The Work-In: Daily Motivation 3-12-2021

 Friday, March 12, 2021

Today's Gift

No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in. —Gail Sheehy

We usually think of children going through stages. If we talk about a person going through a stage, there is usually a tone of a put down in it. But adults go through stages in their lives too. We have different drives and needs at 22 than we had at 16. Age 40 brings a different experience than 30. It would be sad to reach age 60 or 70 and have no more wisdom than we had twenty years earlier. An adult life crisis can come anytime. We may have grown out of a formerly comfortable job. Perhaps we feel new urgings for a more satisfactory relationship than we have settled for. From our life experience we know that crisis can bring growth.

Courage is required of us from the cradle to the grave. Change continues throughout life. With courage, we can face our crises and the changes that come, and eventually we find the gift of new growth.

Help me find courage enough to live this day and meet the challenges it brings.

From Touchstones: A Book of Daily Meditations for Men ©

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

Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later win a little more. --Louis L'Amour

How much fuller each day feels when we can be patient and accept the inches we have progressed. Yet, we are aware of large problems which require miles of progress. We may want others in our lives to change quickly, we may be impatient with a work situation, or we may feel angry about an addiction.

Perhaps the spiritual message to us is we need to surrender to time. We are on the road moving in the direction of recovery. The forces of progress are at work. Our growth now may come in learning patience and trusting this process. Looking back we might see a mile of progress. It was made an inch at a time.

Action for the Day: Today, I will accept my progress. There are many rewards already.

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

At Home
When your prospect has made such reparation as they can to their family,
and has thoroughly explained to them the new principles by which they are living, they should proceed to put those principles into action at home.
That is, if they are lucky enough to have a home. Though their family be at
fault in many respects, they should not be concerned about that.
They should concentrate on their own spiritual demonstration.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Working With Others) p. 99

Thought to Ponder
The Three "C's" -- Concern, Compassion, Consideration.

AA-related 'Alconym'
A A W O L = A A Way Of Life

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

Changes come

by Ralph Marston

To be alive is to change, from moment to moment, from day to day. You take what comes to you and you make of it what you will, changing all the while.

Some people see themselves as cursed by those changes that come their way. Others see themselves as blessed by the opportunities that those same changes present.

And the fact is, how you see change, how you live it, how you choose to deal with life as it changes, makes all the difference. For change is an engine that can take you as high as you dare to dream.

Changes come continuously and relentlessly. Indeed, they are what keep you alive and what keep life interesting. So grab those changes and make them your friends. For it is through change that you arrive at precisely where you desire to go.

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