Tuesday, March 10, 2020
Today's Gift
The older you get the more you realize that kindness is synonymous with happiness. --Lionel Barrymore
Once in a while, we forget about the kind things people have done for us. Do we remember the next-door neighbor who helped us get our kite out of a tree, or the brother who helped us finish a project for school? If we think about these kindnesses, we will remember how happy we were to receive them.
These people and others may need a kindness we can give. Our next-door neighbor may get sick and need us to go to the store, a brother or sister may need to borrow something, or the elderly person down the street may need the lawn mowed. Whenever we take the time to give a kindness, we will find that like the boomerang, it returns to us in the form of happiness.
Will I be alert to my chances to give kindness 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
Snapping at a friend often results in being snapped at in return. That doesn’t surprise us. Accusations generally elicit an angry defense and an argument. That comes as no surprise either. By contrast, being loving and compassionate toward the people in our lives generally results in others returning love and compassion to us. Why, then, is it harder to express love?
The fear of rejection is strong for many of us. Offering love while fearing it won’t be returned makes us feel too vulnerable. However, the principles we are being exposed to through this program will help us understand that we do receive from others what we give. The scales are balanced. Remembering that before responding to anyone around us will make our lives far more peaceful.
Action for the Day: I will know what to expect from others today by how I treat them. I pray to be kind and loving.
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
By now the newcomer has probably arrived at the following conclusions:
that their character defects, representing instincts gone astray, have been
the primary cause of their drinking and their failure at life; that unless they are
now willing to work hard at the elimination of the worst of these defects,
both sobriety and peace of mind will still elude them; that all the faulty
foundation of their life will have to be torn out and built anew on bedrock.
- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Four) p. 50
Thought to Ponder
If I want my Higher Power to remove my character defects,
I'll have to stop doing them.
AA-related 'Alconym'
A A = Altered Attitudes
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Daily Motivation
Excerpt of The Daily Motivator
Joys that can now be
by Ralph Marston
Joy never leaves you, but all too often you can forget it was ever there. Are there joys you once treasured, that have faded from your awareness?
Now is a good time to reconnect yourself to them. This is when you can let those joys add new inspiration and positive energy to your life.
The moment you remember a joy, you have it again. Though time and circumstance have changed, every joy you ever knew is a joy you can continue to feel.
Alongside each joy lives the potential for even more joy. You would do well to explore the extent of that potential.
Your heart is not bound by time or distance. And your heart is always eager to be immersed in joy.
Give in to that desire. Surrender yourself to joys you’ve already known and joys that can now be.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
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