Sunday, May 1, 2016
May 1, 2016 - The silence of the Target boycotters is deafening
May 1, 2016 - The differences between American and British men
May 1, 2016 - Men, depression and the politics of blame
May 1, 2016 - The lost art of authentic brotherhood
May 1, 2016 - Editorial: Rescue the Supreme Court from limbo
May 1, 2016 - Readings in Recovery: Today's Gift from Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation
Sunday, May 1, 2016
Today's thought for the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is:
Most of all, let love guide your life . . .
-- Colossians 3:14
Envy of another's good fortune puts distance between us. We forget fortune visits us all, though it's frequently disguised in experiences we dread. Resentments over forgotten appointments or misplaced mementos also result in distances that discourage the growth we deserve.
How different the days will unfold when we greet each person, every experience with a warm heart, the gesture of friendship, and a calm spirit.
With feelings of love guiding our thoughts and grooming our actions, we're certain of finding pleasure in all the tiny crevices of life.
Most of all, let love guide your life . . .
-- Colossians 3:14
Envy of another's good fortune puts distance between us. We forget fortune visits us all, though it's frequently disguised in experiences we dread. Resentments over forgotten appointments or misplaced mementos also result in distances that discourage the growth we deserve.
How different the days will unfold when we greet each person, every experience with a warm heart, the gesture of friendship, and a calm spirit.
With feelings of love guiding our thoughts and grooming our actions, we're certain of finding pleasure in all the tiny crevices of life.
You are reading from the book:
Worthy of Love by Karen Casey. © 1985 by Hazelden Foundation
May 1, 2016 - Readings in Recovery: Step by Step
Sunday, May 1, 2016
Today, not as an alcoholic working to avoid a relapse but as a soberholic embracing the addictive habit of recovery, I will laugh. I can now find the tragic irony of all I have wasted and lost only to be led to this point when I no longer have to drink - because sobriety has replaced my addiction to alcohol. I can laugh for the relief that I now think in terms of wanting sobriety more than fighting an urge or temptation to drink because, now, I don't need the drink or high. I can laugh at myself for realizing I have made my journey away from chronic intoxication so needlessly complicated because I overlooked a simple and basic truth: I want sobriety more than drinking. With that, I can work the steps with less fear, less hesitation, a higher self-esteem - and the hope and faith that my sobriety has progressed to where I need to be: in recovery. And our common journey continues. Step by step. - Chris M., 2016
May 1, 2016 - Readings in Recovery: Twenty-Four Hours a Day
Sunday, May 1, 2016
AA Thought for the Day
The AA program is one of charity because the real meaning of the word "charity" is to care enough about other people to really want to help them. To get the full benefit of the Program, we must try to help other alcoholics. We may try to help somebody and think we have failed, but the seed we have planted may bear fruit some time. We never know the results even a word of ours might have. But the main thing is to have charity for others, a real desire to help them, whether we succeed or not.
Do I have real charity?
Meditation for the Day
All material things, the universe, the world, even our bodies, may be Eternal Thought expressed in time and space. The more the physicists and astronomers reduce matter, the more it becomes a mathematical formula, which is thought. In the final analysis, matter is thought. When Eternal thought expresses itself within the framework of space and time, it becomes matter. Our thoughts, within the box of space and time, cannot know anything first hand except material things. But we can deduce that outside the box of space and time is Eternal Thought, which we can call God.
Prayer for the Day
I pray that I may be a true expression of Eternal Thought. I pray that God's thoughts may work through my thoughts.
Hazelden Foundation
May 1, 2016 - Readings in Recovery: A Day at a Time
Sunday, May 1, 2016
Reflection for the Day
For those of us who have lost our faith, or who have always had to struggle along without it, it's often helpful just to accept - blindly and with no reservations. It's not necessary for us to believe at first; we need not be convinced. If we can only accept, we find ourselves becoming gradually aware of a force for good that's always there to help us.
Have I taken the way of faith?
Today I Pray
May I abandon my need to know the why's and wherefore's of my trust in a Higher Power. May I not intellectualize about faith, since by its nature it precludes analysis. May I know that "head-tripping" was a symptom of my disease, as I strung together - cleverly, I thought - alibi upon excuse upon rationale. May I learn acceptance - and faith will follow.
Today I Will Remember
Faith follows acceptance.
Hazelden Foundation
May 1, 2016 - Readings in Recovery: The Eye Opener
The Eye Opener
Sunday, May 1, 2016
The aim of AA is not Sobriety but Happy Sobriety. The most effective and, incidentally the soberest group, is the happiest group. It is possible that you can't speak at meetings, maybe you are not in a position to "carry the message," but you can and should show your happy sobriety in the radiance of your smile. It is our only advertisement and it should outshine in brilliance the gaudiest of neon sign.
The poor guy still in the gutter isn't interested in your sobriety; he's interested in the price of another drink. He is, however, very much interested in happiness. It's what he has been looking for all his life and thought he could buy by the "fifth."
Hazelden Foundation
The poor guy still in the gutter isn't interested in your sobriety; he's interested in the price of another drink. He is, however, very much interested in happiness. It's what he has been looking for all his life and thought he could buy by the "fifth."
Hazelden Foundation
Saturday, April 30, 2016
April 30, 2016 - Photo gallery: A history of hairy men in pictures
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