Wednesday, October 28, 2020
Today's Gift
The most elusive knowledge of all is self-knowledge. —Mirra Komarovsky
Discovering who we are is an adventure, one that will thrill and sometimes trouble us and will frequently occupy our thoughtful reflections. We are growing and changing as a result of our commitment to self. And it's that process of commitment that heightens our self-awareness.
We learn who we are by listening to others, by sensing their perceptions of us, by taking an honest, careful inventory of our own behavior. The inner conversations that haunt us while we're interacting with others are poignant guidelines to self-knowledge, self-definition. Just when we think we've figured out who we are and how to handle our flaws, a new challenge will enter our realm of experiences, shaking up all the understandings that have given us guidance heretofore.
It is not an easy task to discover who we really are. It's an even harder job to love and accept the woman we discover. But too many years went by while we avoided or denied or, worse yet, denounced the only person we knew how to be. The Universe offers us ways to learn about and love fully the person within. Nor will we find the way easy every day. But there's time enough to let the process ease our investigation.
I will be soft and deliberate today as I listen to others and myself.
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
********************************Twenty-Four Hours a DayKeep It Simple
We human beings are a mixed bag. We have good traits and bad, and sometimes they’re intertwined. Step Five asks us to discern “the exact nature of our wrongs” and admit them to ourselves, to our Higher Power, and to another human being. That may feel daunting, but here’s the good news: if we truly explore the nature of those wrongs, we can eventually forgive ourselves with full knowledge of them. But if we hold back, unwilling to wrestle with those demons, how can we grant ourselves full forgiveness?
Confronting those truths helps clear the static. And that’s when we can hear our angels sing. Maybe they’re what Abraham Lincoln called “the better angels of our nature”: the self we can be if we choose.
Prayer for the Day: Higher Power, I’m willing to wrestle with my demons. Help me listen for my angels too.
Action for the Day: If I’m having trouble discerning the exact nature of my wrongs, I’ll ask for help.
From: Bluidkiti's Alcohol and Drug Addictions Recovery Help/Support Forums Daily Recovery Readings - http://www.bluidkiti.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=2
****************************
One Day At A Time
When we became alcoholics, crushed by a self-imposed crisis
we could not postpone or evade, we had to fearlessly face the
proposition that either our Higher Power is everything or else They are nothing.
Our Higher Power either is, or isn't. What was our choice to be?
- Alcoholics Anonymous, (We Agnostics) p. 53
Thought to Ponder
I came; I came to; I came to believe.
AA-related 'Alconym'
G I F T = God Is Forever There
From: AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) http://www.aa-alive.net/index.html
Seeing the difficulties***************************Daily MotivationExcerpt of The Daily Motivator
by Ralph Marston
Why are you so skilled at seeing the difficulties? Because it is by addressing those difficulties that you’re able to make progress.
A good and rewarding life is not a life that’s free of challenges. It is a life in which you are energized by those challenges to transcend them.
Do you not know what to do? Your greatest fulfillment comes from figuring it out.
Are you perplexed about how to do it? Then you must set about to find a way.
Is it tiresome, inconvenient, frustrating to make the effort? That’s a good sign the effort is your pathway to achievement, value, satisfaction, and meaning.
When you see that life is difficult what you’re also seeing within yourself is raw energy. Harness that energy and put it to positive use.
Why are you so skilled at seeing the difficulties? Because it is by addressing those difficulties that you’re able to make progress.
A good and rewarding life is not a life that’s free of challenges. It is a life in which you are energized by those challenges to transcend them.
Do you not know what to do? Your greatest fulfillment comes from figuring it out.
Are you perplexed about how to do it? Then you must set about to find a way.
Is it tiresome, inconvenient, frustrating to make the effort? That’s a good sign the effort is your pathway to achievement, value, satisfaction, and meaning.
When you see that life is difficult what you’re also seeing within yourself is raw energy. Harness that energy and put it to positive use.
No comments:
Post a Comment