Wednesday, October 9, 2019
Today's Gift
Individual Strength
This lack of anchorage to any permanent values, this blindness
to the true purpose of our lives, produced another bad result.
For just so long as we were convinced that we could live
exclusively by our own individual strength and intelligence,
for just that long was a working faith in a Higher Power impossible.
This was true even when we believed that a Higher Power existed.
- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Seven) p. 77
Thought to Ponder
One of the many differences between me and my Higher Power:
My Higher Power doesn't want to be me.
AA-related 'Alconym'
E G O = Edging God Out
Surprises
by Ralph Marston
You can influence the future but you cannot control it. Keep that distinction in mind.
If everything were to happen according to plan, life would be terribly monotonous. Much of what you treasure in life, you didn’t know about in advance.
People, activities, knowledge, concepts will surprise you, and that’s a good thing. Life is open-ended, no matter how diligently you prepare for it.
Accept that open-endedness. Be okay with not knowing, with being surprised every now and then.
True, some of the surprises won’t be pleasant. Yet all of them give you the chance to add some new aspect to the richness of life.
Do your best to create a good future, but don’t reject life if it’s not precisely the way you imagined it. Welcome the surprises, and take each one as an opportunity to feel more fully alive.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
For to be whole is to have interests and duties, raying out in all directions from the central mother-core, like spokes from the hub of a wheel. ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh
It is sometimes easy to get overwhelmed by our duties, forgetting that our interests fit the scheme of our lives. They are inspired by our lives and flow from them. Our interests round us out; they beckon us to become our better selves.
Our duties have their places as well. In our careers, with our families and friends, we have responsibilities. People need to be able to count on us for our part in completing their particular scheme for life.
Finding the right balance between our duties and our interests takes daily attention. It is perhaps our greatest struggle. Feeling duty-bound is common; putting a low value on our interests is a familiar trick we play on ourselves.
We need reminding that our interests will cull out our better, inner selves. We must stretch to become all we are meant to be.
Each day I need to pay heed to interests as well as duties. I will let no day go by without heeding an interest.
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
We shall describe conditions of the soul that words can only hint at. ~Huston Smith
As we live the spiritual life, we find words and logic are only capable of pointing in the direction of some truths. Words do not contain the entire truth our experience may be teaching us. This is like the difference between hearing about fishing versus actually being on the water, smelling the misty air, and feeling the fish tug on our line.
Spiritual development is a form of education. We are developing the part of us that learns by experience, that has a feeling without exactly knowing why, that understands stories better than statistics. Gradually, we accept more experiences in our lives as mysteries, as not fitting into any specific categories. Many experiences will have more meaning than cold facts could ever express. As this side of us develops, we don't discard reason and judgment; we become deeper human beings.
Action for the Day: Today, I will give my intuition more freedom. That will help my spiritual self grow.
We shall describe conditions of the soul that words can only hint at. ~Huston Smith
As we live the spiritual life, we find words and logic are only capable of pointing in the direction of some truths. Words do not contain the entire truth our experience may be teaching us. This is like the difference between hearing about fishing versus actually being on the water, smelling the misty air, and feeling the fish tug on our line.
Spiritual development is a form of education. We are developing the part of us that learns by experience, that has a feeling without exactly knowing why, that understands stories better than statistics. Gradually, we accept more experiences in our lives as mysteries, as not fitting into any specific categories. Many experiences will have more meaning than cold facts could ever express. As this side of us develops, we don't discard reason and judgment; we become deeper human beings.
Action for the Day: Today, I will give my intuition more freedom. That will help my spiritual self grow.
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
Individual Strength
This lack of anchorage to any permanent values, this blindness
to the true purpose of our lives, produced another bad result.
For just so long as we were convinced that we could live
exclusively by our own individual strength and intelligence,
for just that long was a working faith in a Higher Power impossible.
This was true even when we believed that a Higher Power existed.
- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Seven) p. 77
Thought to Ponder
One of the many differences between me and my Higher Power:
My Higher Power doesn't want to be me.
AA-related 'Alconym'
E G O = Edging God Out
From: AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net)
Excerpt of The Daily Motivator
Surprises
by Ralph Marston
You can influence the future but you cannot control it. Keep that distinction in mind.
If everything were to happen according to plan, life would be terribly monotonous. Much of what you treasure in life, you didn’t know about in advance.
People, activities, knowledge, concepts will surprise you, and that’s a good thing. Life is open-ended, no matter how diligently you prepare for it.
Accept that open-endedness. Be okay with not knowing, with being surprised every now and then.
True, some of the surprises won’t be pleasant. Yet all of them give you the chance to add some new aspect to the richness of life.
Do your best to create a good future, but don’t reject life if it’s not precisely the way you imagined it. Welcome the surprises, and take each one as an opportunity to feel more fully alive.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
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