Monday, December 2, 2019
Today's Gift
The old person I shall become will be quite different from the person I am now. Another I is beginning . . . —George Sand
Change is constant. And we are always becoming. Each chance, each feeling, and each responsibility we commit ourselves to adds to the richness of our personhood. We are not yesterday's person, today. Our new awarenesses have brought us beyond them. And we can't go back without knowing, somehow, that she no longer meets the needs of today.
We can look forward to our changes, to the older person we are becoming. They will have the wisdom that we still lack. They will have learned to live and let live. They will have acquired, through years of experiences, a perspective that lends sanity to all situations.
The lessons we are learning today, the pain that overwhelms us now and again, are nurturing the developing woman within each of us. If only we could accept the lessons and master them. If only we could trust the gift of change that accompanies the pain.
I am becoming. And with the becoming, comes peace. I can sense it today. I know where I was yesterday.
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
Just as when we were children and grew out of favorite toys and clothes, we sometimes grow out of things as adults—people, jobs, and homes. This can be confusing. We may wonder why someone or something that was so special and important to us last year doesn’t fit the same way in our life today. We may wonder why our feelings have changed.
When we were children, we may have tried to fit an outgrown article of clothing on to our body. Now, as adults, we may go through a time of trying to force fit attitudes that we have outgrown. We may need to do this to give ourselves time to realize the truth. What worked last year, what was so important and special to us in times past, doesn’t work anymore because we’ve changed. We’ve grown.
We can accept this as a valid and important part of recovery. We can let ourselves go through experimentation and grief as we struggle to make something fit, trying to figure out if indeed it no longer fits, and why. We can explore our feelings and thoughts around what has happened.
Then, we can put last year’s toys away and make room for the new.
Action for the Day: Today, I will let last year’s toys be what they were: last year’s toys. I will remember them with fondness for the part they played in my life. Then, I will put them away and make room for the new.
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
Putting out of our minds the wrongs others had done,
we resolutely looked for our own mistakes. Where had
we been selfish, dishonest, self-seeking and frightened?
Though a situation had not been entirely our fault, we tried
to disregard the other person involved entirely. Where were
we to blame? The inventory was ours, not the other person’s.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) p. 67
Thought to Ponder
Bless them, Change me.
AA-related 'Alconym'
A A = Accountable Actions
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Daily Motivation
Excerpt of The Daily Motivator
by Ralph Marston
What you’ve worked toward your whole life, you’ve now attained. Certainly it’s not exactly the way you imagined, but that just makes it even better.
Your most authentic priorities have brought you to this moment, to this situation. You’ve successfully created a unique and valuable set of experiences.
Perhaps you’re thrilled about how it has gone and what you’ve done. Or maybe you’re disappointed about some of it, or much of it.
Either way, now is your time to put it all to a newer, higher, more enlightened use. Here you are, with the wisdom and experience to live more richly than ever.
Consider all the opportunities you’ve had, and smile to yourself. Because no matter how they all turned out, now you are greeted with an even better opportunity.
Now is your chance to move forward, with understanding, with purpose, with love. Now the adventure begins, and here you are, ready to give it everything you have.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
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