Wednesday, May 20, 2020
Today's Gift
It only takes one person to change your life - you. —Ruth Casey
Change is not easy, but it's absolutely unavoidable. Doors will close. Barriers will surface. Frustrations will mount. Nothing stays the same forever, and it's such folly to wish otherwise. Growth accompanies positive change; determining to risk the outcome resulting from a changed behavior or attitude will enhance our self-perceptions. We will have moved forward; in every instance our lives will be influenced by making a change that only each of us can make.
We have all dreaded the changes we knew we had to make. Perhaps even now we fear some impending changes. Where might they take us? It's difficult accepting that the outcome is not ours to control. Only the effort is ours. The solace is that positive changes, which we know are right for us and other people in our lives, are never going to take us astray. In fact, they are necessary for the smooth path just beyond this stumbling block.
When we are troubled by circumstances in our lives, a change is called for, a change that we must initiate. When we reflect on our recent as well as distant past, we will remember that the changes we most dreaded again and again have positively influenced our lives in untold ways.
Change ushers in glad, not bad, tidings.
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
Life holds so many choices now that we are sober. We’d like to go so many places. We’d like to see so many things. We have so much to do.
We are slowly learning how to trust our dreams and reach for them. Our program teaches us that we live one day at a time. We make progress by doing first things first. Easy does it.
Our dreams may seem very big and far away. We wonder if we’ll ever get there, but our faith tells us to go for it. And we know how: one step at a time.
Prayer for the Day: Higher Power, help me know this gentle truth: my life matters. Help me set goals that I can grow toward, one step at a time.
Action for the Day: Today I’ll think about one of my goals. I will list ten little steps that will help me get there.
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
There is a direct linkage among self-examination, meditation,
and prayer. Taken separately, these practices can bring much
relief and benefit. But when they are logically related and
interwoven, the result is an unshakable foundation for life.
- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Eleven) p. 98
Thought to Ponder
Today I pray over the things that I used to drink over.
AA-related 'Alconym'
P U S H = Pray Until Something Happens
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
If you don’t have much energy, start to use whatever energy you do have. You’re sure to get more.
When you can’t muster the enthusiasm to take action, go ahead and take action anyway. The enthusiasm will come.
Whatever you must do, you don’t have to wait to feel like it. Because very quickly, what you do will change the way you feel.
Loan yourself some enthusiasm, some energy, some hopefulness, some ambition. You’ll soon be paying yourself back, with interest.
Rise up, literally, physically, stand straight, look forward. Change the quality of your experience and you’ll immediately change the state of your attitude, of your spirit.
You can feel the way you choose to feel, the way you choose to act. So choose to feel vigorous, energetic, and purposeful by acting that way, and give life all the good things you can give it.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
If you don’t have much energy, start to use whatever energy you do have. You’re sure to get more.
When you can’t muster the enthusiasm to take action, go ahead and take action anyway. The enthusiasm will come.
Whatever you must do, you don’t have to wait to feel like it. Because very quickly, what you do will change the way you feel.
Loan yourself some enthusiasm, some energy, some hopefulness, some ambition. You’ll soon be paying yourself back, with interest.
Rise up, literally, physically, stand straight, look forward. Change the quality of your experience and you’ll immediately change the state of your attitude, of your spirit.
You can feel the way you choose to feel, the way you choose to act. So choose to feel vigorous, energetic, and purposeful by acting that way, and give life all the good things you can give it.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
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