Friday, February 14, 2020
Today's Gift
Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. —Karl Menninger
Receiving a loving hug from a parent or perhaps a smile from a friend or even a stranger gives us a special feeling inside. We know we are important to others when they show us their love through attention. And we sometimes forget that we matter to others. Family members and friends feel good in the same way when we show them our love. Everyone needs to be loved.
How can we show our love? Must it be through a hug? Doing a favor for someone is loving. Helping around the house or the yard is loving, particularly when we've volunteered our help. Giving an unexpected gift to a friend is a way of showing love. Showing others we care, even when they are angry, is perhaps the nicest of all expressions of love.
What new way can I show someone I care 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
For children, Valentine's Day means candy hearts, silly cards, and excitement in the air.
How different Valentine's Day can be for us as adults. The Love Day can be a symbol that we have not yet gotten love to work for us as we would like.
Or it can be a symbol of something different, something better. We are in recovery now. We have begun the healing process. Our most painful relationships, we have learned, have assisted us on the journey to healing, even if they did little more than point out our own issues or show us what we don't want in our life.
We have started the journey of learning to love ourselves. We have started the process of opening our heart to love, real love that flows from us, to others, and back again. Do something loving for yourself. Do something loving and fun for your friends, for your children, or for anyone you choose.
It is the Love Day. Wherever we are in our healing process, we can have as much fun with it as we choose. Whatever our circumstances, we can be grateful that our heart is opening to love.
Action for the Day: I will open myself to the love available to me from people, the Universe, and my Higher Power today. I will allow myself to give and receive the love I want today. I am grateful that my heart is healing, that I am learning to love.
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 that we're in A.A. and sober, and winning back the esteem of
our friends and business associates, we find that we still need to
exercise special vigilance. As an insurance against “big-shot-ism”
we can often check ourselves by remembering that we are today
sober only by the grace of our Higher Power and that any success we may be
having is far more Their success than ours.
- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Ten) p. 92
Thought to Ponder
Gratitude is the greatest of all virtues.
AA-related 'Alconym'
B A T H = Behavior, Attitude, Thinking, Habits
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
Get yourself through it
by Ralph Marston
It’s not easy, what you must do. It’s frustrating, inconvenient, complicated, and sometimes doesn’t even make sense.
But here’s the thing. Get yourself through it and you make yourself stronger.
Get yourself through it and watch your confidence skyrocket. Get yourself through it, and all sorts of new possibilities will open up to you.
You’re not meant to sit around and have all the goodies in life handed to you for free. You know you’re a whole lot better than that.
So don’t you dare even think about feeling sorry for yourself when things get a little difficult. There’s nothing to feel sorry about, because you have a chance to make a real, meaningful difference.
Get yourself through it, and make things better for everybody. Get yourself through it, and get yourself to a whole new level of purposeful living.
It’s not easy, what you must do. It’s frustrating, inconvenient, complicated, and sometimes doesn’t even make sense.
But here’s the thing. Get yourself through it and you make yourself stronger.
Get yourself through it and watch your confidence skyrocket. Get yourself through it, and all sorts of new possibilities will open up to you.
You’re not meant to sit around and have all the goodies in life handed to you for free. You know you’re a whole lot better than that.
So don’t you dare even think about feeling sorry for yourself when things get a little difficult. There’s nothing to feel sorry about, because you have a chance to make a real, meaningful difference.
Get yourself through it, and make things better for everybody. Get yourself through it, and get yourself to a whole new level of purposeful living.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
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