Monday, December 28, 2020
Today's Gift
One needs something to believe in, something for which one can have wholehearted enthusiasm. —Hannah Senesh
Life offers little, if we sit passively in the midst of activity. Involvement is a prerequisite if we are to grow. For our lives' purposes we need enthusiasm; we need enthusiasm in order to greet the day expectantly. When we look toward the day with anticipation, we are open to all the possibilities for action.
We must respond to our possibilities if we are to mature emotionally and recover spiritually. Idly observing life from the sidelines guarantees no development beyond our present level. We begin to change once we start living up to our commitment to the program, its possibilities and our purpose, and it's that change, many days over, that moves us beyond the negative, passive outlook of days gone by.
The Universe has offered us something to believe in. We are no longer the person we were. So much more have we become! Each day's worth of recovery carries us closer to fulfilling our purpose in life.
I believe in recovery, my own; when I believe in success, I'll find it. There is magic in believing.
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
As the sore tooth draws our tongue, so do rejections, affronts, painful criticisms, both past and present draw our minds. We court self-pity, both loving and hating it. But we can change this pattern. First we must decide we are ready to do so. The program tells us we must become "entirely ready." And then we must ask to have this shortcoming removed.
The desire to dwell on the injustices of our lives becomes habitual. It takes hours of our time. It influences our perceptions of all other experiences. We have to be willing to replace that time-consuming activity with one that's good and healthy.
We must be prepared for all of life to change. Our overriding self-pity has so tarnished our perceptions that we may never have sensed all the good that life daily offers. How often we see the glass as half-empty rather than half-full!
Action for the Day: A new set of experiences awaits me today. And I can perceive them unfettered by the memories of the painful past. Self-pity need not cage me, today.
Worse, Never Better
All of us felt at times that we were regaining control, but such
intervals—usually brief—were inevitably followed by still less
control, which led in time to pitiful and incomprehensible
demoralization. We are convinced to a man that alcoholics
of our type are in the grip of a progressive illness.
Over any considerable period we get worse, never better.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, (More About Alcoholism) p. 30
Thought to Ponder
When we try to control our drinking, we have already lost control.
AA-related 'Alconym'
S L I P = Sobriety Lost Its Priority.
Let life speak to you
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
Worse, Never Better
All of us felt at times that we were regaining control, but such
intervals—usually brief—were inevitably followed by still less
control, which led in time to pitiful and incomprehensible
demoralization. We are convinced to a man that alcoholics
of our type are in the grip of a progressive illness.
Over any considerable period we get worse, never better.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, (More About Alcoholism) p. 30
Thought to Ponder
When we try to control our drinking, we have already lost control.
AA-related 'Alconym'
S L I P = Sobriety Lost Its Priority.
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
Let life speak to you. With no complaint or agenda or expectation or judgment on your part, let life reveal its truth.
Open yourself to experience what’s really there, what’s actually happening. See the beauty, feel the texture, observe the cycles and rhythms that continue on and on.
Seek to taste life, to appreciate its wonder, not to capture or to possess it. Endeavor to work within life’s realities, not to overpower or control those realities.
Let life be, and let yourself be one with it, at peace with it. Understand that you will never fully understand, and draw deep wisdom from that awareness.
Know that each ending opens the way for a new beginning. Watch as life changes, and remains ever the same.
Sincerely experience and celebrate life. Let life speak to you, let life come to you, and let life find authentic, beneficial expression in all you do.
Let life speak to you. With no complaint or agenda or expectation or judgment on your part, let life reveal its truth.
Open yourself to experience what’s really there, what’s actually happening. See the beauty, feel the texture, observe the cycles and rhythms that continue on and on.
Seek to taste life, to appreciate its wonder, not to capture or to possess it. Endeavor to work within life’s realities, not to overpower or control those realities.
Let life be, and let yourself be one with it, at peace with it. Understand that you will never fully understand, and draw deep wisdom from that awareness.
Know that each ending opens the way for a new beginning. Watch as life changes, and remains ever the same.
Sincerely experience and celebrate life. Let life speak to you, let life come to you, and let life find authentic, beneficial expression in all you do.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
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