Monday, August 31, 2020
Today's Gift
Feeling equal to other people is a learned behavior.
We compare ourselves to others so automatically that we’re seldom conscious of it. It’s how we measure our worth. Feeling superior or inferior to others might be how we were raised to see the world, but there is another way. It is possible to recognize everyone’s worth, to honor the equality of us all.
Practicing this perception until it becomes automatic will have a profound impact on every circumstance in our lives. When we feel equal to others, they will no longer intimidate us and we will no longer try to shame them. Conflict will subside. Anxiety will recede. When we acknowledge them and ourselves as valuable, necessary, equal, contributing members of society, we will discover a world far different from the one we have known. And we will feel a peace, a joy, that visited us but rarely.
If I want to be at peace today, I need to remember that I am equal to everyone else.
From the book A Life of My Own, Meditations on Hope and Acceptance ©
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 find good in situations, experiences and people when we look for it. Generally we find just what we expect to find. The power attaching to our attitudes is awesome. Often it is immobilizing; too seldom is it positive.
We each create the personal environment that our soul calls home, which means that at any moment we have the power to change our perspective on life, our response to any particular experience and most of all, our feelings about ourselves. Just as we will find good in others when we decide to look for it, we'll find good in ourselves.
We are such special people, all of us. And in our hearts we want joy. What the Universe offers is the awareness that we are the creators of the joy in our hearts. We can relinquish the past and its sorrows, and we can leave the future in the hands of our higher power. The present is singular in its importance to our lives, now.
Behavior generally reveals attitudes, which are of the mind and frequently in conflict with the heart.
Action for the Day: I will strive for congruence. I will let my heart lead the way. It will not only find the good in others, it will imitate it.
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
Practical experience shows that nothing will so much insure
immunity from drinking as intensive work with other alcoholics.
It works when other activities fail. This is our twelfth suggestion:
Carry this message to other alcoholics! You can help when no one
else can. You can secure their confidence when others fail.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Working With Others) p. 89
Thought to Ponder
Get it - Give it - Grow in it.
AA-related 'Alconym'
S P O N S O R = Sober Person Offering Newcomers Suggestions On Recovery
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
It is by giving value that you receive value. You experience meaning and fulfillment to the extent that you make your moments meaningful.
Yes, you can arrange various ways to obtain the external necessities and luxuries with no effort on your part. When you do, those things will add no real value to your life.
At its most fundamental level, life is about making a difference. That experience of making a difference is how you know you matter.
What can you do to give value to this moment, to this situation? At the heart of every desire you’ll find a yearning to give of yourself.
It’s common to keep score based on what you can get. But such an approach, on its own, inevitably comes up empty.
Seek instead to keep your focus on all you can give. And bring your life richness that never runs out.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
It is by giving value that you receive value. You experience meaning and fulfillment to the extent that you make your moments meaningful.
Yes, you can arrange various ways to obtain the external necessities and luxuries with no effort on your part. When you do, those things will add no real value to your life.
At its most fundamental level, life is about making a difference. That experience of making a difference is how you know you matter.
What can you do to give value to this moment, to this situation? At the heart of every desire you’ll find a yearning to give of yourself.
It’s common to keep score based on what you can get. But such an approach, on its own, inevitably comes up empty.
Seek instead to keep your focus on all you can give. And bring your life richness that never runs out.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
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