Monday, January 20, 2020
Today's Gift
Thoughts—just mere thoughts—are as powerful as electric batteries—as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison. ~Frances Hodgson Burnett
The truck was in mud to its axles. Three lumberjacks sat in stony silence in the cab. There they were, stuck in the woods on their way to the cutting site. The first man slammed the steering wheel, cursed, and stormed out of the truck. The second thought the early morning woods inviting, and said he'd just crawl under a pine to nap until someone came along to pull them out. The third man, left alone, grabbed an axe and a saw and set about cutting wood to slide under the wheels. Within an hour he managed to pull the truck out of its muddy bath and they got on their way.
We can choose how we respond to an obstacle. As with the three men, our response may be to curse and give up, to sit back and wait for someone else to help us, or to set to work fearlessly to try to overcome it ourselves. The event itself isn't important; how we think about it is.
Is there an obstacle in my way 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
Keep It Simple
After we admitted our self-destructive patterns and gave them up, there were many days when we said, "Now what? Is that all there is? I need some answers. How should I live? How can I feel whole? How can I feel like a real person?" These questions may feel too painful to answer. These are among the first spiritual questions we encounter in recovery, and we must not hide or escape from them. They are valuable to us, and we need to follow their urgings.
We are asking these questions as if they were new and unique. But through the centuries many people have asked them too. They found answers we can learn from. They tell us to get engaged with life, take time for reflection, learn to enjoy it where we can, and try to make a contribution.
Action for the Day: Today, I will listen to my questions and doubts as urgings from my Higher Power, pushing me to grow. I will be involved in living.
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
In most cases our motives won't be hard to see and understand.
When prideful, angry, jealous, anxious, or fearful, we acted
accordingly, and that was that. Here we need only recognize that
we did act or think badly, try to visualize how we might have done
better, and resolve with our Higher Power's help to carry these lessons over into
tomorrow, making, of course, any amends still neglected.
- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Ten) p. 94
Thought to Ponder
I can’t fix something if I don’t know what’s wrong.
AA-related 'Alconym'
W I S D O M = When Into Self, Discover Our Motives
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
Seek to know, and seek also to accept the limits of your knowledge. Work to make a difference, and make peace with the reality that you cannot change everything.
Let life be as life is, and allow yourself to be as you are. Make good use of nature, including your own nature, without fighting against it.
Learn all you can, and grow in appreciation for the fact that you can never learn all there is. Feel your strength as you put it into action, and know the even greater strength of letting things be.
When you are bitten by the sensation of need, see if you can let it gently dissolve into nothing. Open yourself ever more fully to the abundance that has always been.
Relinquish any restrictions or conditions you may have imposed on joy. Surrender yourself to the beauty of each moment, each place, every experience you inhabit.
The wind blows, the snow falls, the sun shines, and the richness unfolds in every direction. Let it all be, and live it all well.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
Seek to know, and seek also to accept the limits of your knowledge. Work to make a difference, and make peace with the reality that you cannot change everything.
Let life be as life is, and allow yourself to be as you are. Make good use of nature, including your own nature, without fighting against it.
Learn all you can, and grow in appreciation for the fact that you can never learn all there is. Feel your strength as you put it into action, and know the even greater strength of letting things be.
When you are bitten by the sensation of need, see if you can let it gently dissolve into nothing. Open yourself ever more fully to the abundance that has always been.
Relinquish any restrictions or conditions you may have imposed on joy. Surrender yourself to the beauty of each moment, each place, every experience you inhabit.
The wind blows, the snow falls, the sun shines, and the richness unfolds in every direction. Let it all be, and live it all well.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
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