Thursday, July 18, 2019
Today's Gift
The great end of life is not knowledge but action —Thomas Huxley
Sometimes we have good ideas about how to make things better. We might know we need to spend more quality time with others. We might know it would be better if mealtime was not so hectic and really became a time for sharing the day's events. Knowing what needs to happen is part of the process of change. But we have to put that knowledge into action.
All our good intentions, no matter what they may be, do not really mean anything until we move into action. A hug is better than a thought of love; a story read together is better than a wonderful vacation that did not get past the planning stage, just as a finished house is something we can live in, while the blueprint is soon forgotten. When we act on our ideas, we put ourselves into the world as a force for change.
What change can I set loose in the world today?
From Today's Gift: Daily Meditations for Families ©
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
Taking the time to be thoughtful about our responses to the situations we encounter offers us the freedom to make choices that are right for us. Impulsive behavior can be a thing of our past, if we so choose. It seldom was the best response for our well being.
Decision-making is morale boosting. It offers us a chance to exercise our personal powers, an exercise that is mandatory for the healthy development of our egos. We need to make careful, thoughtful choices because they will further define our characters. Each action we take clearly indicates the persons we are becoming. When we have consciously and deliberately chosen that action because of its rightness for us, we are fully in command of becoming the persons we choose to be.
Our actions reveal who we are, to others and ourselves. We need never convey an inaccurate picture of ourselves. We need only take the time and risk the courage necessary to behave exactly as we choose. We will know a new freedom when we are in control.
Action for the Day: I will exercise my power to act and feel the fullness of my being.
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
Imagine life without faith! Were nothing left but pure reason,
it wouldn’t be life. But we believed in life—of course we did.
We could not prove life in the sense that you can prove a
straight line is the shortest distance between two points,
yet, there it was.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, "We Agnostics," p. 54
Thought to Ponder
Faith dares the soul to go beyond what the eyes can see.
AA-related 'Alconym'
F A I T H = Facing All, Intuitively Trusting a Higher Power
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Daily Motivation
Excerpt of The Daily Motivator
by Ralph Marston
You have to keep working at life. And that’s a very good thing, because the more work you put into life, the more fulfilling it becomes.
Even if you could get everything perfect in your world, it wouldn’t stay that way. And that’s a very good thing, because you’d soon be bored with all that never-ending perfection.
You’re at your best when you’re making things better. Life is best when you’re able to continue investing yourself in it.
Learn to be thankful that your paint job weathers and peels, that the weeds grow back in your garden. Things like that are life’s way of giving you something to do, of providing you with a way to make a difference.
Every difficulty you encounter helps you avoid being useless. Every challenge you confront gives purpose and strength to your experience.
Each day is your opportunity to make real progress in an imperfect world where things often go wrong. Keep working at life, and keep all of life moving forward.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
You have to keep working at life. And that’s a very good thing, because the more work you put into life, the more fulfilling it becomes.
Even if you could get everything perfect in your world, it wouldn’t stay that way. And that’s a very good thing, because you’d soon be bored with all that never-ending perfection.
You’re at your best when you’re making things better. Life is best when you’re able to continue investing yourself in it.
Learn to be thankful that your paint job weathers and peels, that the weeds grow back in your garden. Things like that are life’s way of giving you something to do, of providing you with a way to make a difference.
Every difficulty you encounter helps you avoid being useless. Every challenge you confront gives purpose and strength to your experience.
Each day is your opportunity to make real progress in an imperfect world where things often go wrong. Keep working at life, and keep all of life moving forward.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
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