Wednesday, May 13, 2020
Today's Gift
Your sense of what will bring happiness is so crude and blundering. Try something else as a compass. Maybe the moralists are right and happiness doesn't come from seeking pleasure and ease. —Joanna Field
We think we know what will make us happy. Seldom do we readily accept that painful moments are often the price tags for peaceful, happy times. Nor do we appreciate that happiness lives within each of us; never is it intrinsic to the events we experience. Because we look for happiness "out there" and expect it gift-wrapped in a particular way, we miss the joy of being fully alive each passing moment. How distorted our sense of happiness can be! How futile our search!
The way still isn't easy every step we take, but we will find happiness in those fleeting moments when we can get outside of ourselves long enough to be fully attentive to the people in our lives. We'll find it because it's been there all the time. It flows between us when we open our hearts to give and to receive compassion. Being truly there for another person is the key, which unlocks the gate holding happiness back.
I will let someone in today and feel the rush of happiness.
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
With a smile on your face,
And show the world all the love in your heart.
Then people gonna treat you better.
You're gonna find, yes, you will,
That you're beautiful as you feel. ~Carole King
Act "as if." There's magic in behaving the way we want to be, even though we don't yet feel it. The behavior seems to lead the way. The attitude, the mental state, follows.
Many days we may not get up with love in our hearts for our family, our friends, our co-workers. We may, in fact, want them to show their love for us first. But if we reach out, give love unconditionally, focus on another's needs, love will return tenfold. And the act of loving them will lift our own spirits. We will know love; we will feel love for ourselves and the many other persons close to us.
The attitude we cultivate, whether one of love or selfishness, inferiority or superiority, will determine how the events of our lives affect us. The principle is so simple. If we meet life with love, with a smile, we'll find love and something to smile about.
Action for the Day: My attitude will make this day what it becomes. Meeting it head on, with love, will assure me of a lovely day.
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 joy of living is the theme of A.A.'s Twelfth Step, and action is its key word.
Here we turn outward toward our fellow alcoholics who are still in distress.
Here we experience the kind of giving that asks no rewards.
Here we begin to practice all Twelve Steps of the program in our daily lives
so that we and those about us may find emotional sobriety.
- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Twelve) p. 106
Thought to Ponder
AA is not something we join; it's a way of life.
AA-related 'Alconym'
B E S T = Been Enjoying Sobriety Today
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
by Ralph Marston
Here’s a quick, reliable, accessible way to genuinely feel good. Offer kindness to someone.
Here’s a surefire way to know you matter, to know without a doubt that you’re making a difference. Give kindness to another person.
Although your kindness may not even be noticed by anyone else, it has great value. Because you notice, and you observe the goodness within you being put into action.
Kindness heals, forgives, forgets past wrongs, and enables future progress. Kindness leaves, in the hearts of those who receive it, the urge to pass it along, to expand it and improve upon it.
Kindness is authentic, not complicated, within the reach of anyone. Those who practice kindness grow stronger, more confident, more creative, connected, and fulfilled.
Today you’ll encounter numerous opportunities for kindness. To the extent you sieze upon them, everybody wins.
Here’s a quick, reliable, accessible way to genuinely feel good. Offer kindness to someone.
Here’s a surefire way to know you matter, to know without a doubt that you’re making a difference. Give kindness to another person.
Although your kindness may not even be noticed by anyone else, it has great value. Because you notice, and you observe the goodness within you being put into action.
Kindness heals, forgives, forgets past wrongs, and enables future progress. Kindness leaves, in the hearts of those who receive it, the urge to pass it along, to expand it and improve upon it.
Kindness is authentic, not complicated, within the reach of anyone. Those who practice kindness grow stronger, more confident, more creative, connected, and fulfilled.
Today you’ll encounter numerous opportunities for kindness. To the extent you sieze upon them, everybody wins.
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