Friday, April 30, 2021
Today's Gift
Finding Our Own Truth
We must each discover our own truth. It does not help us if those we love find their truth. They cannot give it to us. It does not help if someone we love knows a particular truth in our life. We must discover our truth for ourselves. We must each discover and stand in our own light. We often need to struggle, fail, and be confused and frustrated. That’s how we break through our struggle; that’s how we learn what is true and right for ourselves.
Each of us has our own share of truth, waiting to reveal itself to us. Each of us has our own share of the light, waiting for us to stand in it, to claim it as ours. Encouragement helps. Support helps. A firm belief that each person has truth available—appropriate to each situation—is what will help. Each experience, each frustration, each situation, has its own truth waiting to be revealed. Don’t give up until you find it—for yourself. We shall be guided into truth, if we are seeking it. We are not alone.
Today, I will search for my own truth, and I will allow others to do the same. I will place value on my vision and the vision of others. We are each on the journey, making our own discoveries—the ones that are right for us today.
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
********************************Twenty-Four Hours a DayKeep It Simple
Being used to a situation, even a painful one, carries with it a level of comfort. Moving away from the pain, changing the situation, be it job, home, or marriage, takes courage and support from other persons. But even more it takes faith that the change will benefit us. For most of us, the pain will need to worsen.
In retrospect, we wonder why it took us so long. We forget, from one instance to the next, that a new door cannot open until we've closed one behind us. The more important fact is that a new one will always open without fail. The pain of the old experience is trying to push us to new challenges, new opportunities, and new growth. We can handle the change; we can handle the growth. We are never given more than we can handle, and we are always given just what we need.
Experience can't prepare us for the ramifications of a new change. But our trust in friends, and our faith in the spiritual process of life, can and will see us through whatever comes.
Today's Action: If a change of any kind is facing me today, I will know that I am not alone. Whatever I am facing is right for me and necessary to my well-being. Life is growth. The next stage of my life awaits me.
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
They had much knowledge about theirself as an alcoholic. Yet all
reasons for not drinking were easily pushed aside in favor of the
foolish idea that they could take whiskey if only they mixed it with milk!
Whatever the precise definition of the word may be, we call this
plain insanity. How can such a lack of proportion, of the ability
to think straight, be called anything else?
- Alcoholics Anonymous, (More About Alcoholism) pp. 36 - 37
Thought to Ponder
It's not what I know in recovery that keeps me sober.
It's what I do that keeps me sober.
AA-related 'Alconym'
I S M = I Sabotage Myself
From: AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) http://www.aa-alive.net/index.html
Thoughts and instincts***************************Daily MotivationExcerpt of The Daily Motivator
by Ralph Marston
Pay attention to your own thoughts and instincts. They come to you for good reason.
They are the voice of your life’s experience. They remind you of what you have forgotten or never even realized you knew.
No, your thoughts are not all knowing, your instincts are not perfect. But neither are they without meaning and value.
Give your thoughts at least as much consideration as you give to the words and advice of others. When you find yourself telling yourself something, listen with respect and curiosity.
Regularly give yourself sufficient solitude so you can hear yourself think. It’s amazing what will come to the surface when there’s no noise to drown it out.
Every day of your life you’ve been building wisdom within. Be sure to let that wisdom have its say.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
Pay attention to your own thoughts and instincts. They come to you for good reason.
They are the voice of your life’s experience. They remind you of what you have forgotten or never even realized you knew.
No, your thoughts are not all knowing, your instincts are not perfect. But neither are they without meaning and value.
Give your thoughts at least as much consideration as you give to the words and advice of others. When you find yourself telling yourself something, listen with respect and curiosity.
Regularly give yourself sufficient solitude so you can hear yourself think. It’s amazing what will come to the surface when there’s no noise to drown it out.
Every day of your life you’ve been building wisdom within. Be sure to let that wisdom have its say.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
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