Thursday, February 6, 2020
Today's Gift
Pride works from within; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. —Arthur Schopenhauer
Pride, like all emotions, has two faces: one healthy and one sick. It is our challenge to use the healthy side well. Sick pride fills us with ourselves, looks down on others, and has no room for generosity. Healthy pride is heavy with humility. If we can feel joyful when we succeed, and tell others about it honestly, we are not being boastful.
Sick pride often keeps us from doing things because we are too proud to ask for help when we need it, or too proud to risk failure, or too proud to do anything that might not turn out perfect.
Healthy pride about our greatest victories always comes with the awareness that we did not do it all by ourselves. We had the aid, advice, and encouragement of loved ones. In all things that really count, we never walk alone. Even those who claim pride is not a virtue admit that it is the parent of many virtues.
What makes me proud of myself 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
Behind an able person there are always other able people. --Chinese proverb
Most of us have had a strong desire in our lives to "do it ourselves." We have had the idea that strength and independence meant we should not rely on or receive help from others. Now, in recovery, we are learning a far more mature and time-honored principle. We find strength to develop to our fullest as members of a community. Maybe we never learned how to ask for help. Perhaps we haven't learned yet how to accept it. It may still be difficult to express our gratitude for the help that brought us where we are today.
In recovery, we get many lessons about these things. If we are actively growing, we will get help from others and give it too. The rewards of recovery give us ample reasons and opportunities to express our gratitude. We are no longer loners. Now we have a network of friends who truly enjoy and enhance each other's strength.
Action for the Day: Today, I pray for help in learning how to share my strength and to appreciate the strength of others.
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
Dependence on a Higher Power
They clamor for this or that, claiming they cannot master alcohol until
their material needs are cared for. Nonsense. Some of us have taken
very hard knocks to learn this truth: Job or no job—spouse or no spouse—we
simply do not stop drinking so long as we place dependence upon
other people ahead of dependence on our Higher Power.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Working With Others) p. 98
Thought to Ponder
In AA we don't carry the alcoholic; we carry the message.
AA-related 'Alconym'
F A I T H = For All I Trust my Higher Power
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
Communication and cooperation
by Ralph Marston
You don’t have to completely agree with another person in order to have a fruitful dialogue with that person. You and that other person don’t have to fully understand each other in order to cooperate with each other.
Agreement and understanding can be worthy goals. But don’t let their absence serve as an excuse to shut down communication and cooperation.
Indeed, the way to increase understanding is through robust communication. The way to arrive at agreement is through cooperation.
Great progress is made by people who agree to disagree. Peace and prosperity come not by forcing everyone to agree, but by respecting and tolerating differences of opinion.
Your enemy is not the person who disagrees with you. Your enemy is the person who refuses to interact with you other than by brute force.
The good things you enjoy in life are brought to you by communication and cooperation among people of widely differing backgrounds and viewpoints. It is in your best interest, and everyone’s, to keep up that enormously beneficial behavior.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
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