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bluidkiti · 01-30-2023, 05:30 AM

Janjuary 30

What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness.

~Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Thinking lovely thoughts during recovery encourages lovely acts. It is true that what starts as lovely will produce an air of loveliness around those of us who work for spiritual things. Truth has a relationship with lovely deeds. John Keats wrote that "beauty is truth and truth beauty," and also gave us the familiar words, "A thing of beauty is a joy forever."

Our thoughts determine the way we behave and shape the personal image that we pass on to those around us. There is an "outer show of an inner glow" that results from kindness and beauty of mind. Unhealthy thoughts or false fronts are destructive. We are what we think we can be and want to be. If we recognize the best and most healthy in the world around us, we will be worthy of the honest image others have of us.

Let me think only the best thoughts so that I might be the best I can be.

Today's reading is from the book Easy Does It: A Book of Daily Twelve Step Meditations*

01-30-2023, 05:30 AM	#30
bluidkiti Administrator Join Date: Aug 2013 Posts: 75,920	Janjuary 30 What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness. ~Thomas Bailey Aldrich Thinking lovely thoughts during recovery encourages lovely acts. It is true that what starts as lovely will produce an air of loveliness around those of us who work for spiritual things. Truth has a relationship with lovely deeds. John Keats wrote that "beauty is truth and truth beauty," and also gave us the familiar words, "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." Our thoughts determine the way we behave and shape the personal image that we pass on to those around us. There is an "outer show of an inner glow" that results from kindness and beauty of mind. Unhealthy thoughts or false fronts are destructive. We are what we think we can be and want to be. If we recognize the best and most healthy in the world around us, we will be worthy of the honest image others have of us. Let me think only the best thoughts so that I might be the best I can be. Today's reading is from the book Easy Does It: A Book of Daily Twelve Step Meditations* __________________ "No matter what you have done up to this moment, you get 24 brand-new hours to spend every single day." --Brian Tracy AA gives us an opportunity to recreate ourselves, with God's help, one day at a time. --Rufus K. When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. --Franklin D. Roosevelt We stay sober and clean together - one day at a time! God says that each of us is worth loving.