Friday, May 15, 2020
Today's Gift
Difficulties, opposition, criticism - these things are meant to be overcome, and there is a special joy in facing them and in coming out on top. It is only when there is nothing but praise that life loses its charm, and I begin to wonder what I should do about it. —Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
To be alive means to experience difficulties, conflicts, challenges from many directions. What we do with adverse conditions both determines and is determined by who we are. Resistance, most of us have learned, heightens the adversity. Acceptance of the condition, trusting all the while the lesson it offers us is for our benefit, ensures that we'll "come out on top."
Difficulties are opportunities for advancement, for increased self-awareness, for self-fulfillment. So often we hear and remind one another, that we grow through pain. We can face any situation knowing we have the strength of the Universe to shore us up. Strangely, we need challenges in order to grow; without growth we wither. Happiness is the bounty for facing the momentarily unhappy conditions.
Any difficulty I meet today offers me a chance for even greater happiness; it guarantees my growth.
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
Boundaries are vital to recovery. Having and setting healthy limits is connected to all phases of recovery: growing in self-esteem, dealing with feelings, and learning to really love and value ourselves.
Boundaries emerge from deep within. They are connected to letting go of guilt and shame, and to changing our beliefs about what we deserve. As our thinking about this becomes clearer, so will our boundaries.
Boundaries are also connected to a Higher Timing than our own. We’ll set a limit when we’re ready, and not a moment before. So will others.
There’s something magical about reaching that point of becoming ready to set a limit. We know we mean what we say; others take us seriously too. Things change, not because we’re controlling others, but because we’ve changed.
Today's Action: Today, I will trust that I will learn, grow, and set the limits I need in my life at my own pace. This timing need only be right for me.
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
Time after time newcomers have tried to keep to themselves
certain facts about their lives. Trying to avoid this humbling
experience, they have turned to easier methods. Almost invariably
they got drunk. Having persevered with the rest of the program,
they wondered why they fell. We think the reason is that they
never completed their housecleaning. They took inventory all right,
but hung on to some of the worst items in stock.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Into Action) pp. 72 - 73
Thought to Ponder
I cannot mend if I bend the truth.
AA-related 'Alconym'
N O W = No Other Way
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
Life wants to live
by Ralph Marston
Life wants to survive, but life wants more than just survival. Life wants to live.
Life wants to learn, to love, to improve, to connect, to wonder, to overcome, to feel. Life wants to give.
Explore, ask questions, forgive, experiment, wander, plan, relax, and laugh. Tell stories, and make lots of new ones.
See the big picture, and attend to the small details. Find excitement in the noise, the confusion, and deepen your wisdom in solitude.
Speak your mind, hold your tongue, let yourself cry and know when to be firm. Find the beauty, especially where it’s not supposed to be.
Life wants to live in every way possible, and even in ways that are not. Go ahead, look, listen, imagine, and give life what it wants.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
Life wants to survive, but life wants more than just survival. Life wants to live.
Life wants to learn, to love, to improve, to connect, to wonder, to overcome, to feel. Life wants to give.
Explore, ask questions, forgive, experiment, wander, plan, relax, and laugh. Tell stories, and make lots of new ones.
See the big picture, and attend to the small details. Find excitement in the noise, the confusion, and deepen your wisdom in solitude.
Speak your mind, hold your tongue, let yourself cry and know when to be firm. Find the beauty, especially where it’s not supposed to be.
Life wants to live in every way possible, and even in ways that are not. Go ahead, look, listen, imagine, and give life what it wants.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
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