Tuesday, November 5, 2019
Today's Gift
The future is made of the same stuff as the present. —Simone Weil
The only lessons that matter for our lives at this time will come to us today. Just as what we needed and were ready for yesterday came yesterday, tomorrow insures more of the same. Concerning ourselves with any other moment but the present prevents us from responding when "the teacher appears."
In years gone by, we perhaps hung onto yesterday's problems. We may still struggle to hang onto them. Or perhaps we try to see too far ahead. But we are learning that there is a right time for all growth. A right time for all experiences. And the right time may not fit our timetable. What doesn't come our way today, will come when the time is right. Each day we are granted just what is needed. We need not worry about the future. It will offer us whatever rightly comes next, but it can't do so until we have experienced these 24 hours before us.
There is wonder and joy awaiting me, each day. The growth I experience is just what is needed at this time. I am a student, and the teacher will appear.
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
---Ruth Ann Schabacker
How full life can be! We can untie the ribbons on this gift by keeping our spirits open.
Open to life. Open to how much our Higher Power love us.
Who knows what the gifts the day may bring? Maybe it brings a solution to a problem.
Maybe it brings the smile of a child. Maybe we’ll find a new friend. Whatever gifts the day brings, we must be able to receive them. How do we do this? We keep our spirit open and lively through prayer and meditation. Then we’ll be awake to see the beauty and the wonders life holds for us.
Prayer for the Day: Higher Power, remind me to pray to You often. Remind me to stop and listen to You. Remind me that You love me very much.
Action for the Day: At the end of the day, I’ll take time to list the gifts I’ve been given today. This will be first on my list: I am sober.
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
Divine Help
"As to two of you, whose stories I have heard, there is
no doubt in my mind that you were 100% hopeless, apart from
divine help. Had you offered yourselves as patients at this hospital,
I would not have taken you, if I had been able to avoid it.
People like you are too heartbreaking. Though not a religious person,
I have profound respect for the spiritual approach in such cases
as yours. For most cases, there is virtually no other solution."
- Alcoholics Anonymous, (More About Alcoholism) p. 43
Thought to Ponder
Faith makes the impossible possible.
AA-related 'Alconym'
F A I T H = Found Always In 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
Worthless worry
by Ralph Marston
How many things do you worry about, that don’t really matter at all? Imagine the positive energy boost if you could simply let them go.
Most of the things that annoy you do so only because you have chosen to be annoyed. Think of how life would be if you spent less time annoyed and more time truly living.
When something comes along that troubles you, ask yourself if it really matters. You’ll discover that many things really don’t.
When something pops up to worry you, ask yourself if your worrying will make it better. Chances are, with most things, it won’t.
Most worries and annoyances are completely worthless, and only serve to bring you down. Is that really what you want?
Practice diverting more of your time and energy to positive, useful, productive pursuits. Replace the worry and annoyance about things that don’t matter with real, effective action for the things that do.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
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