{"id":77643,"date":"2015-10-25T10:19:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-25T18:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=77643"},"modified":"2015-10-25T10:19:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-25T18:19:00","slug":"just-for-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=77643","title":{"rendered":"Just For Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.nhal-anon.org\/Just4Today.html\">From Al-Anon<\/a>: <\/p>\n<p>Just for today, I will try to live through this day only,<br \/>\n and not tackle my whole life problem<br \/>\n at once. I can do something for twelve hours<br \/>\n that would appall me if I felt that I had to<br \/>\n keep it up for a lifetime. <\/p>\n<p> Just for today, I will be happy. This assumes to<br \/>\n be true what Abraham Lincoln said, that<br \/>\n &#8220;most folks are as happy as they make up<br \/>\n their minds to be.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p> Just for today, I will try to strengthen my mind.<br \/>\n I will study. I will learn something useful.<br \/>\n I will not be a mental loafer. I will read<br \/>\n something that requires effort, thought and<br \/>\n concentration. <\/p>\n<p> Just for today, I will adjust myself to what is,<br \/>\n and not try to adjust everything to my own<br \/>\n desires. I will take my &#8220;luck&#8221; as it comes,<br \/>\n and fit myself to it. <\/p>\n<p> Just for today, I will exercise my soul in three<br \/>\n ways: I will do somebody a good turn, and<br \/>\n not get found out. I will do at least two<br \/>\n things I don&#8217;t want to&#8211;just for exercise.<br \/>\n I will not show anyone that my feelings are<br \/>\n hurt; they may be hurt, but today I will not<br \/>\n show it <\/p>\n<p> Just for today, I will be agreeable. I will look<br \/>\n as well as I can, dress becomingly, talk low,<br \/>\n act courteously, criticize not one bit, not<br \/>\n find fault with anything and not try to improve<br \/>\n or regulate anybody except myself. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Al-Anon: Just for today, I will try to live through this day only, and not tackle my whole life problem at once. I can do something for twelve hours that would appall me if I felt that I had &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=77643\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26369],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-addiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77644,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77643\/revisions\/77644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}