Sunday, February 1, 2015
First-ever law to protect gay 'cure' therapies proposed in Oklahoma
Throwback Thursday: World War II and the buddy system
Supporters of same-sex marriage in Alabama to provide cost-free weddings in Huntsville
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| Madison County Courthouse in Huntsville, AL |
Understanding manhood and the evolving perception of masculinity
Feb. 1, 2015 - Today's Gift from Hazelden
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| The Serenity Prayer |
Sunday, Feb. 1, 2015
Today's thought from the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is:
To be alive is to be hungry
Our appetite for life is good. It keeps us reaching, growing, enjoying, and yearning to fulfill our potential. When our basic needs are satisfied, our hunger propels us to search for more elaborate gratification.
Here is where we often run into trouble. Instead of progressing through the hierarchy of needs to the spiritual level, we get stuck in an attempt to make quantity - more things, more people, and more activity - substitute for quality. And quantity alone is never enough.
It's good that we're hungry. Our appetite motivates us to feed our body in a healthy way and also to feed our mind, heart, and spirit. Our needs pyramid, and our hunger leads us beyond quantity to the quality experiences that fill our emptiness. We read, we share, we love, we pray, we listen, we accomplish, we dance, and we feast on the fullness of life.
Today, I will direct my appetite to quality experiences.
To be alive is to be hungry
Our appetite for life is good. It keeps us reaching, growing, enjoying, and yearning to fulfill our potential. When our basic needs are satisfied, our hunger propels us to search for more elaborate gratification.
Here is where we often run into trouble. Instead of progressing through the hierarchy of needs to the spiritual level, we get stuck in an attempt to make quantity - more things, more people, and more activity - substitute for quality. And quantity alone is never enough.
It's good that we're hungry. Our appetite motivates us to feed our body in a healthy way and also to feed our mind, heart, and spirit. Our needs pyramid, and our hunger leads us beyond quantity to the quality experiences that fill our emptiness. We read, we share, we love, we pray, we listen, we accomplish, we dance, and we feast on the fullness of life.
Today, I will direct my appetite to quality experiences.
You are reading from the book:
Inner Harvest by Elisabeth L. © 1990 by Hazelden Foundation
Feb. 1, 2015 - Step by Step
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| The Serenity Prayer |
Step by Step
Sunday, Feb. 1, 2015
Today, I tear down the wall that BITTERNESS has built between me and the Program and recovery - serenity with the world and myself, inclusion instead of exclusion from others in recovery who have found what I have not, a positive instead of a negative influence on everyone around me. Unlike anger, which in some cases is justified, bitterness has NO justification. Like alcohol, the power of bitterness is in its destruction not only of everything and everyone around me but of myself as well. And, like alcohol, bitterness is the epitome of selfishness, of rejection of all that is good and constructive - and a validated ticket to loneliness and isolation. With as much work as I expended on drinking, it takes as much if not more work emotionally and physically to keep bitterness going. Today, I'm too tired and disgusted with bitterness to give it the time and effort needed to fuel it. And our common journey continues. Step by step. - Chris M., 2015
Feb. 1, 2015 - Twenty-Four Hours a Day
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| The Serenity Prayer |
Twenty-Four Hours a Day
Sunday, Feb. 1, 2015
AA Thought for the Day
When we think about having a drink, we're thinking of the kick we get out of drinking, the pleasure, the escape from boredom, the feeling of self-importance and the companionship of other drinkers. What we don't think of is the letdown, the hangover, the remorse, the waste of money and the facing of another day. In other words, when we think about that first drink, we're thinking of all the assets of drinking and none of the liabilities.
What has drinking really got that we haven't got in AA? Do I believe that the liabilities of drinking outweigh the assets?
Meditation for the Day
I will start a new life each day. I will put the old mistakes away and start anew each day. God always offers me a fresh start. I will not be burdened or anxious. If God's forgiveness were only for the righteous and those who had not sinned, where would be its need? I believe that God forgives us all of our sins, if we are honestly trying to live today the way He wants us to live. God forgives us much and we should be very grateful.
Prayer for the Day
I pray that my life may not be spoiled by worry and fear and selfishness. I pray that I may have a glad, thankful and humble heart.
Hazelden Foundation
Feb. 1, 2015 - A Day at a Time
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| The Serenity Prayer |
A Day at a Time
Sunday, Feb. 1, 2015
Reflection for the Day
The longer I'm in The Program, the more clearly I see why it's important for me to understand why I do what I do and say what I say. In the process, I'm coming to realize what kind of person I really am. I see now, for example, that it's far easier to be honest with other people than with myself. I'm learning, also, that we're all hampered by our need to justify our actions and words.
Have I taken an inventory of myself as suggested in the Twelve Steps? Have I admitted my faults to myself, to God and to another human being?
Today I Pray
May I not be stalled in my recovery process by the enormity of The Program's Fourth Step, taking a moral inventory of myself or by admitting these shortcomings to myself, to God and to another human being. May I know that honesty to myself about myself is all-important.
Today I Will Remember
I cannot mend if I bend the truth.
Hazelden Foundation
Feb. 1, 2015 - The Eye Opener
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| The Serenity Prayer |
The Eye Opener
Sunday, Feb. 1, 2015
To us alcoholics, our Twelve Steps of Recovery are the stars on which we set our course of sobriety. Like the seafaring man, we will not get them completely in our grasp, nor do we need to do so. If we but follow the course they indicate, we, too, will reach our haven.
Hazelden Foundation
Saturday, January 31, 2015
People mag confirms Olympian Bruce Jenner transitioning to female
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| Bruce Jenner |
Poll: Rocky road to White House for any anti-gay Republican
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