The Work-In: Daily Motivation 9-4-2020

Friday, September 4, 2020

Today's Gift

It is as important to cultivate your silence power, as it is your word power. —William James

We bless ourselves with renewal and healing when we retreat from the world for a few private moments of silence. The power we cultivate in silence isn't generated by us; that power comes to us. We can do this by deliberately withdrawing from all distractions. Then we quiet our inner selves by concentrating on deep relaxation, thinking about a brief reading, or by meditating.

Most of us already have a personal island of renewal that we have turned to many times in the past for serenity and strength. We can use it and turn to it daily. This natural pattern is necessary for a strong and healthy life. It builds our relationship with our Higher Power and ourselves. In our problems with self-esteem, we often label as worthless the quiet, subtle things we do, but these very things are essential to build our strength and self esteem.

I will take time for silence to receive the power it gives in my life.

From Touchstones: A Book of Daily Meditations for Men ©

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

Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health. ~Michel de Montaigne

Our program isn’t working. We are misunderstood. Nothing’s going well at work. We just can’t see it through. Why doesn’t someone help us?

Impatience! We become fretful and blame others for our shortcomings.

Impatience! We lose touch with the tempo of life and our own particular rhythm.

Impatience! We are convinced our addiction will never stop tormenting us.

Let’s slow down and get back in touch with life’s movement. We know that all things have their season and their motion and their end. It may feel like winter, but spring will come and then summer. Nothing remains static; everything changes and grows. There is a pattern to all life—including ours—if we are patient enough to discern it.

Action for the Day: I will slow down to get in touch with the rhythms of my life and of life outside me.

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

Meditation
We will want the good that is in us all, even in the worst of us,
to flower and to grow. Most certainly we shall need bracing air
and an abundance of food. But first of all we shall want sunlight;
nothing much can grow in the dark.
Meditation is our step out into the sun.
-Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Eleven) p. 98

Thought to Ponder
Prayer asks the question. Meditation listens for the answer.

AA-related 'Alconym'
P A U S E = Perhaps An Unexplored Solution Exists

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

Live the beauty

by Ralph Marston

Feast your soul upon the beauty that’s in each moment. Be drawn into the beauty stretching out in every direction.

Beauty’s purpose is to be experienced, to be appreciated, to be loved. Give beauty its fulfillment by opening yourself to it, by finding joy in its sublime presence.

Listen to the beautiful songs being sung. Watch as stories of new and unique beauty unfold.

Draw energy from the beauty. Let it carry you away from your own tiny assumptions and give you a taste of the infinite.

Stop striving so earnestly to zero in on a clever purpose. Allow beauty to fill you, to move you, inspire you, and authentic purpose will engulf your whole being.

Experience truth in its most compelling and magnificent form. See the beauty, live the beauty, be the beauty.

From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/