Wednesday, April 15, 2020
Today's Gift
It seems to me that I have always been waiting for something better - sometimes to see the best I had snatched from me. —Dorothy Reed Mendenhall
Gratitude for what is prepares us for the blessings just around the corner. What is so necessary to understand is that our wait for what's around the corner closes our eyes to the joys of the present moment. We have only the 24 hours ahead of us. In fact, all we can be certain of having is the moment we are presently experiencing. And it is a gift to be enjoyed. There is no better gift just right for us than this moment, at this time.
We can, each of us, look back on former days, realizing that we learned too late the value of a friend or an experience. Both are now gone. With practice and a commitment to ourselves, we can learn to reap the benefits of today, hour by hour. When we detach from the present and wait for tomorrow, or next week, or look to next year, we are stunting our spiritual growth. Life can only bless us now, one breath at a time.
I can live in the present if I choose to. Gentle reminders are often necessary, however. I will step into my life, today. It can become a habit, one I will never want to break.
From Each Day a New Beginning: Daily Meditations for Women by Karen Casey ©
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
Some of us have doubted our inner voice so completely that we abandoned it totally. Many of us have discovered in recovery that by our denial we had violated our inner voice with lies, even to ourselves. Now we question whether we can trust our instincts, and we may not know what we feel.
Spiritual recovery is a return to our guts and our heart. Standing up and speaking from our hearts may be difficult at times, but our self-respect rises as we do. That is where we go for our final decision-making. We develop better reception for the inner voice as we live this program. We accept that we are never absolutely right. We continue with humility, knowing we may be wrong and listening to others and our Higher Power. Yet we must live with our choices.
Action for the Day: I will seek the courage to be faithful to my own instincts.
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
The central fact of our lives today is the absolute certainty
that our Creator has entered into our hearts and lives in a way
which is indeed miraculous. They have commenced to accomplish
those things for us which we could never do by ourselves.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, (There Is A Solution) p. 25
Thought to Ponder
Don't give up before the miracle happens.
AA-related 'Alconym'
F R O G = Fully Rely On Goodness
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
Peaceful moments
by Ralph Marston
Sometimes the best way to move forward is to slow down. Bigger, busier and faster are not always better, though we often assume they are without even thinking about it. A full calendar does not necessarily mean a full life.
You work hard for your life. Spend some significant time living it. You make many sacrifices for your family. Spend some real sustained and joyful time being with that family, free of schedules or expectations. Live the richness that you so often strive to attain.
Stop and enjoy the things you normally hurry past. Spend some quiet, calm, peaceful time, not as an item on your schedule, but apart from it. Let down your defenses, let go of your expectations, give up your pretenses and simply enjoy the supreme beauty of being alive.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
Sometimes the best way to move forward is to slow down. Bigger, busier and faster are not always better, though we often assume they are without even thinking about it. A full calendar does not necessarily mean a full life.
You work hard for your life. Spend some significant time living it. You make many sacrifices for your family. Spend some real sustained and joyful time being with that family, free of schedules or expectations. Live the richness that you so often strive to attain.
Stop and enjoy the things you normally hurry past. Spend some quiet, calm, peaceful time, not as an item on your schedule, but apart from it. Let down your defenses, let go of your expectations, give up your pretenses and simply enjoy the supreme beauty of being alive.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
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