Tuesday, January 28, 2020
Today's Gift
It is such a secret place, the land of tears. —Antoine de St. Exupery
Where do tears come from? Perhaps each of us has a private well where the tears rise from. Each of us has our own landscape of events that have hurt us or given us joy. And so we have our own private responses to the world around us. Something may hurt one of us that would not hurt another. Like the oceans and rivers, sometimes our well of tears is flowing. We do not always understand all the forces affecting the oceans, or our well of tears. The kind of bucket that draws water from a well is solid and durable, and it lowers itself deep enough to find water. Good friends and family members are like that. It is comforting to share our private well with such people.
Who will I invite to drink from my well 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
A block to joy and love can be unresolved sadness from the past.
In the past, we told ourselves many things to deny the pain: It doesn't hurt that much… Maybe if I just wait, things will change… It's no big deal. I can get through this… Maybe if I try to change the other person, I won't have to change myself.
We denied that it hurt because we didn't want to feel the pain.
Unfinished business doesn't go away. It keeps repeating itself, until it gets our attention, until we feel it, deal with it, and heal. That's one lesson we are learning in recovery from codependency and adult children issues.
Many of us didn't have the tools, support, or safety we needed to acknowledge and accept pain in our past. It's okay. We're safe now. Slowly, carefully, we can begin to open ourselves up to our feelings. We can begin the process of feeling what we have denied so long—not to blame, not to shame, but to heal ourselves in preparation for a better life.
It's okay to cry when we need to cry and feel the sadness many of us have stored within for so long. We can feel and release these feelings.
Grief is a cleansing process. It's an acceptance process. It moves us from our past, into today, and into a better future—a future free of sabotaging behaviors, a future that holds more options than our past.
Prayer for the Day: Higher Power, as I move through this day, let me be open to my feelings Today, help me know that I don't have to either force or repress the healing available to me. Help me trust that if I am open and available, the healing will happen naturally, in a manageable way.
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
Now and then we may be granted a glimpse of that ultimate reality
which is our Higher Power;s kingdom. And we will be comforted and assured that
our own destiny in that realm will be secure for so long as we try,
however falteringly, to find and do the will of our own Creator.
- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Eleven) p. 98
Thought to Ponder
The will of my Higher Power will never take me where
the grace of my Higher Power will not protect me.
AA-related 'Alconym'FAITH = Fear Ain't In This House
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Daily Motivation
Excerpt of The Daily Motivator
by Ralph Marston
Feelings come and feelings go. There is no need to fear them and no need to crave them.
Be open to your feelings and experience them while they are here. Then be open to the feelings that will come next.
Your feelings are a part of your experience. Yet no mere feeling, however intense it may seem, is your permanent reality.
Are you holding yourself back in an attempt to avoid a particular feeling? Or are you clinging so tightly to an old, faded feeling that you miss out on much of what life now offers?
Allow the feelings to come and then allow them to go. When you let the feelings flow naturally and gracefully through your life, they become more valuable, useful, instructive and fulfilling.
Seek to let your feelings be and then to let your feelings go. Fully experience life as it touches you, and you will grow richer with each moment.
Feelings come and feelings go. There is no need to fear them and no need to crave them.
Be open to your feelings and experience them while they are here. Then be open to the feelings that will come next.
Your feelings are a part of your experience. Yet no mere feeling, however intense it may seem, is your permanent reality.
Are you holding yourself back in an attempt to avoid a particular feeling? Or are you clinging so tightly to an old, faded feeling that you miss out on much of what life now offers?
Allow the feelings to come and then allow them to go. When you let the feelings flow naturally and gracefully through your life, they become more valuable, useful, instructive and fulfilling.
Seek to let your feelings be and then to let your feelings go. Fully experience life as it touches you, and you will grow richer with each moment.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
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