Each day a new Beginning <!--092524-->
…we do not always like what is good for us in this world. —Eleanor Roosevelt— Most of us can look back and recall how we fought a particular change. How certain we were that we wouldn’t survive the upheaval! Perhaps we lost a love or were forced to leave a home or a job. Retrospect […]
My Thought for the Day <!--092524-->
💐 Good morning Sunshine❗ 🌞🙋… Beauty is in the eye of the Beholder..👁👼… We have our usual ways to see ourselves, people, places, things, and situations. Most of the time, One of Two ways. FOR US or AGAINST US. Which seems so Black and white…👥👀… But we have unusual opportunities to use our Program to […]
Daily Reflections <!--092524-->
FIRST THINGS FIRST Some of us have taken very hard knocks to learn this truth: Job or no job — wife or no wife — we simply do not stop drinking so long as we place dependence upon other people ahead of dependence on God. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 98 Before coming to A.A., I always […]
Keep it Simple <!--092524-->
Martyrs set bad examples… —David Russell— Sometimes we call people “martyrs.” We sometimes think of them as victims. They suffer, but sometimes not for a cause. They play “poor me.” They want people to notice how much they suffer. They are afraid to really live. These are the people who set bad examples. True martyrs […]
A.A. Thought for the Day <!--092524-->
Let us consider the term “spiritual experience” as given in Appendix II of the Big Book: “A spiritual experience is something that brings about a personality change. By surrendering our lives to God as we understand Him, we are changed. The nature of this change is evident in recovered alcoholics. This personality change is not […]
Promise of a new Day <!--092524-->
Old things were stirring: the old illness of remembering was going to start again. —Rosamond Lehmann— Does the act of remembering ever resemble an illness? Yes, if it causes pain. For many of us, memories of our past behavior seem to live in cages, like wild animals; if we enter the cages, the beasts attack […]
A.A. Thought for the Day <!--092424-->
Let us continue with Step Twelve. We must practice these principles in all our affairs. This part of the twelfth step must not be overlooked. It is the carrying on of the whole program. We do not just practice these principles in regard to our drinking problem. We practice them in ALL our affairs. We […]
Each day a new Beginning <!--092424-->
Woman must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression. —Margaret Sanger— Let us not stifle ourselves any longer. Let us dare to dream and realize those dreams. Let us dare to take risks, having faith that to advance in […]
Keep it Simple <!--092424-->
To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. —Will Durant— Sometimes we say bad things about others. When we do this, it makes us look bad too. Our friends worry what we might say about them behind their backs. They’re afraid to trust us. We become known as gossips. The things […]
Daily Reflections <!--092424-->
VIGILANCE We have seen the truth demonstrated again and again: “Once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic.” Commencing to drink after a period of sobriety, we are in a short time as bad as ever. If we are planning to stop drinking, there must be no reservation of any kind, nor any lurking notion that someday […]