Wednesday, April 14, 2021
Today's Gift
What do people really want? What are we seeking? Many of us have felt driven and still feel restless or compulsive at times. We frantically followed our impulses to self-destructive extremes. Even those painful actions of our past were motivated, at the bottom line, by a spiritual search. What did we really seek in compulsive actions, or in the dysfunctional behaviors, or in our work? Slowing down enough every day to let ourselves know what we are looking for gives us a much better chance of finding it.
Today we can slow down by taking twenty minutes for solitude and quiet, for meditation or prayer. We can call a friend simply for a moment of contact. We might read something to give ourselves some ideas to ponder, or we can listen to music, which will transport us to another world. Perhaps we can simply walk more slowly from our cars or the bus stop to our homes. Often it is not the events in our lives that bring change but the space between events.
Today, I will try to remember that slowing down may help me find what I am seeking.
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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Keep It Simple
Gratitude for what is prepares us for the blessings just around the corner. What is so necessary to understand is that our wait for what's around the corner closes our eyes to the joys of the present moment. We have only the 24 hours ahead of us. In fact, all we can be certain of having is the moment we are presently experiencing. And it is a gift to be enjoyed. There is no better gift just right for us than this moment, at this time.
We can, each of us, look back on former days, realizing that we learned too late the value of a friend or an experience. Both are now gone. With practice and a commitment to ourselves, we can learn to reap the benefits of today, hour by hour. When we detach from the present and wait for tomorrow, or next week, or look to next year, we are stunting our spiritual growth. Life can only bless us now, one breath at a time.
Today's Action: I can live in the present if I choose to. Gentle reminders are often necessary, however. I will step into my life, today. It can become a habit, one I will never want to break.
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
Belief in the power of a Higher Power, plus enough willingness, honesty
and humility to establish and maintain the new order of things,
were the essential requirements. Simple, but not easy; a price
had to be paid. It meant destruction of self-centeredness. I must
turn in all things to the Father of Light who presides over us all..
- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Bill's Story) pp. 13 - 14
Thought to Ponder
While it isn't always easy, if I keep it simple, it works.
AA-related 'Alconym'
P A I D = Pitiful And Incomprehensible Demoralization
From: AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) http://www.aa-alive.net/index.html
Set sail at sunset***************************Daily MotivationExcerpt of The Daily Motivator
by Ralph Marston
Do what enables and encourages you to be delighted with the world. It is no less a necessity than breathing, eating, sleeping.
See that which is beyond what you have a reason to see. Experience what you could not ever expect to experience.
Make sure all your planning and striving have a purpose beyond merely more planning and striving. If you can make sense of all that calls to you, you’re not listening intently enough.
In this particular time and place you’re connected to all that has ever been and all that can possibly be. Gaze through those windows of beauty and mystery that permit you to see that reality.
Many things limit and constrain you, while some things set you free. Pay attention to them all.
Set sail at sunset, fly to the moon. Remind yourself how beautiful and amazing it is, to be.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
Do what enables and encourages you to be delighted with the world. It is no less a necessity than breathing, eating, sleeping.
See that which is beyond what you have a reason to see. Experience what you could not ever expect to experience.
Make sure all your planning and striving have a purpose beyond merely more planning and striving. If you can make sense of all that calls to you, you’re not listening intently enough.
In this particular time and place you’re connected to all that has ever been and all that can possibly be. Gaze through those windows of beauty and mystery that permit you to see that reality.
Many things limit and constrain you, while some things set you free. Pay attention to them all.
Set sail at sunset, fly to the moon. Remind yourself how beautiful and amazing it is, to be.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
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