Wednesday, January 15, 2020
Today's Gift
Always remember that no matter what the problem may be, there is an infinity of solutions. --Marion Weinstein
A girl named Iris was tormented by the boys at school. Whenever she walked by they would make rude noises. Sometimes, when no one was looking, they would block her way and not let her go home. She was too inexperienced at taking care of herself to realize that believing she couldn't do anything made it true. Feeling helpless kept her from thinking about what she might do.
One day she got so scared that she told her best friend what was happening. Together they began to think of all sorts of things she could do. Knowing she could do something took away the helpless feeling, and the boys noticed and stopped teasing her. It wasn't fun for them anymore.
We often feel helpless in situations that seem too much for us to handle. In fact, help is always available--through friends and family, and through our Higher Power, who helps us see how we can help ourselves. All we have to do is stop being distracted by that helpless feeling and ask for what we need.
Can I see the many solutions to my problems today?
From Today's Gift: Daily Meditations for Families ©
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
Life is full of dangers and risks and challenges. We can choose to meet them fearfully or in a spirit of welcome. To choose fear, to say, "I won't take that risk because I might lose," is to prevent ourselves from ever winning. If we welcome the danger, the risk, or the challenge, we acknowledge that life is made up of losses as well as victories, of gains as well as pain.
Life holds the dangers as well as the rewards. We choose how we will act. Sometimes we may feel trapped in a cycle of fearfulness. If we examine our own part, will we find that we are neglecting to take a balanced view? Perhaps, through a fear of losing, we are missing many chances for satisfaction.
Action for the Day: I will remember: I have the power to choose what my attitude will be toward this day's offerings.
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
We are careful never to show intolerance or hatred of drinking
as an institution. Experience shows that such an attitude is not
helpful to anyone. Every new alcoholic looks for this spirit among us
and is immensely relieved when he finds we are not witch-burners.
A spirit of intolerance might repel alcoholics whose lives
could have been saved, had it not been for such stupidity.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Working With Others) p. 103
Thought to Ponder
The Three "C's" -- Concern, Compassion, Consideration.
AA-related 'Alconym'
S T A R = Start Talking About Recovery
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
A serious obligation
by Ralph Marston
It does not benefit anyone for you to be anything less than you’re capable of being. When you resign yourself to accept defeat, to live life less than fully, it is more than just a personal defeat. It is an insult to life itself, an affront to the majestic creation of which you’re a vital part.
It is not just your choice, it is not just your right, it is your obligation to live each day with joy and fulfillment. Those who take that obligation seriously serve to advance not only themselves, but their entire world as well.
It is not in any way selfish to seek your own joy and fulfillment. What’s truly selfish is to ignore them. Raise yourself up, with integrity and sincerity, and those around you are raised as well.
You’re living not only for yourself. A whole universe is depending on you to be the best possible you. No one else can do that. It is a weighty obligation, to be sure. Take it, run with it, and live the greatness that is surely your destiny.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
It does not benefit anyone for you to be anything less than you’re capable of being. When you resign yourself to accept defeat, to live life less than fully, it is more than just a personal defeat. It is an insult to life itself, an affront to the majestic creation of which you’re a vital part.
It is not just your choice, it is not just your right, it is your obligation to live each day with joy and fulfillment. Those who take that obligation seriously serve to advance not only themselves, but their entire world as well.
It is not in any way selfish to seek your own joy and fulfillment. What’s truly selfish is to ignore them. Raise yourself up, with integrity and sincerity, and those around you are raised as well.
You’re living not only for yourself. A whole universe is depending on you to be the best possible you. No one else can do that. It is a weighty obligation, to be sure. Take it, run with it, and live the greatness that is surely your destiny.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
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