Tuesday, November 10, 2020
Today's Gift
We are all special cases. ~Albert Camus
We spend so much time and energy comparing ourselves to others and far too frequently end up feeling inferior. Perhaps someone at work is more articulate than we are, or an acquaintance always seems more striking and self-assured. And most of us know couples who seem to have the perfect relationship while we continue to struggle in ours or have no significant other.
On occasion we might even feel superior to some people—like the gruff man in line ahead of us at the bank or the rude cashier at the grocery store. But in all cases, the moment we compare and thus create a separation between ourselves and others, we deny the blessing of the Univere’s all-encompassing plan for each of us.
We are all one in the Universe. When we realize our connection to one another, we learn our task is to care for each other rather than artificially set ourselves apart.
I will look around me carefully today and notice how I’m connected to others rather than how I’m separate.
I will help myself grow today.
From the book In God's Care, Daily Meditations on Spirituality in Recovery ©
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
America’s greatest killer is…what? Car wrecks? Heart attacks? Cancer? Alcoholism? How about suffocation by a sense of inferiority? Many of us adult children have tragic personal insight into the number of alcoholic deaths that are attributed to pneumonia, congestive heart failure, or anything but alcoholism. But feelings of inferiority are just as lethal as any of these. Although they may not appear so, people who feel a deep sense of inferiority are not fully alive.
But there is ample evidence that people do love us, that we are missed when we are not around. For all the doom and gloom that may be familiar to us, aren’t we surrounded also by beauty? Doesn’t the sun rise each day? And don’t we have it within our power to make of this day whatever we choose?
Action for the Day: Today, I remind myself I have something to contribute.
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
Realization dawns that he is but a small part of a great whole; that
no personal sacrifice is too great for preservation of the Fellowship.
He learns that the clamor of desires and ambitions within him must
be silenced whenever these could damage the group. It becomes
plain that the group must survive or the individual will not.
- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Tradition One) p. 130
Thought to Ponder
There is no strength without unity.
AA-related 'Alconym'
A A's - R - U S = Alcoholics Anonymous Recovery Unity Service
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
You cannot go back to a better time. Yet you can always go forward to a better time.
When you do, you carry with you a powerful perspective. It’s a perspective expertly informed by what worked out well in the past and what didn’t.
Time moves only in one direction. If you seek to move against it you become bitter, irrelevant, and ineffective.
Choose instead to embrace each moment as it arrives. Fill it with new instances of what you know to be good, worthwhile, true and beneficial.
Don’t waste your energy wishing for another yesterday. Take yesterday’s goodness and re-imagine it for tomorrow.
The good old days are gone, yet they’ve left you with an abundance of great experience. Now put that experience to use and get to work creating some good new days.
You cannot go back to a better time. Yet you can always go forward to a better time.
When you do, you carry with you a powerful perspective. It’s a perspective expertly informed by what worked out well in the past and what didn’t.
Time moves only in one direction. If you seek to move against it you become bitter, irrelevant, and ineffective.
Choose instead to embrace each moment as it arrives. Fill it with new instances of what you know to be good, worthwhile, true and beneficial.
Don’t waste your energy wishing for another yesterday. Take yesterday’s goodness and re-imagine it for tomorrow.
The good old days are gone, yet they’ve left you with an abundance of great experience. Now put that experience to use and get to work creating some good new days.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
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