Wednesday, December 30, 2020
Today's Gift
The more one judges, the less one loves. ~Honoré de Balzac
At times we need to make judgments about people’s behavior. We stand back and look at how their lives affect ours. We have to do this to choose people whose friendships will be good for us. We have to do this before we trust someone in business. We should take a good look at the other person before we fall in love. But once we decide to trust or love someone, we have to stop always judging.
When we love someone, we don’t stand back. We move in close. We give them all our love can offer. We don’t just think and judge. We feel. We are on their side. We look for the good in them. We don’t pick them apart. We love the whole person.
Higher Power, help me to judge a little and love a lot. Help me accept the people I love, faults and all. Help me appreciate them better.
Today I’ll catch myself when I start to judge others. I will accept them as they are.
From the book Keep it Simple, Daily Meditations for Twelve Step Beginnings and Renewal ©
From: Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation - Thought for the Day http://www.hazeldenbettyford.org/recovery/thought-for-the-day
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What does it mean to say we "despise" someone? Usually it means that we have invested a lot of energy in negative feelings; it means that we have let ourselves care deeply about someone. We would never say we "despised" someone who wasn't important to us. Why have we chosen to let negative feelings occupy so much of our hearts?
Sometimes, in the past, that negative energy has become almost an obsession, consuming our time, gnawing at our self-esteem. But in recovery there comes a moment of lightning change; a moment of release from the bonds of obsession. The other person is, after all, just another person--a seeker, like ourselves. And, since we cared enough to devote our time and energies to disliking her, she is probably someone who would be rewarding to know.
Recovery has given us the opportunity to turn over many negative feelings, to discover that "friend" and "enemy" can be two sides of the same person.
Action for the Day: Today, I will look into my heart and see whether I am clinging to obsessive concerns with other people. I will resolve to let them go.
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
We begin to feel the nearness of our Creator. We may have
had certain spiritual beliefs, but now we begin to have a spiritual
experience. The feeling that the drink problem has disappeared
will often come strongly. We feel we are on the Broad Highway,
walking hand in hand with the Spirit of the Universe.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Into Action) p. 75
Thought to Ponder
The ultimate defense against the first drink is a spiritual one.
AA-related 'Alconym'
K I S S = Keeping It Simple, Spiritually
From: AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) http://www.aa-alive.net/index.html
Actually do***************************Daily MotivationExcerpt of The Daily Motivator
by Ralph Marston
Put yourself out there, go ahead and do it. There’s no time to waste and every reason to act.
What you wish to do, plan to do, say you are going to do, none of that matters. It’s what you actually do that makes a difference.
So go ahead and actually do. Now is when and this is where.
You’ll make mistakes, you’ll encounter pushback, and many things won’t go as you anticipated. Yet one way or another you’ll make some progress, and then some more.
Life is in the living, in the doing, in the effort. So fill your life with purpose, with persistence, with action.
Good things happen when you actually do. Start those good things happening now.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
Put yourself out there, go ahead and do it. There’s no time to waste and every reason to act.
What you wish to do, plan to do, say you are going to do, none of that matters. It’s what you actually do that makes a difference.
So go ahead and actually do. Now is when and this is where.
You’ll make mistakes, you’ll encounter pushback, and many things won’t go as you anticipated. Yet one way or another you’ll make some progress, and then some more.
Life is in the living, in the doing, in the effort. So fill your life with purpose, with persistence, with action.
Good things happen when you actually do. Start those good things happening now.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
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