-contained.
Maturity is being able to let go of outgrown attitudes, stifling opinions, no matter how good and right they were at one time. Our egos often get too attached to some of our opinions, and new ideas can't filter in. Some will try to get our attention today. We are ready for new growth. The choice not to hamper it is ours to make.
The opinions we held certain yesterday may not be adequate to the problems of today. They need not be. They served us well. They are not for naught.
Action for the Day: Today's issues need today's fresh responses. I will be unafraid. Today flows from yesterday, the day before, and the day before that. Tomorrow follows suit.
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
Reason
Hence, we saw that reason isn’t everything. Neither is reason,
as most of us use it, entirely dependable, though it emanate
from our best minds. What about people who proved that man
could never fly? Yet we had been seeing another kind of flight,
a spiritual liberation from this world, people who rose above their
problems. They said Universe made these things possible, and we
only smiled. We had seen spiritual release, but liked to tell
ourselves it wasn’t true
- Alcoholics Anonymous, (We Agnostics,) pp. 54 - 55
Thought to Ponder
Spirituality is not based on logic, it is faith-driven.
AA-related 'Alconym'
F A I T H = Fear And Insecurity? Trust your Higher Power!
From: AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) http://www.aa-alive.net/index.html
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Daily Motivation
Excerpt of The Daily Motivator
by Ralph Marston
Don’t let failure get you down. Don’t let success go to your head.
Learn from what happened, be thankful for the experience. And just keep going.
Listen politely to the criticism, consider it carefully, and just keep going. Graciously acknowledge the praise, then let it go, and just keep going.
Find pleasure in the good times, gain strength during the hard times. And just keep going.
When you’ve done what you set out to do, select a new goal, and just keep going. When you have trouble making any progress at all, remember the reason why, and just keep going.
You can succeed, you can prevail, no matter what does or does not happen. Just keep going.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
Don’t let failure get you down. Don’t let success go to your head.
Learn from what happened, be thankful for the experience. And just keep going.
Listen politely to the criticism, consider it carefully, and just keep going. Graciously acknowledge the praise, then let it go, and just keep going.
Find pleasure in the good times, gain strength during the hard times. And just keep going.
When you’ve done what you set out to do, select a new goal, and just keep going. When you have trouble making any progress at all, remember the reason why, and just keep going.
You can succeed, you can prevail, no matter what does or does not happen. Just keep going.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
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