Readings

Yesterday's For Today:
"The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what what is to come." William Hazlitt

"What a waste...
...In OA, I am in today - now, this minute - which is the only reality.
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For today: In OA, I am regaining the capacity for simple enjoyment I once had: to explore, to accept, to trust and delight in present-moment pleasures as a child does."

Today's For Today:

"to say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no meanas death." Jean Anouilh
Ouch. Wow.

"It takes no effort, no risk, no investment of myself to stand back and not participate. There is no chance of being disappointed. Oh yes, I can look on, criticize a little, give advice. not today! Today I choose to shout YES to life, to take whatever comes my way - indeed, to go out of my way. By forgetting myself, I can feel and not be afraid, experience and not regret, make decisions and not worry. I throw old cautions to the wind - some may even call me foolhardy - but I know I am not alone; I have a Higher Power to keep me balanced.

For today: I put aside old habits of negativity so I can experience a new closeness to others, to the present, to myself. I exchange my 'Yes, but' for 'Why not?'"