Tuesday, March 31, 2020
Today's Gift
Freedom is the right to choose; the right to create for yourself the alternatives of choice. Without the exercise of choice, a person is not a person but a member, an instrument, a thing. ~Archibald MacLeish
Gaining personal freedom is no easy matter. Not that it’s impossible to achieve; rather, it’s all too possible, in our heart of hearts, not to really want authentic freedom.
One of the prices of freedom is the requirement that we name our deficiencies. How we dig in our heels when it’s time for such honesty! We dread it so much we may refuse to even attempt change, let alone accept a process of change and stick with it. But there is no other way. We can’t break our own bindings if we refuse to acknowledge them!
But however deep our habits or powerful our compulsions—there are others of us in the program who have had similar feelings. We are not the first or the worst. If we must begin by praying to want freedom, then that’s where we begin.
Today, I move toward greater freedom by looking with greater understanding on my fears.
From Days of Healing, Days of Joy, By Earnie Larsen and Carol Larsen©
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
There was a time when we wouldn't let anyone laugh at us---even ourselves. We had to much shame. We had to much pain. We took the world too seriously. If we laughed it was at others---not at ourselves. Over time , real honest laughter returns to us. Laughter is a way of accepting ourselves as human. To be human means we can make mistakes. It means we can lighten up. It also means growing up. And growing up means being happy with all of who we are---even parts of us that may seem odd or funny. If we can't laugh at ourselves, we shut ourselves off from the world. We shut ourselves off from the parts of us we need to accept. Am I willing to accept the fact that I'm human.
Prayer for the Day: Higher Power, You made laughter. Help me us it to make my life easier. Help me accept all of me a funny mistake I've made.
Action for the Day: Today, I'll share with someone close to me a funny mistake I've made.
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
When, with our Higher Power’s help, we calmly accepted our lot, then we found we
could live at peace with ourselves and show others who still suffered
the same fears that they could get over them, too. We found that
freedom from fear was more important than freedom from want.
- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Twelve) p. 122
Thought to Ponder
Situations I fear are rarely as bad as the fear itself.
AA-related 'Alconym'
F E A R = False Evidence Appearing Real
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Daily Motivation
Excerpt of The Daily Motivator
Energy flow
by Ralph Marston
Where do you find the energy to move forward? It is all around you, in every situation and occurrence.
There is energy in joy, and there is also energy in frustration. There is energy in peace, and energy in sadness as well.
All of it is energy that you can choose to direct toward positive purposes. The particular source of the energy is not nearly as important as what you decide to do with it.
There is no end to the supply of raw energy coming into your life. And you have the opportunity to make meaningful use of it all.
If your life has no guiding purpose, all that energy, coming from so many directions, will keep you in a constant state of turmoil. Or, you can harness that energy and let it all move you powerfully toward the fulfillment of your dreams.
Every moment of every day, life’s energy is coming your way. Take it all in, and make it into something magnificent.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
Where do you find the energy to move forward? It is all around you, in every situation and occurrence.
There is energy in joy, and there is also energy in frustration. There is energy in peace, and energy in sadness as well.
All of it is energy that you can choose to direct toward positive purposes. The particular source of the energy is not nearly as important as what you decide to do with it.
There is no end to the supply of raw energy coming into your life. And you have the opportunity to make meaningful use of it all.
If your life has no guiding purpose, all that energy, coming from so many directions, will keep you in a constant state of turmoil. Or, you can harness that energy and let it all move you powerfully toward the fulfillment of your dreams.
Every moment of every day, life’s energy is coming your way. Take it all in, and make it into something magnificent.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
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