Feb. 18, 2023 - Readings in Recovery: Twenty-Four Hours a Day

 

Twenty-Four Hours a Day

Saturday, Feb. 18, 2023

AA Thought for the Day

After I became an alcoholic, alcohol poisoned my love for my family and friends, it poisoned my ambition, it poisoned my self-respect. It poisoned my whole life, until I met AA. My life is happier now than it has been for a long time. I don’t want to commit suicide. So with the help of God and AA, I’m not going to take any more of that alcoholic poison into my system. And I’m going to keep training my mind never even to think of liquor again in any way except as a poison.

Do I  believe that liquor will poison my life if I ever touch it again?

Meditation for the Day

I will link up my frail nature with the limitless Divine Power. I will link my life with the Divine Force for Good to the world. It is not the passionate appeal that gains the Divine attention as much as the quiet placing of the difficulty and worry in the Divine Hands. So I will trust God like a child who places its tangled skein of wool in the hands of a loving mother to unravel. We please God more by our unquestioning confidence than by imploring Him for help.

Prayer for the Day

I pray that I may put all my difficulties in God’s hands and leave them there. I pray that I may fully trust God to take care of them.

Hazelden Foundation

Sept. 14, 2022 - Readings in Recovery: Today's Gift from Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation

 

Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2022

Today’s Gift from Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is:

With a little effort, assets can be enhanced.

When we prepare to work our first Fourth Step we shudder, certain we’ll fail to discover a single asset. It’s okay to ask other people how they did a Fourth Step and what assets they recognize in us. Getting over the resistance to doing this Step is what’s important at this stage of our growth. We all have assets. Maybe they don’t seem as numerous as our liabilities, but we can identify our assets and work to accentuate them each day.

It’s easy to take other people’s inventories, easier than taking our own. We had taken lots of inventories before discovering a Twelve Step program. But now we need to focus exclusively on our own inventory. We can’t expect to change in ways that enhance our well-being if we don’t give careful attention to all our parts. While it’s true that some of our parts may be enviable already, other parts may need work. We can add them to the “enviable” list by practicing healthy ways of interacting every time we are tempted to be critical of others.

It becomes a challenge, one that we’ll enjoy, when we decide to emphasize our assets, watching how they change our lives.

I will accentuate my positives today and have a lot more fun.

Hazelden Foundation