Friday, April 23, 2021
Today's Gift
There is wonder in the moment, if we but look for it, let it touch us, believe in it. And with the recognition and celebration of the wonder comes the joy we desire and await.
Being wholly in tune with the present moment is how we'll come to know the spiritual essence that connects all of life. We search for peace, happiness, and contentment outside of ourselves. We need instead to discover it within us, now and always, in whatever we are experiencing.
We can let our experiences wash over us. Longing for a different time, a distant place, a new situation breed's discontent. It prevents us from the thrill, the gifts offered in this present moment. But they are there.
We can practice feeling joyful in the present, be thrilled with the realization that right now, all is well. All is always well. Life is full of mystery and wonder and each moment of our awareness adds to the wonder.
I am moving forward; we all are. I am on target. I am participating in a glorious, wonderful drama. Let me jump for joy. I have been specially blessed.
From Each Day a New Beginning: Daily Meditations for Women by Karen Casey ©
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
Our lives are patchwork quilts of mismatched fabrics, all stitched together by an invisible seamstress. The tattered, blood-red scraps of quarrels, the beige of pastry crust baked on Saturdays in a grandmother's kitchen that always smelled sweet, the brilliant colors of our happy moments--picnics and sunsets and laughter--all these are necessary pieces of the tapestry of our lives, even our cold, white doubts and emptiness.
All the colors of life sewn together with the green thread of growth. We are a mixture of feelings and experiences. Often, we want to cut away a square of painful memory. But without it, our quilt would lose its beauty, for contrast would disappear. If a piece is removed, the rest is weakened and incomplete.
Today's Action: I will accept any pain I feel today as a part of my own beauty.
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
In most cases our motives won't be hard to see and understand.
When prideful, angry, jealous, anxious, or fearful, we acted
accordingly, and that was that. Here we need only recognize that
we did act or think badly, try to visualize how we might have done
better, and resolve with our Higher Power's help to carry these lessons over into
tomorrow, making, of course, any amends still neglected.
- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Ten) p. 94
Thought to Ponder
I can’t fix something if I don’t know what’s wrong.
AA-related 'Alconym'
W I S D O M = When Into Self, Discover Our Motives
From: AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) http://www.aa-alive.net/index.html
Do it again***************************Daily MotivationExcerpt of The Daily Motivator
by Ralph Marston
It’s very quick and easy to pull one weed out of your garden. It’s so easy in fact that you can do it again, and again, until all the weeds are gone.
You have no problem staying focused and on task for a brief moment. By simply stringing those moments together you can get hours of highly effective work done.
You know you can do it once and that means you can do it again. Repeat a positive pattern enough times, and whatever success you desire can be yours.
Remind yourself it’s not a massive task that you face. It’s a small, easily approachable task that’s repeated again and again.
Persistence is not a long and drawn out effort. Persistence happens in a series of instants, by simply starting the next step when you’ve finished the current step.
You don’t need some superhuman effort to get good and valuable things done. You just have to take the next step, and then continue to do it again.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
It’s very quick and easy to pull one weed out of your garden. It’s so easy in fact that you can do it again, and again, until all the weeds are gone.
You have no problem staying focused and on task for a brief moment. By simply stringing those moments together you can get hours of highly effective work done.
You know you can do it once and that means you can do it again. Repeat a positive pattern enough times, and whatever success you desire can be yours.
Remind yourself it’s not a massive task that you face. It’s a small, easily approachable task that’s repeated again and again.
Persistence is not a long and drawn out effort. Persistence happens in a series of instants, by simply starting the next step when you’ve finished the current step.
You don’t need some superhuman effort to get good and valuable things done. You just have to take the next step, and then continue to do it again.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
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