Monday, November 25, 2019
Today's Gift
Awareness is the first step to action. They have to know something is going on to know to do something about it. -Derick Virgil
When we first become aware of a problem, a situation, or a feeling, we may react with anxiety or fear. There is no need to fear awareness. No need.
Awareness is the first step toward positive change and growth. It's the first step toward solving the problem, or getting the need met, the first step toward the future. It's how we focus on the next lesson.
Awareness is how life, the Universe, and our Higher Power get our attention and prepare us for change. The process of becoming changed begins with awareness. Awareness, acceptance, and change - that's the cycle. We can accept the temporary discomfort from awareness because that's how we're moved to a better place. We can accept the temporary discomfort because we can trust the Universe, and ourselves.
Today, I will be grateful for any awareness I encounter. I will display gratitude, peace, and dignity when life gets my attention. I will remember that it's okay to accept the temporary discomfort from awareness because I can trust that it's my Higher Power moving me forward.
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
It's the awareness, the full experience... of how you are stuck, that makes you recover. —Frederick S. Perls
When we become aware of how far off our path we have strayed, when we see how cold and hard we were to someone we love, when we are no longer blind to our blindness - then we are touched by painful feelings. We feel guilty about the harm we caused. We grieve the lost moments and lost opportunities. We may feel angry with ourselves for our stubbornness. But even with our pain, we are worlds away from that blindness.
This new awareness is a spiritual place. It brings us back into contact with our Higher Power and makes us available to the words of wisdom and concern of others. It reminds us that no man can walk this path on his own power. We all must remain open and in contact with the healing relationships around us.
Action for the Day: I pray for awareness today as my doorway to spiritual healing.
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
Willing to Grow
Many of us exclaimed, “What an order! I can’t go through with it."
Do not be discouraged. No one among us has been able to maintain
anything like perfect adherence to these principles. We are not saints.
The point is, that we are willing to grow along spiritual lines.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) p. 60
Thought to Ponder
Spiritual progress isn't what gets us sober, it's what keeps us sober.
AA-related 'Alconym'
S O B E R = Spiritually On Beam; Everything's Right
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Daily Motivation
Excerpt of The Daily Motivator
Awareness
by Ralph Marston
The first step to transcending a particular weakness in your life is to become more aware of it. As your familiarity with the weakness grows, your options for getting beyond it will increase as well.
The more accurate the diagnosis, the more successfully a doctor can treat the disease. The better you understand the problem, the more resources you’ll find to solve it.
Anyone who honestly criticizes you is doing you a favor, even if that’s not what was intended. Be thankful for the criticism, because it will help you see where your efforts can be most effective.
Being positive does not mean ignoring the negative or denying your limitations. Living positively very often involves finding a way to get beyond those limitations that most fervently hold you back.
For when you eliminate the weaknesses, your strengths can truly run free. Become aware of your weaknesses, and in so doing you’ll find powerful new ways to be strong.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
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