Sunday, December 27, 2015
Dec. 27, 2015 - Photo gallery: No, this isn't a gay thing
Dec. 27, 2015 - Photo gallery: The best of 2015 in photographs
Dec. 27, 2015 - Photo gallery: 2015 in pictures, from Max Emerson to Gus Kenworthy and his ugly Christmas sweater
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| Olympic skier Gus Kenworthy |
Dec. 27, 2015 - Readings in Recovery: Today's Gift from Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation
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| The Serenity Prayer |
Sunday, Dec. 27, 2015
Today's thought from the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is:
You saved me once, and what is given is always returned. We are in this life to help one another.
-- Carlo Collodi, The Adventures of Pinocchio
As the end of this year approaches, we think about endings and beginnings. This past year brought us both difficulties and happiness, both pain and healing. It has been a year of growth because we are sober.
Let's think about the year that is ending and be thankful for its gifts. We need to take time to rest before the next year begins. We shouldn't worry about what the next year will bring. We can simply know that next year will bring us the chance to help other addicts who still suffer. We have been saved. We are living a new life. Let's be grateful, and let's plan to reach out next year to share the wealth of sobriety. After all, we are in this world to help one another.
Prayer for the Day
Higher Power, remind me each day that I am needed. By living well, staying sober, and helping others through the program of recovery, I am fulfilling an important purpose in life.
Today's Action
When did I last reach out to a newcomer in recovery? Today I will make a plan for how I will share my experience, strength, and hope through the next year to help save someone else's life.
You saved me once, and what is given is always returned. We are in this life to help one another.
-- Carlo Collodi, The Adventures of Pinocchio
As the end of this year approaches, we think about endings and beginnings. This past year brought us both difficulties and happiness, both pain and healing. It has been a year of growth because we are sober.
Let's think about the year that is ending and be thankful for its gifts. We need to take time to rest before the next year begins. We shouldn't worry about what the next year will bring. We can simply know that next year will bring us the chance to help other addicts who still suffer. We have been saved. We are living a new life. Let's be grateful, and let's plan to reach out next year to share the wealth of sobriety. After all, we are in this world to help one another.
Prayer for the Day
Higher Power, remind me each day that I am needed. By living well, staying sober, and helping others through the program of recovery, I am fulfilling an important purpose in life.
Today's Action
When did I last reach out to a newcomer in recovery? Today I will make a plan for how I will share my experience, strength, and hope through the next year to help save someone else's life.
You are reading from the book:
God Grant Me. . . © 2005 by Hazelden Foundation
Dec. 27, 2015 - Readings in Recovery: Step by Step
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| The Serenity Prayer |
Step by Step
Sunday, Dec. 27, 2015
Today, the first word in hopelessness is hope; the first word in helplessness is help; the first word in senselessness is sense; the first word in powerlessness is power. Within insanity is sanity; within fear, fearlessness; within pain, strength; within anger, reconciliation. This is our Program: from hopelessness to hope; from helplessness, help; from senselessness, sense; from powerlessness, power; from insanity, sanity; from fear, courage; from pain, strength; from anger, forgiveness. And from them - recovery. It's that simple. And our common journey continues. Step by step. - Chris M., 2015
Dec. 27, 2015 - Readings in Recovery: Twenty-Four Hours a Day
Sunday, Dec. 27, 2015
AA Thought for the Day
I need the AA principles for the development of the buried life within me, that good life which I had misplaced but which I found again in this fellowship. This life within me is developing slowly but surely, with many setbacks, many mistakes, many failures, but still developing. As long as I stick close to AA, my life will go on developing, and I cannot yet know what it will be, but I know that it will be good. That's all I want to know. It will be good.
Am I thanking God for AA?
Meditation for the Day
Build your life on the firm foundation of true gratitude to God for all His blessings and true humility because of your unworthiness of these blessings. Build the frame of your life out of self-discipline; never let yourself get selfish or lazy or contented with yourself. Build the walls of your life out of service to others, helping them to find the way to live. Build the roof of your life out of prayer and quiet times, waiting for God's guidance from above. Build a garden around your life out of peace of mind and serenity and a sure faith.
Prayer for the Day
I pray that I may build my life on AA principles. I pray that it may be a good building when my work is finished.
Hazelden Foundation
Dec. 27, 2015 - Readings in Recovery: A Day at a Time
Sunday, Dec. 27, 2015
Reflection for the Day
"The central characteristic of the spiritual experience," wrote AA co-founder Bill W., "is that it gives the recipient a new and better motivation out of all proportion to any process or discipline, belief or faith. These experiences cannot make us whole at once; they are a rebirth to a fresh and certain opportunity."
Do I see my assets as God's gifts, which have been in part matched by an increasing willingness on my part to find and do His will for me?
Today I Pray
I pray for the wholeness of purpose that can only come through spiritual experience. No amount of intellectual theory, pep-talking to myself, disciplined deprivation, "doing it for" somebody else can accomplish the same results. May I pray for spiritual enlightenment, not only in order to recover, but for itself.
Today I Will Remember
Total motivation through spiritual wholeness.
Hazelden Foundation
Dec. 27, 2015 - Readings in Recovery: The Eye Opener
Sunday, Dec. 27, 2015
The average person has so much trouble in finding a satisfactory faith simply because the mind has difficulty visualizing a force so powerful as anything but a very complex thing. He thinks he must understand it in order to acquire it and use it.
When we eat a meal, we believe that we shall digest it and that we will be strengthened and sustained by it. Yet few of us know the mysteries of the digestive functions, but we get just as much sustenance from our meals as those who do.
We, therefore, eat our meals on faith, and we would probably ruin our digestion if we tried to figure it out.
Hazelden Foundation
Saturday, December 26, 2015
Dec. 26, 2015 - Photo gallery: 2015 was a very queer year for magazine covers
Dec. 26, 2015 - Readings in Recovery: Today's Gift from Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation
Saturday, Dec. 26, 2015
Today's thought from the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is:
Working today
As we approach a new year, many of us feel fear. We look back on the past and worry about the future. But if we remember we only have today, we can work to make that future better. We have found true friends in our fellowship, and this is a time to be with them.
Am I ensuring a fruitful future by working with all I've got today?
Higher Power, I pray for guidance for today and for freedom from worry about tomorrow.
Working today
As we approach a new year, many of us feel fear. We look back on the past and worry about the future. But if we remember we only have today, we can work to make that future better. We have found true friends in our fellowship, and this is a time to be with them.
Am I ensuring a fruitful future by working with all I've got today?
Higher Power, I pray for guidance for today and for freedom from worry about tomorrow.
You are reading from the book:
Day by Day © 1974, 1998 by Hazelden Foundation
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