Tuesday, August 18, 2020
Today's Gift
Large streams from little fountains flow. —David Everett
Somewhere nearby, no matter where we are, runs a creek. We've seen plenty of them, narrow and rocky. In summer it's hardly a creek at all, but in the spring, it feeds a mighty river.
Each of us is like that creek, a trickle contributing to some greater plan. Sometimes we feel dried up, contributing nothing. Often we feel small, rocky, not up to the task - when we can understand what the task is.
Sometimes the task seems too simple - get up each morning, love and work and live the day as honestly as we can. What kind of contribution is that? Sometimes it seems too complicated. How much more we could contribute if we could see the whole river - where it begins and ends - if we knew what would happen tomorrow.
So we ebb and flow. And in our moments of contentment, we know we are doing the best we can each day.
What contribution, however small, can I offer the world today?
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
Keep It Simple
Each passing minute is all that we are certain of having. The choice is ever present to relish the moment, reaping fully whatever its benefits, knowing that we are being given just what we need each day of our lives. We must not pass up what is offered today.
Time accompanies us like a friend, though often a friend denied or ignored. We can't recapture what was offered yesterday. It's gone. All that stands before us is here, now.
We can nurture the moment and know that the pain and pleasures offered us with each moment are our friends, the teachers our inner selves await. And we can be mindful that this time, this combination of events and people, won't come again. They are the gift of the present. We can be grateful.
We miss the opportunities the day offers because we don't recognize the experiences as the lesson designed for the next stage of our development. The moment's offerings are just, necessary, and friendly to our spiritual growth.
Action for the Day: I will take today in my arms and love it. I will love all it offers; it is a friend bearing gifts galore.
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
For it is only by accepting and solving our problems that we can
begin to get right with ourselves and with the world about us, and
with our Higher Power who presides over us all. Understanding is the key to right
principles and attitudes, and right action is the key to good living;
therefore the joy of good living is the theme of A.A.'s Twelfth Step.
- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Twelve) p. 125
Thought to Ponder
The Three A's .. Awareness, Acceptance, Action.
AA-related 'Alconym'
F R E E = Fortunately, Recovery Enhances Everything
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
In this moment is everything you need to live with richness and joy. Can you see it?
If you use this moment merely to wish for more, you’ll miss out on most of the value that could be yours right now. If you fill this moment with worries about the problems you face, you’ll miss out on the opportunity to transcend those problems.
Instead, find as much as you can about this moment that you can genuinely appreciate. And as you do, the real value of this moment will become more and more available to you.
The options open to you in this moment are more numerous than you can imagine. Find a few of the best of those possibilities, and bring them lovingly to life.
In this moment there is real magic. For in this moment your precious life is lived.
Let all the anger, the worries, frustrations and distractions fall away. And let this moment come to life.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
In this moment is everything you need to live with richness and joy. Can you see it?
If you use this moment merely to wish for more, you’ll miss out on most of the value that could be yours right now. If you fill this moment with worries about the problems you face, you’ll miss out on the opportunity to transcend those problems.
Instead, find as much as you can about this moment that you can genuinely appreciate. And as you do, the real value of this moment will become more and more available to you.
The options open to you in this moment are more numerous than you can imagine. Find a few of the best of those possibilities, and bring them lovingly to life.
In this moment there is real magic. For in this moment your precious life is lived.
Let all the anger, the worries, frustrations and distractions fall away. And let this moment come to life.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
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