Life is or it Isn't!

[majestyjo]

August 29

You are reading from the book Each Day a New Beginning.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. --Helen Keller

The next 24 hours are guaranteed to excite us, to lift us to new levels of understanding, to move us into situations with others where we can offer our unique contributions. All that is asked of us is a willingness to trust that we will be given just what we need at each moment.

We can dare to live, fully, just for today. We can appreciate the extraordinariness of every breath we take, every challenge we encounter. Within each experience is the invitation for us to grow, to reach out to others in caring ways, to discover more fully the women we are capable of being. We must not let a single moment go by unnoticed.

When we withdraw from life, we stunt our growth. We need involvement with others, involvement that perturbs us, humors us, even stresses us. We tap our internal resources only when we have been pushed to our limits, and our participation in life gifts us, daily, with that push. How necessary the push!

None of us will pass this way again. What we see and feel and say today are gone forever. We have so much to regret when we let things slip away, unnoticed or unappreciated.

A special series of events has been planned for me today. I shall not miss it.

[caressa222]

The other day someone appeared surprised when I said that there were not enough hours in a day. I have only had my TV on for about an hour in two days. I haven't even seen Jeopardy which is a daily must and has been before recovery. I had to give it up the first two years of my recovery, so I could make it to a meeting.

My books have been overdue, paid a $6.50 fine yesterday, because I refused to take back a book until I finished it. It was one of my favorite authors too, but the page just didn't always come into focus.

I am trying to get out more.