Thursday, August 13, 2020
Today's Gift
It's not what we have in life, but who we have in our life that matters. --Unknown
Don't overlook the value of friendship. Don't neglect friends.
Friends are a joy. Adult friendships can be a good place for us to learn to have fun and to appreciate how much fun we can have with a friend.
Friends can be a comfort. Who knows us better, or is more able to give us support, than a good friend? A friendship is a comfortable place to be ourselves. Often, our choice of friends will reflect the issue we're working on. Giving and receiving support will help both people grow.
Some friendships wax and wane, going through cycles throughout the years. Some trail off when one person outgrows the other. Certainly, we will have trials and tests in friendships.
But some friendships will last a lifetime. There are special love relationships, and there are friendships. Sometimes, our friendships can be special love relationships too.
Today, I will reach out to a friend. I will let myself enjoy the comfort, joys, and enduring quality of my friendships.
From The Language of Letting Go by Melody Beattie ©
From: Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation - Thought for the Day http://www.hazeldenbettyford.org/recovery/thought-for-the-day
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Step Six asks us to become entirely ready to let God have our defects. What does that mean? None of us wants troublesome defects. And yet some of them served as survival skills in the past; thus today we may fear parting with them. Listening to sponsors and other program winners helps us see that every defect, in time, turns on us. While it might have helped us cope at one time, it now is killing our spirit, our hope, our relationships. It’s not easy to give up a defect to God. The void this leaves needs filling.
Fortunately, sponsors and other people suggest how to fill the void. And that’s where our assets come in. No matter how low our self-worth, regardless of how inadequate we feel, we all have special positive qualities too. We can take any one of them and demonstrate it in our lives, every day, or even many times a day. We’ll feel empowered, hopeful, and far less encumbered by the traits that have caused us so much pain.
Action for the Day: I will focus on my assets today, and I’ll let others see them at work too.
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
No one is too discredited or has sunk too low to be welcomed
cordially—if he means business. Social distinctions, petty rivalries
and jealousies—these are laughed out of countenance. Being
wrecked in the same vessel, being restored and united under
a Higher Power, with hearts and minds attuned to the welfare of others,
the things which matter so much to some people no longer
signify much to them. How could they?
- Alcoholics Anonymous, (A Vision For You) p. 161
Thought to Ponder
AA is not for people who need it, it's for people who want it.
AA-related 'Alconym'
A A = People Relying On Each Other Relaying A Message
From: AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) http://www.aa-alive.net/index.html
Quality relationships***************************Daily MotivationExcerpt of The Daily Motivator
by Ralph Marston
You cannot gain the support of others by shaming or lecturing. You won’t succeed through begging or desperation.
The way to earn respect is to be respectful, helpful and consistently honest. The way to be loved is to give love without requiring or expecting love in return.
People don’t really care so much about who you are or what you have or the things you’ve done. More than anything, by far, people care about how you treat them.
And faking it doesn’t work at all. It doesn’t take a college degree, or even a high school diploma, to spot a fraud.
You already know all this, and have for quite some time, yet situations arise when you’re tempted to lay it all aside. Let this be your reminder to not give in to that temptation.
Care about people, with your words, actions, priorities, and people are more likely to care about you. The highest quality relationships come from putting your highest and best qualities into them.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
You cannot gain the support of others by shaming or lecturing. You won’t succeed through begging or desperation.
The way to earn respect is to be respectful, helpful and consistently honest. The way to be loved is to give love without requiring or expecting love in return.
People don’t really care so much about who you are or what you have or the things you’ve done. More than anything, by far, people care about how you treat them.
And faking it doesn’t work at all. It doesn’t take a college degree, or even a high school diploma, to spot a fraud.
You already know all this, and have for quite some time, yet situations arise when you’re tempted to lay it all aside. Let this be your reminder to not give in to that temptation.
Care about people, with your words, actions, priorities, and people are more likely to care about you. The highest quality relationships come from putting your highest and best qualities into them.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
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