Tuesday, September 15, 2020
Today's Gift
We are sturdy beings. But in many ways, we are fragile. We can accept change and loss, but this comes at our own pace and in our own way. And only the Universe and we can determine the timing. —Codependent No More
Getting Through Hard Times
Hard times, stressful times, are not all there is to life, but they are part of life, growth, and moving forward.
What we do with hard times, or hard energy, is our choice.
We can use the energy of hard times to work out, and work through, our issues. We can use it to fine-tune our skills and our spirituality. Or we can go through these situations suffering, storing up bitterness, and refusing to grow or change.
Hard times can motivate and mold us to bring out our best. We can use these times to move forward and upward to higher levels of living, loving, and growth.
The choice is ours. Will we let ourselves feel? Will we take a spiritual approach, including gratitude, toward the event? Will we question life and our Higher Power by asking what we're supposed to be learning and doing? Or will we use the incident to prove old, negative beliefs? Will we say, "Nothing good ever happens to me... I'm just a victim... People can't be trusted... Life isn't worth living"?
We do not always require hard energy, or stress, to motivate us to grow and change. We do not have to create stress, seek it, or attract it. But if it's there, we can learn to channel it into growth and use it for achieving what's good in life.
Higher Power, let my hard times be healing times.
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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Twenty-Four Hours a Day
Keep It Simple
Our fellowship tells us to take care of ourselves first. It tells us that life and our Twelve Step program come before anyone or anything else. But what if we get too self-centered about this? Taking care of ourselves does not mean being selfish or maliciously hurting others to meet our own needs. What it means is that we learn to love and nurture ourselves, because we are important. We are truly closest to ourselves. If we don’t love ourselves, who will?
The famous psychologist Erich Fromm said that if people can love productively, then they can also love themselves; if they can love only others, then they cannot love at all. This means that, to be able to love others, we need the capacity to love and care for ourselves.
Am I learning to love myself?
Prayer for the Day: Higher Power, help me to love myself so that I may better love you and others.
Action for the Day: Today I will work on how I feel about myself.
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
We were having trouble with personal relationships, we couldn’t control
our emotional natures, we were a prey to misery and depression, we
couldn’t make a living, we had a feeling of uselessness, we were full of
fear, we were unhappy, we couldn’t seem to be of real help to other
people—was not a basic solution of these bedevilments more important
than whether we should see newsreels of lunar flight? Of course it was.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, (We Agnostics) p. 52
Thought to Ponder
If I always do what I've always done, I'll always get what I've always gotten.
AA-related 'Alconym'
A B C = Acceptance, Belief, Change
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 more you learn from your problems, the more effective you become at dealing with them. The more you learn from a problem, the less likely it is to trouble you again.
When a difficult problem comes along it can be easy to feel sorry for yourself. Yet pity, whether from yourself or others, is not what will help the situation.
What will help is a positive, informed response. What will help is effective action.
At first, go ahead and feel bad about the problem. Then make the choice to transform that intensely bad feeling into powerful positive energy.
Problems can get your attention and motivate you, so let them. Problems can teach you, so learn everything you can.
Choose to be positively motivated, to learn, and to respond with action. Be fully determined to move forward, and you will.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
The more you learn from your problems, the more effective you become at dealing with them. The more you learn from a problem, the less likely it is to trouble you again.
When a difficult problem comes along it can be easy to feel sorry for yourself. Yet pity, whether from yourself or others, is not what will help the situation.
What will help is a positive, informed response. What will help is effective action.
At first, go ahead and feel bad about the problem. Then make the choice to transform that intensely bad feeling into powerful positive energy.
Problems can get your attention and motivate you, so let them. Problems can teach you, so learn everything you can.
Choose to be positively motivated, to learn, and to respond with action. Be fully determined to move forward, and you will.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
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