Friday, August 28, 2020
Today's Gift
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. —Helen Keller
The next 24 hours are guaranteed to excite us, to lift us to new levels of understanding, to move us into situations with others where we can offer our unique contributions. All that is asked of us is a willingness to trust that we will be given just what we need at each moment.
We can dare to live, fully, just for today. We can appreciate the extraordinariness of every breath we take, every challenge we encounter. Within each experience is the invitation for us to grow, to reach out to others in caring ways, to discover more fully the person we are capable of being. We must not let a single moment go by unnoticed.
When we withdraw from life, we stunt our growth. We need involvement with others, involvement that perturbs us, humors us, and even stresses us. We tap our internal resources only when we have been pushed to our limits, and our participation in life gifts us, daily, with that push. How necessary the push!
None of us will pass this way again. What we see and feel and say today are gone forever. We have so much to regret when we let things slip away, unnoticed or unappreciated.
A special series of events has been planned for me today. I shall not miss it.
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
Today, let’s be gentle and kind. Lets talk to ourselves with love and respect. Let’s be gentle with others too.
Today, let’s be clear in how we think, speak, and act. And if we start to get mixed up, let’s stop thinking and listen for our Higher Power’s voice.
Today, we know that we have just a small job to do. It is to live today with love in our heart. We can’t take care of every problem in the world. But we make our actions today part of the answer instead of the part of the problem. Let's Keep It Simple.
Prayer for the Day: Higher Power, help me find Your calmness and peace in my heart today.
Action for the Day: Do I believe that peace starts with me? Today, I’ll listen to the simple voice of peace inside of me. And I’ll Keep It Simple.
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
The unselfishness of these people as we have come to know them,
the entire absence of profit motive, and their community spirit,
is indeed inspiring to one who has labored long and wearily in this
alcoholic field. They believe in themselves, and still more in the
Power which pulls chronic alcoholics back from the gates of death.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, (The Doctor's Opinion) pp. xvi - xvii
Thought to Ponder
Only in giving do we receive in full measure.
AA-related 'Alconym'
P R O G R A M = People Relying On Goodness Relaying A Message
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 passage of time does not matter to you. It only matters to the body you inhabit and the material artifacts with which you surround yourself.
Wisdom grows upon itself in an ever-expanding manner. There is always room for more, and there always will be.
Beauty becomes more beautiful as you connect more intensely to it. Life increases in fulfillment as it is lived.
Time does not add or subtract or create or destroy anything on its own. Time merely spaces out your perception of what is always real, and gives you the opportunity to experience it all to the fullest extent.
As quickly as the old times flow away from you, new times flow toward you. Each new moment brings even more possibilities than the moment that has just passed.
Time flows on. And as it does, you can continue to fill your world with the best that life can be.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
The passage of time does not matter to you. It only matters to the body you inhabit and the material artifacts with which you surround yourself.
Wisdom grows upon itself in an ever-expanding manner. There is always room for more, and there always will be.
Beauty becomes more beautiful as you connect more intensely to it. Life increases in fulfillment as it is lived.
Time does not add or subtract or create or destroy anything on its own. Time merely spaces out your perception of what is always real, and gives you the opportunity to experience it all to the fullest extent.
As quickly as the old times flow away from you, new times flow toward you. Each new moment brings even more possibilities than the moment that has just passed.
Time flows on. And as it does, you can continue to fill your world with the best that life can be.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
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