Thursday, January 14, 2021
Today's Gift
Humankind has made such great technological progress, developing marvelous tools and instruments to make our life easier, that it is hard to imagine the struggles our ancestors endured. We are so used to these protective and labor-saving devices that we take them for granted. We fail to appreciate them.
So it is with our loved ones, our fellow workers, our friends, and our acquaintances. We are so used to the help, the cooperation, the moral support, and the love we get from them that we may take them for granted. And then we wonder why our relationships don’t always go smoothly. What if we were to show them a little appreciation? What if we were to ask our Higher Power to bless them?
Today I will give thanks to my Higher Power for the people around me and tell them, one by one, how much I appreciate them.
From the book In God's Care, Daily Meditations on Spirituality in Recovery ©
From: Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation - Thought for the Day http://www.hazeldenbettyford.org/recovery/thought-for-the-day
********************************Twenty-Four Hours a DayKeep It Simple
We need our friends. Not just for good times but for basic health. In isolation, everything becomes magnified. Without others to help us form our boundaries and perceptions, whatever we can imagine becomes monstrous and whatever is monstrous becomes reality.
If our old rules tell us to hold back and to decline closeness, we put ourselves at risk when we obey. Lacking the shared experience of others, we are vulnerable, not only to loneliness, but to gross misinterpretation of reality. Minor setbacks may be seen as catastrophic, and people who don’t go out of their way to be friendly may be plotting against us.
By connecting with friends, however, we’re able to see that our monsters are only about knee-high, that most of our fears are made of smoke, and that no gray day can hold out against the sunshine of common sense and a functioning program.
Action for the Day: I am thankful for the stabilizing influence of friends.
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
The philosophy of self-sufficiency is not paying off. Plainly enough, it is a
bone-crushing juggernaut whose final achievement is ruin. Therefore, we
who are alcoholics can consider ourselves fortunate indeed. Each of us has
had their own near-fatal encounter with the juggernaut of self-will, and has
suffered enough under its weight to be willing to look for something better.
- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Three) pp. 37 - 39
Thought to Ponder
I can't do my Higher Power's will my way.
AA-related 'Alconym'
W I L L I N G = When I Live Life, I Need God
From: AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) http://www.aa-alive.net/index.html
Continue your choices***************************Daily MotivationExcerpt of The Daily Motivator
by Ralph Marston
A single positive choice is one step in the right direction. For that one step to have any lasting consequence, you must continue to add to it.
Whatever success you seek will not magically spring from just one choice. Success is built upon many, many choices that all support and enable each other.
Choose a healthy, nutritious breakfast, and follow that choice with a nutritious lunch and dinner. Then continue your healthy choices the next day, and the next, and make those choices a continuing part of your life.
Choose to show up on time and do more than is asked of you, then make that choice again, week after week, month after month. Give power to each positive choice by carrying it with you as you move steadily into the future.
As you follow through with each choice, feel its immediate benefits and envision its long-term value. Right then and there, inspire yourself, commit yourself to making that choice again.
Continue to link your positive choices, another upon another. What you’ve chosen before, you can choose again, giving your choices the power to bear magnificent fruit.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
A single positive choice is one step in the right direction. For that one step to have any lasting consequence, you must continue to add to it.
Whatever success you seek will not magically spring from just one choice. Success is built upon many, many choices that all support and enable each other.
Choose a healthy, nutritious breakfast, and follow that choice with a nutritious lunch and dinner. Then continue your healthy choices the next day, and the next, and make those choices a continuing part of your life.
Choose to show up on time and do more than is asked of you, then make that choice again, week after week, month after month. Give power to each positive choice by carrying it with you as you move steadily into the future.
As you follow through with each choice, feel its immediate benefits and envision its long-term value. Right then and there, inspire yourself, commit yourself to making that choice again.
Continue to link your positive choices, another upon another. What you’ve chosen before, you can choose again, giving your choices the power to bear magnificent fruit.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
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