Wednesday, November 11, 2020
Today's Gift
Life has got to be lived--that's all there is to it. At 70 I would say the advantage is that you take life more calmly. You know that, "This, too, shall pass!" —Eleanor Roosevelt
Wisdom comes with age, but also with maturity. It is knowing that all is well in the midst of a storm. And as our faith grows, as we trust more that there is a power greater than ourselves, which will see us through, we can relax, secure that a better time awaits us.
We will come to understand the part a difficult circumstance has played in our lives. Hindsight makes so much clear. The broken relationship, the lost job, the loneliness have all contributed to who we are becoming. The joy of the wisdom we are acquiring is that hindsight comes more quickly. We can, on occasion, begin to accept a difficult situation's contribution to our wholeness while caught in the turmoil.
How far we have come! So seldom do we stay caught, really trapped, in the fear of misunderstanding. Life must teach us all we need to know. We can make the way easier by stretching our trust--by knowing fully that the pain of the present will open the way to the serenity of the future.
I know that this, whatever it is, too shall pass.
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
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive from where we started
And know the place for the first time.
--T. S. Eliot
We spend much of our lives looking forward to milestones we hope will mark our passage into wisdom--that time and place when once and for all we will know all there is to know.
When I am thirteen, I'll be grown up, we say. When I am sixteen, eighteen, 21, drive a car, graduate, marry, write a book, own a house, find a job, or retire; then I'll be grown up.
When we seek complete transformation, mere insight is disappointing. We find we don't know all there is to know--not at thirteen or 35 or 80. We are still growing up.
The baby, the child, the younger person each of us was yesterday is still with us; we continue to love, hate, hurt, grieve, startle, delight, feel.
There is no magic moment of lasting enlightenment, simply a series of fleeting moments lived one at a time each day. They bring us home to who we've always been.
Action for the Day: What small thing have I learned today?
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
They gave me information about the subject of alcoholism which was
undoubtedly helpful. Of far more importance was the fact that they were
the first living human with whom I had ever talked, who knew what
they were talking about in regard to alcoholism from actual experience.
In other words, they talked my language. They knew all the answers, and
certainly not because they had picked them up in their reading.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Doctor Bob's Nightmare) p. 180
Thought to Ponder
What is now proved was once only imagined.
AA-related 'Alconym'
A A = Answer Available
From: AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) http://www.aa-alive.net/index.html
Intentional attention***************************Daily MotivationExcerpt of The Daily Motivator
by Ralph Marston
Pay attention, but choose where and in what way you pay that attention. Don’t allow your attention to be stolen from you.
Know your purpose, know your values. Know your truth and your intentions.
The most insidious threats to your well being are not physical. They are mental, psychological, emotional, and they are very real, highly destructive.
Your attention is worth more to you than any amount of money. When you spend it, be sure to get something equally valuable in return.
Pay attention in ways that support and promote and nourish what’s most important to you. Fulfill the maximum potential of your attention by taking complete responsibility for it.
Pay your precious attention in ways that make you a more positive, creative, generous, fulfilled person. Pay attention with firmness and excellence in your intention, and make yourself a great life out of it.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
Pay attention, but choose where and in what way you pay that attention. Don’t allow your attention to be stolen from you.
Know your purpose, know your values. Know your truth and your intentions.
The most insidious threats to your well being are not physical. They are mental, psychological, emotional, and they are very real, highly destructive.
Your attention is worth more to you than any amount of money. When you spend it, be sure to get something equally valuable in return.
Pay attention in ways that support and promote and nourish what’s most important to you. Fulfill the maximum potential of your attention by taking complete responsibility for it.
Pay your precious attention in ways that make you a more positive, creative, generous, fulfilled person. Pay attention with firmness and excellence in your intention, and make yourself a great life out of it.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
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