Thursday, June 17, 2021
Today's Gift
Grant us the serenity to accept the things we cannot change. Many times - yesterday, last week, today, and even tomorrow - we'll come face-to-face with a seemingly intolerable situation. The compulsion to change the situation, to demand that another person change the situation, is great. What a hard lesson it is, to learn we can change only ourselves! The hidden gift in this lesson is that as our activities change, often the intolerable situations do, too.
Acceptance, after a time, smoothes all the ripples that discourage us. And it softens us. It nurtures wisdom. It attracts joy and love from others. Ironically, we often try to force changes that we think will "loosen" love and lessen struggle. Acceptance can do what our willpower could never accomplish.
As we grow in wisdom, as we grow in understanding, as we realize the strength and support of the Universe, we'll stand ready, as persons, to weather all our personal storms. Like the willow in the wind, we'll bend rather than break. And we'll be able to help our others become wise through our example.
My lessons are not easy. But they will ease my way. Better days begin, today.
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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Master the lessons of your present circumstances.
We do not move forward by resisting what is undesirable in our life today. We move forward, we grow, we change by acceptance.
Avoidance is not the key; surrender opens the door.
Listen to this truth: We are each in our present circumstances for a reason. There is a lesson, a valuable lesson that must be learned before we can move forward.
Something important is being worked out in us, and in those around us. We may not be able to identify it today; but we can know that it is important. We can know it is good.
Overcome not by force, overcome by surrender. The battle is fought, and won, inside ourselves. We must go through it until we learn, until we accept, until we become grateful, until we are set free.
Action for the Day: Today, I will be open to the lessons of my present circumstances. I do not have to label, know, or understand what I'm learning; I will see clearly in time. For today, trust and gratitude are sufficient.
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
If the owner of the business is to be successful, they cannot fool their self
about values. We did exactly the same thing with our lives. We took
stock honestly. First, we searched out the flaws in our make-up which
caused our failure. Being convinced that self, manifested in various ways,
was what had defeated us, we considered its common manifestations.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) p. 64
Thought to Ponder
Each day, I can ask my Higher Power to remove the bondage of self.
AA-related 'Alconym'
I S M = I, Self, Me
From: AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) http://www.aa-alive.net/index.html
Make yourself willing***************************Daily Motivation
by Ralph Marston
You never would have thought you could do it but you did. Because you really wanted to, or you had no other choice.
What other things might you be able to accomplish, that you never thought you could? What profound challenge, what deep-seated desire can you set before yourself that will energize your spirit and activate your skills?
When you are unwilling, nothing much happens, no matter how well-positioned you are. When you are sufficiently willing, pretty much anything is possible even if you’re burdened by severe disadvantages.
Determine exactly what would make you willing. Fill your mind and your heart with all the details of how much better it will be than any alternative.
Put the whole of yourself into an intimate and continuing relationship with your reason why. Make yourself willing.
Amaze yourself again with all the good things you can get done. Make yourself willing, fill your existence with purpose, and bring to life all the achievements you are meant to achieve.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
You never would have thought you could do it but you did. Because you really wanted to, or you had no other choice.
What other things might you be able to accomplish, that you never thought you could? What profound challenge, what deep-seated desire can you set before yourself that will energize your spirit and activate your skills?
When you are unwilling, nothing much happens, no matter how well-positioned you are. When you are sufficiently willing, pretty much anything is possible even if you’re burdened by severe disadvantages.
Determine exactly what would make you willing. Fill your mind and your heart with all the details of how much better it will be than any alternative.
Put the whole of yourself into an intimate and continuing relationship with your reason why. Make yourself willing.
Amaze yourself again with all the good things you can get done. Make yourself willing, fill your existence with purpose, and bring to life all the achievements you are meant to achieve.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
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