Thursday, June 18, 2020
Today's Gift
Let your conscience be your guide. —Jiminy Cricket
Crickets sing on summer nights because it's their nature to do so. They don't think about whistling or trumpeting or sleeping or changing the world. They've figured out their role on earth, and they do it.
We are a bit more complex than crickets, and most of the time that's lucky. In most of our affairs it's our conscience more than sheer instinct that helps us choose those thoughts and acts and feelings that are right for us.
Each of us has that little voice inside, relentless as a chirping cricket, telling us what to do. Even in the middle of our toughest decisions, we always have within us the solution that is right for us. All we have to do is listen-and trust.
What does my inner voice say about today's decisions?
From Today's Gift: Daily Meditations for Families ©
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
Each of us can attest to the truth of this passage. During the difficult times, however, it is not uppermost in our minds that "what goes around, comes around." It feels all too easy to be justifiably resentful or to gossip, or to ignore another's presence. And the repercussions are seldom immediate. They will come, though.
Goodness is likewise repaid. Giving love, attention, respect to the individuals who share our lives and to the people who cross our paths by chance, will smooth our own passage day by day. The effects of our goodness will often be felt quickly. A smile elicits a smile. Kind thoughts bless us as well as the receiver. Life events do come full circle.
Today's Action: With a bit of effort, I can smile at someone today, even though I'm frowning inside. Both will be better for it.
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
Our description of the alcoholic, the chapter to the agnostic, and our
personal adventures before and after make clear three pertinent ideas:
(a) That we were alcoholic and could not manage our own lives.
(b) That probably no human power could have relieved our alcoholism.
(c) That our Higher Power could and would if They were sought.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Into Action) p. 85
Thought to Ponder
I can't, my Higher Power can, I'll ask Them to.
AA-related 'Alconym'
N U T S = Not Using The Steps
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
The experience of life has made you strong. Today, put that strength to good use, and grow even stronger.
You possess more knowledge and wisdom, greater capability than you had a year ago, or even a week ago. Feel the new strength you’ve gained, and focus it toward a positive, meaningful objective.
Life has asked much of you, and you’ve answered. You’ve persisted through each challenge, solved countless problems, created new value.
It might be easy and comfortable to sit back and rest on your past achievements. Yet you know, deep down, that’s not what achievements are for.
Because with each effort, you’ve invested more of yourself in life. And now you care, more than ever before, about making life the best it can be.
Here you stand today, at the peak of your ability, at the apex of your eagerness to make a difference. Now, do what you know you must.
The experience of life has made you strong. Today, put that strength to good use, and grow even stronger.
You possess more knowledge and wisdom, greater capability than you had a year ago, or even a week ago. Feel the new strength you’ve gained, and focus it toward a positive, meaningful objective.
Life has asked much of you, and you’ve answered. You’ve persisted through each challenge, solved countless problems, created new value.
It might be easy and comfortable to sit back and rest on your past achievements. Yet you know, deep down, that’s not what achievements are for.
Because with each effort, you’ve invested more of yourself in life. And now you care, more than ever before, about making life the best it can be.
Here you stand today, at the peak of your ability, at the apex of your eagerness to make a difference. Now, do what you know you must.
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