Thursday, October 17, 2019
Today's Gift
Pride, we are told, my children, "goeth before a fall" and oh, the pride was there, and so the fall was not far away.—Wilhelmina Kemp Johnstone
Requesting help. Admitting we are wrong. Owning our mistake in either a big or small matter. Asking for another chance or someone's love. All very difficult to do, and yet necessary if we are to grow. The difficulty is our pride, the big ego. We think, "We need to always be right. If we're wrong, then others may think less of us, look down on us, and question our worth." Perfectionism versus worthlessness.
If we are not perfect (and of course we never are), then we must be worthless. In between these two points on the scale is "being human." Our emotional growth, as women, is equal to how readily we accept our humanness, how able we are to be wrong. With humility comes a softness that smoothes our every experience, our every relationship. Pride makes us hard, keeps us hard, keeps others away, and sets us up for the fall.
I will let myself be human today. It will soften my vision of life.
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
I never suspected that I would have to learn how to live - that there were specific disciplines and ways of seeing the world I had to master before I could awaken to a simple happy, uncomplicated life. --Dan Millman
Wisdom begins in seeing how much we do not know. Sometimes it's a painful blow to our egos to face what we still have to learn. Many of us have believed we know how to live. Yet, when we look at our lives, we see something has been missing. When we continue to have great stress, when we haven't made progress in simplifying our lives, when our lives seem full of crises - perhaps then it is time to open ourselves to some new learning.
We can talk to sponsors and get ideas from group members. Perhaps they have noticed our blind spots and will tell us if asked. Expressing our problems in specific ways may point us to new learning. Our program teaches us twelve specific disciplines for our growth. We need to return to them again and again. We can always ask ourselves, "What Step am I working on at this time?" We may need to learn new ways to work on a specific Step.
Action for the day: I will turn to my fellow group members and focus on one Step for my growth 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
New Lessons
They will also report that out of every season of grief or suffering,
when the hand of the Universe seemed heavy or even unjust, new lessons
for living were learned, new resources of courage were uncovered,
and that finally, inescapably, the conviction came that the Universe does
"move in a mysterious way Their wonder to perform."
- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Eleven) p. 105
Thought to Ponder
Faith is like a muscle, the more we use it, the more it grows.
AA-related 'Alconym'
F A I T H = Facing All, Intuitively Trusting our 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
Life delivers another remarkable day, and you greet it with purpose, with passion, with ability. Morning light excites your soul, challenging you to transform its golden promise into lasting value.
Gaze in gratitude and amazement at all you have the good fortune to behold. And as the light brightens, as the possibilities pop more sharply into focus, you’re already at work.
The day progresses, bringing noise, confusion, turmoil, drama, all the usual disruptions, and a few unexpected ones. Yet through it all you keep going, focused, purposeful, thankful, and effective.
You’re living the experience that’s the finest experience anyone can possibly know. You’re making a difference, enabling life to be the best it can be.
You’re living true to your highest possibilities. You’re advancing steadfastly through life and leaving good things in your wake.
Whatever the next hour, or week, or year may bring, you’re sure to make the most of it. Because every remarkable day you choose to live fully, and to live very well.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
Life delivers another remarkable day, and you greet it with purpose, with passion, with ability. Morning light excites your soul, challenging you to transform its golden promise into lasting value.
Gaze in gratitude and amazement at all you have the good fortune to behold. And as the light brightens, as the possibilities pop more sharply into focus, you’re already at work.
The day progresses, bringing noise, confusion, turmoil, drama, all the usual disruptions, and a few unexpected ones. Yet through it all you keep going, focused, purposeful, thankful, and effective.
You’re living the experience that’s the finest experience anyone can possibly know. You’re making a difference, enabling life to be the best it can be.
You’re living true to your highest possibilities. You’re advancing steadfastly through life and leaving good things in your wake.
Whatever the next hour, or week, or year may bring, you’re sure to make the most of it. Because every remarkable day you choose to live fully, and to live very well.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
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