Monday, April 5, 2021
Today's Gift
Resistance to the events, the situations, the many people who come into our lives blocks the growth we are offered every day. Every moment of every day is offering us a gift: the gift of awareness of other persons, awareness of our natural surroundings, awareness of our own personal impact on creation. And in awareness comes our growth as women.
Living in the now, being present in the moment, guarantees us the protection of the Universe. And in the stretches of time when we anxiously anticipate the events of the future, we cheat ourselves of the security our Higher Power offers us right now.
We are always being taken care of, right here, right now. Being mindful, this minute, of what's happening and only this, eases all anxieties, erases all fears. We only struggle when we have moved our sights from the present moment. Within the now lies all peace.
The most important lesson I have to learn, the lesson that will eliminate all of my pain and struggle, is to receive fully that which is offered in each moment of my life.
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
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Twenty-Four Hours a Day
Keep It Simple
All we are asked to bear we can bear. That is a law of the spiritual life. The only hindrance to the working of this law, as of all benign laws, is fear. --Elizabeth Goudge
There is no problem too difficult to handle with all the help available to us. Let's not be overwhelmed. The program tells us to "Let go and let God," to turn it over. And that's where the solution lies.
Our challenges, the stumbling blocks in our way, beckon us toward the spiritual working-out of the problem which moves us closer toward being the women we are meant to be. Our fear comes from not trusting in the power greater than ourselves to provide the direction we need, to make known the solution.
Every day we will have challenges. We have lessons to learn which mean growing pains. If we could but remember that our challenges are gifts to grow on and that within every problem lies the solution.
Action for the Day: I will not be given more than I and my higher power can handle today, or any day.
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
Showing others who suffer how we were given help is the very
thing which makes life seem so worth while to us now. Cling to
the thought that, in our Higher Power’s hands, the dark past is the greatest
possession you have—the key to life and happiness for others.
With it you can avert death and misery for them.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, (The Family Afterward) p. 124
Thought to Ponder
We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it.
AA-related 'Alconym'
E S H = Experience, Strength, Hope
From: AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) http://www.aa-alive.net/index.html
True to yourself***************************Daily MotivationExcerpt of The Daily Motivator
by Ralph Marston
Do what is right, say what is true. Even if it has no impact on anyone else, it makes a big difference to you.
Twenty four hours a day you must live with yourself and your decisions. You do not want to spend all that time, year after year, with a liar and a coward.
Be as civil, polite, cooperative, and understanding as you possibly can. But stop short of compromising your values, because that is not in anyone’s best interest.
You must first be true to yourself, true within yourself, if you are to be of any help to anyone else. Every good and useful thing you have to offer has its root in a consistent, truthful, authentic vision.
You have the power to set the whole world on a more positive path, but it won’t happen through shouting, preaching, cajoling or demanding. It will come from your steadfast commitment to what you know at your deepest level is true and right.
You have a well-developed sense of what is true, what is right, what is good. For your sake, for everyone’s sake, let it guide your every move.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
Do what is right, say what is true. Even if it has no impact on anyone else, it makes a big difference to you.
Twenty four hours a day you must live with yourself and your decisions. You do not want to spend all that time, year after year, with a liar and a coward.
Be as civil, polite, cooperative, and understanding as you possibly can. But stop short of compromising your values, because that is not in anyone’s best interest.
You must first be true to yourself, true within yourself, if you are to be of any help to anyone else. Every good and useful thing you have to offer has its root in a consistent, truthful, authentic vision.
You have the power to set the whole world on a more positive path, but it won’t happen through shouting, preaching, cajoling or demanding. It will come from your steadfast commitment to what you know at your deepest level is true and right.
You have a well-developed sense of what is true, what is right, what is good. For your sake, for everyone’s sake, let it guide your every move.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
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