Saturday, November 7, 2015
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Nov. 7, 2015 - Readings in Recovery: Today's Gift from Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation
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| The Serenity Prayer |
Saturday, Nov. 7, 2015
Today's thought from the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is:
Some people walk in the rain. Others just get wet.
-- Roger Miller
Gifts are usually surprises. We don't generally know what the ribbons, bows, and wrapping conceal.
Life's greatest misfortunes are, in retrospect, often referred to as gifts. While a debt can feel like a curse, when we finally get to the bottom of what's happened to us, we're surprised to find something good - a gift or blessing of sorts. Through our misfortune, we may have developed some true and lasting relationships, learned we had some admirable qualities we didn't know we had, or discovered the meaning of courage.
Today, if I am struggling. I will anticipate the wondrous surprise to come.
Some people walk in the rain. Others just get wet.
-- Roger Miller
Gifts are usually surprises. We don't generally know what the ribbons, bows, and wrapping conceal.
Life's greatest misfortunes are, in retrospect, often referred to as gifts. While a debt can feel like a curse, when we finally get to the bottom of what's happened to us, we're surprised to find something good - a gift or blessing of sorts. Through our misfortune, we may have developed some true and lasting relationships, learned we had some admirable qualities we didn't know we had, or discovered the meaning of courage.
Today, if I am struggling. I will anticipate the wondrous surprise to come.
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Letting Go of Debt © 2000 by Hazelden Foundation
Nov. 7, 2015 - Readings in Recovery: Step by Step
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| The Serenity prayer |
Saturday, Nov. 7, 2015
"The last ...years of my life have been rich and meaningful. I have had my share of problems, heartaches and disappointments, because that is life, but also I have known a great deal of joy, and a peace that is the handmaiden of an inner freedom. I have a wealth of friends and, with my AA friends, an unusual quality of fellowship. For, to these people, I am truly related. First, through mutual pain and despair, and later through mutual objectives and new-found faith and hope. And, as the years go by, working together, sharing our experiences with one another, and also sharing a mutual trust, understanding and love - without strings, without obligation - we acquire relationships that are unique and priceless." - Alcoholics Anonymous, 3rd Edition, 1976, "Alcoholics Anonymous Number Three," Ch 12 ("The Keys of the Kingdom"), p 312.
Today, I will not forget my beginning in AA and the "mutual pain and despair" with other newcomers and, now, the "mutual objectives and new-found faith and hope" of recovery and sobriety. Whether I recognize it, this is progress. If the pain and despair when I arrived in AA have been replaced with faith and hope, I am moving forward. I cannot expect sobriety to spare me the "problems, heartaches and disappointments" that come with life, but I can expect to meet them sober - as long as I do what Program advises: one step and one day at a time. Today, if I can say my despair of my first days in the Program has been replaced with hope and faith, I can also say I'm moving where I need to move - forward. And our common journey continues. Step by step. - Chris, M., 2015
Nov. 7, 2015 - Readings in Recovery: Twenty-Four Hours a Day
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| The Serenity Prayer |
Saturday, Nov. 7, 2015
AA Thought for the Day
I have lost many of my resentments. I have found that getting even with people doesn't do any good. When we try to get revenge, instead of making us feel better, it leaves us frustrated and cheated. Instead of punishing our enemies, we've only hurt our own peace of mind. It does not pay to nurse a grudge, it hurts us more than anyone else. Hate causes frustration, inner conflict and neurosis. If we give out hate, we will become hateful. If we are resentful, we will be resented. If we do not like people, we will not be liked by people. Revengefulness is a powerful poison in our systems.
Have I lost my resentments?
Meditation for the Day
It is not so much you, as the grace of God that is in you, that helps those around you. If you would help even those you dislike, you have to see that there is nothing in you to block the way, to keep God's grace from using you. Your own pride and selfishness are the greatest blocks. Keep those out of the way and God's grace will flow through you into the lives of others. Then all who come in contact with you can be helped in some way. Keep the channel open, free from those things that make your life futile and ineffective.
Prayer for the Day
I pray that all who come in contact with me will feel better for it. I pray that I may be careful not to harbor those things in my heart that put people off.
Hazelden Foundation
Nov. 7, 2015 - Readings in Recovery: A Day at a Time
Saturday, Nov. 7, 2015
Reflection for the Day
There are those in The Program who, at the beginning, shun meditation and prayer as they would avoid a pit filled with rattlesnakes. When they do finally take the first tentative and experimental step, however, and unexpected things begin to take place, they begin to feel different. Invariably, such tentative beginnings lead to true belief, to the extent that those who once belittled prayer and meditation become nothing less than walking advertisements for its rewards. We hear in The Program that "almost the only scoffers at prayer are those who never really tried it."
Is there an obstinate part of me that still scoffs?
Today I Pray
May I learn, however irreverent I have been, that prayer is not to be mocked; I see the power of prayer effecting miracles around me, and I wonder. If I have refused to pray, may I look to see if pride is in my way - that old pride that insists on doing things on its own. Now that I have found a place for prayer in my life, may I reserve that place - religiously.
Today I Will Remember
Whoever learns to pray keeps on praying.
Hazelden Foundation
Nov. 7, 2015 - Readings in Recovery: The Eye Opener
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| The Serenity Prayer |
Saturday, Nov. 7, 2015
Every one of us alcoholics arrived at the point where we felt that all was lost. If we had not felt this way, we would never have confessed that our lives were unmanageable. It was a stupendous admission for us and would never have happened except for the desperation that engulfed us.
Our lives had been totally wrecked, it is true, yet God has never yet failed to give man a second chance. Don't muff it!
Hazelden Foundation
Friday, November 6, 2015
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