Thursday, July 23, 2020
Today's Gift
For this is wisdom; to live,
To take what fate, or the Universe, may give.
—Laurence Hope
We can't control the events of our lives, but we do have mastery over our attitudes. The chances will be many, today, to react negatively or positively to circumstances we find ourselves in. We can consider that each circumstance has something special in it for us.
Positive expectations regarding the planned as well as spontaneous activities of the day will influence the activity's flow, our involvement with it, and our interactions with the other people involved. A positive attitude seems to breed positive experiences. In other words, we attract into our lives that which we expect. How often do we get up angry, feeling behind when the day has only begun, short-tempered with our children, "ready" for a tough one at work? And we generally find it.
The Serenity Prayer offers us all the knowledge, all the wisdom we'll ever need. We can accept what has to be, change what we can, and not get confused between the two. We can inventory our attitude. Are we taking charge of it? Our attitude is something we can change.
I won't get trapped today by a negative attitude. I will accept the challenge of turning my day around.
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
How many times today will we think or say, “I wish I knew what was going to happen”? We can find contentment in the knowledge that our Higher Power will take care of us, regardless of the outcome of any situation. And even more importantly, Our Higher Power already knows the outcome, and we’ll know it, too, when the time is right. We never need to worry; all is well. We’re given the knowledge and direction we need when we’re ready for it.
If we had known two or three or ten or twenty years ago that we’d be sharing our current journey with non-using, non-drinking people, we’d likely have expressed horror and disbelief. And yet we’re here, gratefully so, living more peace-filled moments than we would have ever imagined possible. We got here, little by little, with our Higher Power’s care. We’ll get where we’re supposed to be in the same loving manner.
Action for the Day: I will trust each moment of my life to my Higher Power’s loving care.
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
We ought to sit down with the family and frankly analyze the past as we
now see it, being very careful not to criticize them. Their defects may be
glaring, but the chances are that our own actions are partly responsible.
So we clean house with the family, asking each morning in meditation that
our Creator show us the way of patience, tolerance, kindliness and love.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Into Action) p. 83
Thought to Ponder
The Three "C's" -- Concern, Compassion, Consideration.
AA-related 'Alconym'
P A U S E = Patience And Understanding Succeed Every time
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
Life is in front of you. Look up at it, see it, live it, love it, give the best of yourself to it.
Treasure all you’ve experienced and all you’ve been, and carry it forward. Give new life to your best memories by making even better ones today.
In front of you, possibility shimmers all the way to the horizon and beyond. Richness and wonder stretch far past anything you have yet seen or imagined.
Go see it, go do it, go give life a more complete experience of itself. Listen, learn, explore, investigate, and with each moment know more fully how it feels to be alive.
With kindness and generosity, share that feeling as you continue to expand on it. With gratitude and humility, sieze upon the opportunity that every moment offers.
Your life is more than a flat concept, more than a collection of carefully posed selfies. Life is rich beyond anything you could ever conceive, and it’s here, now, in front of you, imploring you to live it.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
Life is in front of you. Look up at it, see it, live it, love it, give the best of yourself to it.
Treasure all you’ve experienced and all you’ve been, and carry it forward. Give new life to your best memories by making even better ones today.
In front of you, possibility shimmers all the way to the horizon and beyond. Richness and wonder stretch far past anything you have yet seen or imagined.
Go see it, go do it, go give life a more complete experience of itself. Listen, learn, explore, investigate, and with each moment know more fully how it feels to be alive.
With kindness and generosity, share that feeling as you continue to expand on it. With gratitude and humility, sieze upon the opportunity that every moment offers.
Your life is more than a flat concept, more than a collection of carefully posed selfies. Life is rich beyond anything you could ever conceive, and it’s here, now, in front of you, imploring you to live it.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
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