Thursday, January 2, 2020
Today's Gift
I believe that a sign of maturity is accepting deferred gratification. ~Peggy Cahn
It's okay to want to feel good all the time. Happiness is something we all deserve. However, there are often preparatory steps we need to take, a number of which will not bring joy, before we arrive at a place of sustained happiness.
The level of our pain at any particular moment has prompted us to seek short-term highs. And with each attempt at a quick "fix," we will be reminded that, just as with our many former attempts, the high is very short-term.
Long-term happiness is not the byproduct of short-term gratification. We don't have to earn happiness, exactly, but we do have to discover where it's found. How fortunate we are to have the Universe guiding our search. We will find happiness when we learn to get quiet and listen to our inner selves. We will find happiness when we focus less on our personal problems and more on the needs of others.
Many of us will need to redefine what happiness is. Understanding our value and necessity to our circle of acquaintances will bring us happiness, a happiness that will sustain us, and so will gratitude for our friends, our growing health, our self-care also sustain us. Sincerely touching the soul of someone else can tap the well of happiness within each of us.
I will find happiness. Searching within myself, I will patiently, trustingly share myself with others.
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
Life is like a winding path surrounded by flowers, butterflies, and delicious fruit, but many of us spend much of life looking for happiness around the next corner. We do not bend to enjoy the happiness, which is ours for the taking just at our feet.
In our desire to reach the "pot of gold," the complete and lasting happiness we all want to fill our lives, we ignore anything which doesn't seem worthy of such a large ambition, or which can't give us the whole thing all at once.
Happiness is all around us, but it often comes in small grains. When we gather it grain by grain, we soon have a basket full.
Action for the Day: I will be mindful of my surroundings and enjoy the things that make me happy.
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
Change Has Occurred
On the other hand—and strange as this may seem to those who
do not understand—once a psychic change has occurred, the very
same person who seemed doomed, who had so many problems
they despaired of ever solving them, suddenly find their self easily
able to control their desire for alcohol, the only effort necessary
being that required to follow a few simple rules.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, (The Doctor's Opinion) p. xxix
Thought to Ponder
The greatest gift that can come to anyone is a spiritual awakening.
AA-related 'Alconym'
W I L L I N G = When I Live Life, I Need a Power Greater than myself
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
by Ralph Marston
It’s not standing in your way. It’s pointing the way.
It’s not holding you back. It’s strengthening your determination to move forward.
It’s not an inconvenience, frustration, embarrassment, or ordeal. It’s a situation through which you can enrich your life.
Some day, you’ll be thankful it’s behind you. And you’ll also end up being thankful you went through it.
Life’s richness does not simply pour forth unimpeded, with no effort necessary on your part. Indeed, your effort to build, acquire, nurture, sustain and preserve anything is what makes it into richness.
So go ahead now, go to the trouble, give whatever it takes. And you can make new richness out of whatever comes your way.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
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