Monday, November 2, 2020
Today's Gift
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. —Berthold Auerbach
We may have spiritual experiences in our daily lives that we don't think of as spiritual. For many of us, music lifts us from the practical and mundane circumstances of our lives into communion with the universe. One man may like to listen to country music on the radio, another one might play the piano, and another may go to rock concerts. For each of us, music is a different world from the reasonable, hard data, task-oriented world we usually live in. Music touches our feelings and speaks to us in a special language. It brings us back to special times in the past, perhaps recalls a night of fun and excitement or a person we shared a song with. Music lifts our spirits and opens us to deeper feelings we weren't in touch with. Many of us meet our Higher Power through the music we love.
Today, I will make room for the restorative powers of music 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
We tend to be action-oriented and concerned about showing results in the shortest period of time. Our world has emphasized this outlook. Now we are seeking spiritual progress. We are on a journey seeking a relationship with our Higher Power, with ourselves, and with others.
Spiritual progress is made by pushing aside busyness and efficiency. We become receptive to inspiration by allowing empty spaces in our lives, some solitude and idleness. This moment—right now—is one such time. It is not clearly goal-oriented. Rather it is a moment when we reflect on ourselves as a person. We become receptive to inspiration, to a deeper wisdom, to that part of life we do not command.
Action for the Day: I will remember today that spiritual progress comes only when I make room for it in my life.
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
Carry This Message
Practical experience shows that nothing will so much insure immunity
from drinking and drugging as intensive work with other alcoholics and addicts. It works when other activities fail. This is our twelfth suggestion: Carry this message
to other alcoholics and addicts! You can help when no one else can.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Working With Others) p. 89
Thought to Ponder
In AA, we discover that it is impossible to give
without receiving, or receive without giving.
AA-related 'Alconym'
E S H = Experience, Strength and Hope
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
Work and play
by Ralph Marston
Your work enables you to play, and your play enables you to work. Don’t skip either one or you’ll end up doing neither one very well.
It is by being useless for a while that you get inspired to become more useful. It is by being useful that you earn the time and resources to occasionally be useless.
A common saying is that all work and no play makes you dull and boring. And it’s just as true that all play and no work makes you absolutely intolerable.
So switch it up. Give yourself the work that sustains you and the play that relaxes and invigorates you.
No matter how enjoyable your work may be, it is still work, and your best strategy is to see it as such. No matter how highly focused your play might be, treat it as the play it is.
Whether it’s work or play, go all in and then after a while set it aside. Give your life the benefit of healthy balance.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
Your work enables you to play, and your play enables you to work. Don’t skip either one or you’ll end up doing neither one very well.
It is by being useless for a while that you get inspired to become more useful. It is by being useful that you earn the time and resources to occasionally be useless.
A common saying is that all work and no play makes you dull and boring. And it’s just as true that all play and no work makes you absolutely intolerable.
So switch it up. Give yourself the work that sustains you and the play that relaxes and invigorates you.
No matter how enjoyable your work may be, it is still work, and your best strategy is to see it as such. No matter how highly focused your play might be, treat it as the play it is.
Whether it’s work or play, go all in and then after a while set it aside. Give your life the benefit of healthy balance.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
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