The Work-In: Daily Motivation 11-5-2020

   Thursday, November 5, 2020

Today's Gift

The future is made of the same stuff as the present. —Simone Weil

The only lessons that matter for our lives at this time will come to us today. Just as what we needed and were ready for yesterday came yesterday, tomorrow insures more of the same. Concerning ourselves with any other moment but the present prevents us from responding when "the teacher appears."

In years gone by, we perhaps hung onto yesterday's problems. We may still struggle to hang onto them. Or perhaps we try to see too far ahead. But we are learning that there is a right time for all growth. A right time for all experiences. And the right time may not fit our timetable. What doesn't come our way today, will come when the time is right. Each day we are granted just what is needed. We need not worry about the future. It will offer us whatever rightly comes next, but it can't do so until we have experienced these 24 hours before us.

There is wonder and joy awaiting me, each day. The growth I experience is just what is needed at this time. I am a student, and the teacher will appear.

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

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Twenty-Four Hours a Day

Keep It Simple

The struggle of the male to learn to listen to and respect his own intuitive, inner promptings is the greatest challenge of all. His... conditioning has been so powerful that it has all but destroyed his ability to be self-aware. —Herb Goldberg

Men strive to be successful with mechanical, physical, and powerful things. Some of us have succeeded in those supposedly "male" ways and others haven't. But whether we have or not, most of us have poured our energies into those directions and neglected the other way of being strong men. We may not have learned how to be gentle and helpful fathers, sensitive lovers, or men in tune with our own spirits and feelings. Many of us never learned to recognize what we feel.

Perhaps we were taught to stand up for ourselves. But have we learned to stand up for our right to have feelings? Do we stand up for our right to be learners and to make mistakes? Do we stand up for our right to be aware and to be the men we find ourselves to be, rather than what others tell us we should be?

Action for the Day: I will become more aware of my inner-self as a growing man on this uncharted journey.

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

Permanent Recovery
But when the broker gave him Dr. Silkworth’s description of alcoholism and its
hopelessness, the physician began to pursue the spiritual remedy for his malady
with a willingness he had never before been able to muster. He sobered, never
to drink again up to the moment of his death in 1950. This seemed to prove that
one alcoholic could affect another as no nonalcoholic could. It also indicated that
strenuous work, one alcoholic with another, was vital to permanent recovery.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Foreward To Second Edition) pp. pp. xvi - xvii

Thought to Ponder
To keep it, you have to give it away.

AA-related 'Alconym'
A L C O H O L I C S = A Life Consisting Of Helping Others Lived In Continuous Sobriety

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

Another opportunity

by Ralph Marston

It’s not the end of the world. It’s not the beginning of a glorious new utopia.

It’s another day that you can use to make a difference. It’s another opportunity for you to live your life with richness, love, and meaning.

The winds of opinion shift from one direction to another and back again, repeatedly. Take your bearings, take the situation of the moment into account, and move forward.

What you can do now is what you can always do. Give your sincere best to every endeavor.

Sometimes the challenges are more, sometimes a little less. Sometimes the crowd is with you, other times you must move in spite of the crowd to get where you choose to go.

No matter how you feel about yesterday, today there is much to be thankful for, and plenty of work to do. Consider all that’s available to you, and resolve once again to put it to good use.

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