Wednesday, June 19, 2019
Today's Gift
When a person looks at their life and at the lives of others, it is clear that pain is part of life. We cannot escape this tragic truth; our growth and our wholeness must include it because our recovery stresses honesty. In our old way of living, we may have been bitter. Many of us felt sorry for ourselves. Some of us cursed our Higher Power and wasted time in our self-centeredness, thinking life was especially unfair to us. Life is not fair; it just is. It is left to us to choose how we will respond.
People's responses to life inspire us. We not only acknowledge the pain, but we see the heroic lives of others around us. They met their limitations and went forward with a willing spirit and faith. Today we can be grateful for the progress we have made in overcoming our suffering. We have friends who give us the joy of human contact. We have choices and possibilities where we never saw them before. We have a growing self-respect as people.
A Good Beginning
In this book you read again and again that faith did for us what
we could not do for ourselves. We hope you are convinced now that
God can remove whatever self-will has blocked you off from Him.
If you have already made a decision, and an inventory of your
grosser handicaps, you have made a good beginning.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works,) pp. 70 - 71
Thought to Ponder
If I have the courage to begin, I have the courage to succeed.
AA-related 'Alconym'
FAITH = Finding Answers In The Heart
Simple, magnificent miracle
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. --Paulo Coelho
Making Life Easier
Life doesn't have to be hard.
Yes, there are times we need to endure, struggle through, and rely on our survival skills. But we don't have to make life, growth, change, or our day-to-day affairs that hard all the time.
Having life be that hard is a remnant of our martyrdom, a leftover from old ways of thinking, feeling, and believing. We are worthy, even when life isn't that hard. Our value and worth are not determined by how hard we struggle.
If we're making it that hard, we may be making it harder than it needs to be, said one person. Learn to let things happen easily and naturally. Learn to let events, and our participation in them, fall into place. It can be easy now. Easier than it has been. We can go with the flow, take the world off our shoulders, and let our Higher Power ease us into where we need to be.
Today, I will stop struggling so hard. I will let go of my belief that life has to be hard. I will replace it with a belief that I can walk this journey in ease and peace. And sometimes, it can actually be fun.
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
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. --Helen Keller
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. --Helen Keller
When a person looks at their life and at the lives of others, it is clear that pain is part of life. We cannot escape this tragic truth; our growth and our wholeness must include it because our recovery stresses honesty. In our old way of living, we may have been bitter. Many of us felt sorry for ourselves. Some of us cursed our Higher Power and wasted time in our self-centeredness, thinking life was especially unfair to us. Life is not fair; it just is. It is left to us to choose how we will respond.
People's responses to life inspire us. We not only acknowledge the pain, but we see the heroic lives of others around us. They met their limitations and went forward with a willing spirit and faith. Today we can be grateful for the progress we have made in overcoming our suffering. We have friends who give us the joy of human contact. We have choices and possibilities where we never saw them before. We have a growing self-respect as people.
Today's Action: I accept the reality of life, and I will respond with faith in the choices I make 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 Good Beginning
In this book you read again and again that faith did for us what
we could not do for ourselves. We hope you are convinced now that
God can remove whatever self-will has blocked you off from Him.
If you have already made a decision, and an inventory of your
grosser handicaps, you have made a good beginning.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works,) pp. 70 - 71
Thought to Ponder
If I have the courage to begin, I have the courage to succeed.
AA-related 'Alconym'
FAITH = Finding Answers In The Heart
From: AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net)
Excerpt of The Daily Motivator
Simple, magnificent miracle
by Ralph Marston
If you’re not happy, it’s because you’ve convinced yourself not to be. If you’re not overwhelmingly joyful at the prospect of living this very moment, your thoughts of negativity are covering up that natural joy.
Your existence is real, it is now, and it is amazing. Your life is inherently fulfilling, and a source of limitless wonder and joy.
That joy is yours simply by allowing it. That fulfillment is yours simply by living it as it unfolds.
You don’t need to first accumulate a lot of possessions, relationships, experiences or power. All you have to do is to quit fighting and to quit denying the beautiful, unique spirit that is alive in you.
Let go of all thoughts to the contrary, and experience how truly beautiful your life already is. Delight in the simple, magnificent miracle of your existence.
Feel the joy that is always there, ready to flow out from you in limitless measure. Let go of the conditions and limits you’ve placed on happiness, and let that happiness easily and naturally fill your world.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
If you’re not happy, it’s because you’ve convinced yourself not to be. If you’re not overwhelmingly joyful at the prospect of living this very moment, your thoughts of negativity are covering up that natural joy.
Your existence is real, it is now, and it is amazing. Your life is inherently fulfilling, and a source of limitless wonder and joy.
That joy is yours simply by allowing it. That fulfillment is yours simply by living it as it unfolds.
You don’t need to first accumulate a lot of possessions, relationships, experiences or power. All you have to do is to quit fighting and to quit denying the beautiful, unique spirit that is alive in you.
Let go of all thoughts to the contrary, and experience how truly beautiful your life already is. Delight in the simple, magnificent miracle of your existence.
Feel the joy that is always there, ready to flow out from you in limitless measure. Let go of the conditions and limits you’ve placed on happiness, and let that happiness easily and naturally fill your world.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
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