Friday, August 21, 2020
Today's Gift
With each new day I put away the past and discover the new beginnings I have been given. —Angela L. Wozniak
We can't recapture what is no more. And the minutes or hours we spend dwelling on what was or should have been only steal away from all that presently is. Today stands before us with promise. The opportunities for growth are guaranteed, as is all the spiritual help we need to handle any situation the day offers.
If today offers us a challenge, we can be grateful. Our challenges are gifts. They mean we are ready to move ahead to new awarenesses, to a new sense of our womanhood. Challenges force us to think creatively; they force us to turn to others; they demand that we change. Without challenges, we'd stagnate, enjoying life little, offering life nothing.
We each are making a special contribution, one that only we can make; each time we confront a new situation with courage. Each time we dare to open a new door. What we need to do today is to close the door on yesterday. Then we can stand ready and willing to go forward.
This day awaits my full presence. I will be the recipient of its gifts.
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
We found we didn’t need magic to recover---we needed a miracle! Now we are walking miracles.
Part of our miracle is that we see how important today is. We can’t change our future unless we change today. So we live One Day at a Time. By living today well, we make our future better. There is comfort in knowing that the program will be there. Hope we’ll be there.
Old-timers say sobriety is easy if we go by one simple rule: don’t drink and go to meeting.
Life can get simpler; they don’t change much. Staying sober will be easier for us over time.
Prayer for the Day: Higher Power, help me keep my sobriety simple. Help me accept the rules of life.
Action for the Day: I will list three things that will be there for me tomorrow and the next day, because I’m working on them today.
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
Essentials of Recovery
Most emphatically we wish to say that any alcoholic capable of honestly
facing their problems in the light of our experience can recover, provided
they do not close this mind to all spiritual concepts. They can only be
defeated by an attitude of intolerance or belligerent denial. We find that
no one need have difficulty with the spirituality of the program.
Willingness, honesty and open mindedness are the essentials of recovery.
But these are indispensable.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Appendix II, Spiritual Experience) p. 568
Thought to Ponder
Flexible people do not get bent out of shape.
AA-related 'Alconym'
H O W = Honesty, Open-mindedness, Willingness
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
What can you do today to add joy to life -- to your own life, to the lives of others, or to the world at large?
To the extent that you add true, unencumbered joy to your own life, you more fully become the unique and valuable person that you are. And the joy that you add to the lives of others, comes back to you over and over again.
What makes you tingle with pure delight? What can you do right now to experience that joy? How can you spread it to others? Find a way, and you’ve tapped a powerful force that will bring abundant rewards.
Living with joy honors and affirms the priceless value of life. Celebrate and make the most of each moment by living and giving joy.
What can you do today to add joy to life -- to your own life, to the lives of others, or to the world at large?
To the extent that you add true, unencumbered joy to your own life, you more fully become the unique and valuable person that you are. And the joy that you add to the lives of others, comes back to you over and over again.
What makes you tingle with pure delight? What can you do right now to experience that joy? How can you spread it to others? Find a way, and you’ve tapped a powerful force that will bring abundant rewards.
Living with joy honors and affirms the priceless value of life. Celebrate and make the most of each moment by living and giving joy.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
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