Monday, December 30, 2019
Today's Gift
Each of us is guided while we act as guides to one another, throughout the day, throughout our lives. We are interdependent. Everywhere we look, someone is learning from us and we from them. We often know not what we give, when we give it. And we seldom realize the value of what we're receiving at the time we accept it.
Resistance to what another person is offering us may be our natural response. But the passage of time highlights the value of the experience. We can look for the comforters in our lives. They are there offering us strength and hope enough to see us through any difficulty.
We need both the rough times and the soft shoulders of another. They contribute equally to the designs our lives are weaving. The rough times press us to pray, to reach out to others for solace. And our pain gives others the chance to heal our wounds. We are all healers offering strength. And we all need healing.
One of the greatest gifts of my life is giving and receiving strength.
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
Relationships with other people are necessary to escape loneliness; however, relationships do not guarantee freedom from pain. Nurturing a meaningful relationship with another human being takes patience, even when we don't have any. It takes tolerance, even if we don't feel it. It takes selflessness, at those very moments our own ego is crying for attention.
Yet, we need relationships with others; they inspire us. We learn who we are and who we can become through relationships. They precipitate our accomplishments. Our creativity is encouraged by them, and so is our emotional and spiritual development.
We can look around us, attentively. We can feel blessed, even when it's a negative situation. Every situation is capable of inspiring a positive step forward. Every situation is meant for our good.
Action for the Day: There's risk in human relationships, and it's often accompanied by pain. But I am guaranteed growth, and I will find the happiness I seek. I will reach out to someone 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
"Each group has but one primary purpose—to carry
the message to the alcoholic who still suffers."
"SHOEMAKER, stick to thy last!"... better do one thing
supremely well than many badly. That is the central theme
of this Tradition. Around it our Society gathers in unity.
The very life of our Fellowship requires the preservation
of this principle.
- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Tradition Five) p. 150.
Thought to Ponder
Who we are is not dependent upon someone else's opinion.
AA-related 'Alconym'
S T O P = Sobriety Tops Our Priorities
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Daily Motivation
Excerpt of The Daily Motivator
by Ralph Marston
Give a little kindness, and receive friendship in return. Give an extra effort, and receive even more value in return.
Give an honest answer, and receive trust in return. Give a smile, and receive joy in return.
Give with real meaning, and receive fulfillment in return. Give thanks, and receive true abundance in return.
Give your full attention, and receive a positive experience in return. Give your knowledge, and learn something in return.
Give what you treasure most, and receive much more of it in return. Give what you can, and receive the best of who you are.
Give of yourself. And receive a life of richness in return.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
Give a little kindness, and receive friendship in return. Give an extra effort, and receive even more value in return.
Give an honest answer, and receive trust in return. Give a smile, and receive joy in return.
Give with real meaning, and receive fulfillment in return. Give thanks, and receive true abundance in return.
Give your full attention, and receive a positive experience in return. Give your knowledge, and learn something in return.
Give what you treasure most, and receive much more of it in return. Give what you can, and receive the best of who you are.
Give of yourself. And receive a life of richness in return.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
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