Keep it Simple <!--021026-->
Life didn’t promise to be wonderful. —Teddy Pendergrass— Life doesn’t promise us anything, except a chance. We have a chance to live any way we like. No matter how we choose to live, we’ll have pain and we’ll have joy. And we can learn from both. Because of our recovery program, we can have life’s […]
Keep it Simple <!--020926-->
H.A.L.T. —AA Slogan… H.A.L.T. stands for Hungry, Angry, Lonely, and Tired. These feelings can be danger to us. They can lead us away from our program. We need to eat regular meals. When we get too hungry, we get cranky. Then we say and do things we regret. We need to turn anger over to […]
My Thought for the Day <!--020926-->
🌺 Good Morning Beautiful, Creatively Talented Lady ❗ …🙋🌈🌞…Searching to see the Beauty in the world can sometimes seem difficult, “When our eye glasses are dirty❗❓”…🕶😳…Thank Goodness for Our PROGRAM that teaches us about cleaning the dirt off our lenses…👓🚿😄…And How to keep it off, So we can again see the Beauty in the World, […]
Promise of a new Day <!--020926-->
Imagine there’s no country. It isn’t hard to do. Nothing to kill or die for. And no religion, too. —John Lennon… If we let go of all conventions of life as we know it—the laws, religions, customs, and other institutions—we could train our imagination to build new ones, perhaps based on different values of work […]
Daily Reflections <!--020926-->
GETTING THE “SPIRITUAL ANGLE” How often do we sit in AA meetings and hear the speaker declare, “But I haven’t yet got the spiritual angle.” Prior to this statement, he had described a miracle of transformation which had occurred in him — not only his release from alcohol, but a complete change in his whole […]
AA Thought for the Day <!--020926-->
In the past, we kept right on drinking in spite of all the trouble we got into. We were foolish enough to believe that drinking could still be fun in spite of everything that happened to us. When we came into A.A., we found a lot of people who, like ourselves, had had fun with […]
Each Day a New Beginning <!--020926-->
We have seen too much defeatism, too much pessimism, too much of a negative approach. The answer is simple: if you want something very badly, you can achieve it. It may take patience, very hard work, a real struggle, and a long time; but it can be done…faith is a prerequisite of any undertaking. […]
AA Thought for the Day <!--020826-->
When the morning sun comes up on a nice bright day and we jump out of bed, we’re thankful to God that we feel well and happy instead of sick and disgusted. Serenity and happiness have become much more important to us than the excitement of drinking, which lifts us up for a short while, […]
Each Day a New Beginning <!--020826-->
Reaction isn’t action–that is, it isn’t truly creative. —Elizabeth Janeway— We must learn how to act rather than react. Unfortunately, we’ve had lots of training at reacting. And we’re all such good imitators. We are a society of reactors. We let the good or the bad behavior of another person determine our own behavior as […]
Keep it Simple <!--020826-->
You must find the ideas that have some promise in them…it’s not enough to just have ideas. —George E. Woodberry… Each day we’re flooded with ideas. Everyone seems to have found the truth, and now they want to share it. We may feel loaded down with all these ideas. Who and what do we believe? […]