Daily Reflections <!--092924-->
EXACTLY ALIKE Frequent contact with newcomers and with each other is the bright spot of our lives. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 89 A man came to the meeting drunk, interrupted the speakers, stood up and took his shirt off, staggered loudly back and forth for coffee, demanded to talk, and eventually called the group’s secretary an […]
Keep it Simple <!--092924-->
Al didn’t smile for forty years. You’ve got to admire a man like that. — From the TV show, “Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman”— Remember how we used to live? We were always trying to cover up some lie or mistake. We were all like Al. Our energy was going into our illness, not into living. […]
Keep it Simple <!--092824-->
Keep coming back.. it works if you work it. Fortitude a popular self-help book noted that there is tremendous power in repetition…. like the tap-tap-tap of a hammer that finally drives the nail through a board. AA works in much the same way; attendance at meetings is the steady tap-tap-tap that helps bring about lasting […]
Promise of a new Day <!--092824-->
Honor: what a spiky, uncomfortable thing it can be. I expect the young are wise to be dropping it. —Rose macaulay— Each generation looks at its children with mangled pride and horror and thinks they are destroying standards, overturning values, and generally going to wrack and ruin. In Greece, in the fourth century B.C., Plato […]
Each day a new Beginning <!--092824-->
I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome. —Golda Meir— Living a principled life is what the inner self desires. It’s what God desires. And it’s […]
A.A. Thought for the Day <!--092824-->
For the past two months we have been studying passages and steps from the Big Book. Now why not read the book itself again? It is essential that the A.A. program become part of us. We must have its essentials at our finger tips. We cannot study the big book too much or too often. […]
My Thought for the Day <!--092824-->
🌺 Good morning to you Lovely LADY and Fabulous Friend ❗ 🌅👭…What a Beautiful day We Are in, for as long as we have no expectations and leave our fears far behind us, The sun will shine no matter what…🌈🌞…But when we get caught up in our expectations of people, places, things and situations…they are […]
Daily Reflections <!--092824-->
LOVE WITHOUT STRINGS Practical experience shows that nothing will so much insure immunity from drinking as intensive work with other alcoholics. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 89 Sponsorship held two surprises for me. First, that my sponsees cared about me. What I had thought was gratitude was more like love. They wanted me to be happy, to […]
My Thought for the Day <!--092724-->
🌺Welcome to Your Morning Sunshine❗…🌞🙋…The Mind can be a Beautiful Place, full of Creativity, imagination, Positivity and miraculous outlooks to help us see the world as a simplistic realm of Possibilities…👩🎓👩🏫🎸🏅…Or it can be the hell-hole we create in an instance…🙂🧠🤺😈🔥 …Thinking to ourselves, “I don’t remember turning into this DARK ALLEY!!” …🚗🚦🌃=👹… Fortunately for […]
A.A. Thought for the Day <!--092724-->
Continuing the consideration of the term “spiritual experience”: “What often takes place in a few months could seldom have been accomplished by years of self-discipline. With few exceptions, our members find that they have tapped an unsuspected inner resource which they presently identify with their own conception of a Power greater than themselves. Most of […]