The Work-In: Daily Motivation 12-4-2020

Friday, December 4, 2020

Today's Gift 

Letting go means to come to the realization that some people, outcomes, ideas, feelings, wants, needs, desires - everything are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny. ― Author Unknown

"How much do we need to let go of?" a friend asked one day.

"I'm not certain," I replied, "but maybe everything."

Letting go is a spiritual, emotional, mental, and physical process, a sometimes mysterious metaphysical process of releasing to our Higher Power and the Universe that which we are clinging to so tightly.

We let go of our grasp on people, outcomes, ideas, feelings, wants, needs, desires - everything. We let go of trying to control our progress in recovery. Yes, it's important to acknowledge and accept what we want and what we want to happen. But it's equally important to follow through by letting go.

Letting go is the action part of faith. It is a behavior that gives our Higher Power and the Universe permission to send us what we're meant to have.

Letting go means we acknowledge that hanging on so tightly isn't helping to solve the problem, change the person, or get the outcome we desire. It isn't helping us. In fact, we learn that hanging on often blocks us from getting what we want and need.

Who are we to say that things aren't happening exactly as they need to happen?

There is magic in letting go. Sometimes we get what we want soon after we let go. Sometimes it takes longer. Sometimes the specific outcome we desire doesn't happen. Something better does.

Letting go sets us free and connects us to our Source.

Letting go creates the optimum environment for the best possible outcomes and solutions.

Today, I will relax. I will let go of that which is upsetting me the most. I will trust that by letting go, I have started the wheels in motion for things to work out in the best possible way.

From The Language of Letting Go by Melody Beattie ©

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

It is a long baptism into the seas of humankind, my child. Better immersion than to live untouched. --Tillie Olsen

We have each had days when we preferred hiding under the covers, avoiding life at all costs. And in times gone by, we did just that, sometimes too frequently. What we didn't always know, and what we still forget on occasion, is that we have a ready and willing partner who will join us in every pursuit.

The more fully we commit ourselves to one another and to all our experience, the closer we will come to the very serenity we long for. Serenity accompanies our increasing understanding of life's many mysteries. It's easy to cheat ourselves out of the prizes any day offers us. Fear fosters inertia, leaving us separate, alone, even more afraid. But we have an appointment with life. And our appointment will bring us to the place of full understanding, the place where we'll be certain, forever after, that all is well. And that life is good.

Action for the Day: Today's appointments are part of the bigger plan for my life. I will face them, enjoy them, and reap their rewards.

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

Inventory
Beginning with Step Four, we commenced to search out the things
in ourselves which had brought us to physical, moral, and spiritual
bankruptcy. We made a searching and fearless moral inventory.
Looking at Step Five, we decided that an inventory, taken alone,
wouldn't be enough. We knew we would have to quit the deadly
business of living alone with our conflicts, and in honesty confide
these to God and another human being.
- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Twelve) pp. 107 - 108

Thought to Ponder
A fear faced is a fear erased.

AA-related 'Alconym'
F E A R = Face Everything And Recover

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

Your time to live

by Ralph Marston

This is your time to live. This is your time to add beauty and value to the experience of life.

Treasure this precious time. Protect it from meaningless distractions and destructive negativity by filling it with purposeful action.

Time is steadily added to your life. Be just as steady in your use of it.

Don’t waste your time. Don’t hurry through it.

Give your love, attention, and care to every moment. Wherever you are, whoever you’re with, whatever you’re doing, do it with excellence.

Take this time that is now yours and focus on fulfilling its highest possibilities. This is your time to live, and to give new richness to life.

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