Friday, November 6, 2015
Nov. 6, 2015 - Video: A love song for princes who long for other princes
Nov. 6, 2015 - I'm not an alcoholic (I just drink too much)
Nov. 6, 2015 - Readings in Recovery: Today's Gift from Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation
Friday, Nov. 6, 2015
Today's thought from the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is:
Do unto others...
Snapping at a friend often results in being snapped at in return. That doesn't surprise us. Accusations generally elicit an angry defense from others and an argument. That comes as no surprise either. By contrast, being loving and compassionate toward the people in our lives generally results in others returning love and compassion to us. Why, then, is it harder to express love?
The fear of rejection is strong for many of us. Offering love while fearing it won't be returned makes us feel too vulnerable. However, the principles we are being exposed to through this program will help us understand that we do receive from others what we give. The scales are balanced. Remembering that before responding to anyone around us will make our lives far more peaceful.
I will know what to expect from others today by how I treat them. I pray to be kind and loving.
Do unto others...
Snapping at a friend often results in being snapped at in return. That doesn't surprise us. Accusations generally elicit an angry defense from others and an argument. That comes as no surprise either. By contrast, being loving and compassionate toward the people in our lives generally results in others returning love and compassion to us. Why, then, is it harder to express love?
The fear of rejection is strong for many of us. Offering love while fearing it won't be returned makes us feel too vulnerable. However, the principles we are being exposed to through this program will help us understand that we do receive from others what we give. The scales are balanced. Remembering that before responding to anyone around us will make our lives far more peaceful.
I will know what to expect from others today by how I treat them. I pray to be kind and loving.
You are reading from the book:
A Life of My Own by Karen Casey. © 1993 by Hazelden Foundation
Nov. 6, 2015 - Readings in Recovery: Step by Step
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| The Serenity Prayer |
Friday, Nov. 6, 2015
"When we first come into AA, many of us are confused because, as a general rule, we're at the end of our respective ropes, and we don't know what to do. It's like the fellow who came in AA and his sponsor said to him, 'Listen, buddy, do you believe in a Higher Power?' And the guy said, 'Heck, yes, I been married to her for years!' Yes, we find it rather confusing but, as we get around and get to know people in the group, they lead the way and all we have to do is to follow." - Alcoholics Anonymous, 3rd Edition, 1976, "They Lost Nearly All," Ch 8 ("Desperation Drinking"), p 512.
Today, through the confusion of beginning recovery and even in sobriety, the answers are simply simple, and the simplest is "to follow." We cannot nor should follow others in recovery for they, too, are in the same boat. Instead, all of us need to follow the Program and its 12 steps and traditions of ethics. Complications that arise are not from the program or traditions but from within; we make it as complicated, confusing or difficult as we allow it. Today, I will counter any confusion, complications or doubts with the simple motto, "Keep It Simple." And our common journey continues. Step by step. - Chris M., 2015
Nov. 6, 2015 - Readings in Recovery: Twenty-Four Hours a Day
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| The Serenity Prayer |
Friday, Nov. 6, 2015
AA Thought for the Day
Fear and worry had me down. They were increased by my drinking. I worried about what I had done when I was drunk. I was afraid of what the consequences might be. I was afraid to face people because of the fear of being found out. Fear kept me in hot water all the time. I was a nervous wreck from fear and worry. I was a tied-up bundle of nerves. I had a fear of failure, of the future, of growing old, of sickness, of hangovers, of suicide. I had a wrong set of ideas and attitudes. When AA told me to surrender these fears and worries to a Higher Power, I did so. I now try to think faith instead of fear.
Have I put faith in place of fear?
Meditation for the Day
Spiritual power is God in action. God can only act through human beings. Whenever you, however weak you may be, allow God to act through you, then all you think and say and do is spiritually powerful. It is not you alone who produces a change in the lives of others! It is also the Divine Spirit in you and working through you. Power is God in action. God can use you as a tool to accomplish miracles in people's lives.
Prayer for the Day
I pray that I may try to let God's power act through me today. I pray that I may get rid of those blocks which keep His power from me.
Hazelden Foundation
Nov. 6, 2015 - Readings in Recovery: A Day at a Time
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| The Serenity Prayer |
Friday, Nov. 6, 2015
Reflection for the Day
There are no boundaries to meditation. It has neither width, depth nor height, which means that it can always be further developed without limitation of any sort. Meditation is an individual matter; few of us meditate in the same way, and in that sense, it is truly a personal adventure. For all of us who practice meditation seriously, however, the purpose is the same: to improve our conscious contact with God. Despite its lack of specific dimensions and despite its intangibility, meditation is, in reality, the most intensely practical thing that we can do. One of its first rewards, for example, is emotional balance. What could be more practical than that?
Am I broadening and deepening the channel between myself and God?
Today I Pray
As I seek God through daily prayer and meditation - may I find the peace that passes understanding, that balance that gives perspective to the whole of life. May I center myself in God.
Today I Will Remember
My balance comes from God.
Hazelden Foundation
Nov. 6, 2015 - Readings in Recovery: The Eye Opener
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| The Serenity Prayer |
Friday, Nov. 6, 2015
According to St. John, God is Love. That appears to be the only description given and leads us to assume that it is His chief attribute. The fact that things are not always as we think they should be does not contradict it. Practically all our griefs we brought upon ourselves, many of them were essential in order to fully develop our characters, and many may be the result of God's long-range planning that we with our limited perception, cannot conceive.
If God had not loved the world, He would have given up on it a long time ago.
Hazelden Foundation
Thursday, November 5, 2015
Nov. 5, 2015 - Kentucky clerk petitions to vacate all adverse rulings against her
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