Each Day a New Beginning <!--031626-->
True intimacy with another human being can only be experienced when you have found true peace within yourself. —Angela L. Wozniak— Intimacy means disclosure–full expression of ourselves to another person. Nothing held back. All bared. There are risks, of course: rejection, criticism, perhaps ridicule. But the comfort we feel within is directly proportional to the […]
Promise of a new Day <!--031626-->
Within our dreams and aspirations we find our opportunities. —Sue Atchley Ebaugh— Our dreams invite us to broaden our horizons to reach beyond our present goals. They are much more than whims. They are probably calling us to those opportunities for which our talents have been readied. Most of us need this encouragement to attempt […]
AA Thought for the Day <!--031626-->
Before we decide to quit drinking, most of us have come up against a blank wall. We see that we’re licked, that we have to quit. But we don’t know which way to turn for help. There seems to be no door in that blank wall. A.A. opens the door that leads to sobriety. By […]
Daily Reflections <!--031626-->
AS WE UNDERSTAND HIM My friend suggested what then seemed a novel idea . . . “Why don’t you choose your own conception of God?” That statement hit me hard. It melted the icy intellectual mountain in whose shadow I had lived and shivered many years. I stood in the sunlight at last. It was […]
My Thought for the Day <!--031626-->
💝Rise and Shine Beautiful, Strong and Creative Woman❗…🙋💪💃…Life is Zipping by at such a rapped pace…⏰📅… that we turn our heads and the week or month is over❓…🤦…🤷😳🤪…So before we can do it all over again, maybe we can check-in with ourselves…🤔💁…By asking ourselves,”Am I Being TRUE to Myself ❓”…”Am I saying No when I […]
Keep it Simple <!--031626-->
Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future. —Oscar Wilde… We all change, we learn, and change, and grow. We once made alcohol or other drugs our Higher Power. Perhaps we had other higher powers too—like money, gambling, food, or sex. But, it’s never too late to be in touch with a […]
Daily Reflections <!--031526-->
THE GOD IDEA When we saw others solve their problems by a simple reliance upon the Spirit of the Universe, we had to stop doubting the power of God. Our ideas did not work. But the God idea did. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 52 Like a blind man gradually being restored to sight, I slowly groped […]
Promise of a new Day <!--031526-->
Gold, for the instant, lost its luster in his eyes, for there were countless treasures of the heart which it could never purchase. —Charles Dickens— The mysterious thing about “treasures of the heart” is that they are “countless—boundless, self-renewing, inexhaustible. When we love and are loved, trust and are trusted, this reciprocal relationship gives us […]
Each Day a New Beginning <!--031526-->
Flattery is so necessary to all of us that we flatter one another just to be flattered in return. —Marjorie Bowen— We are all deserving of unconditional love and acceptance. And all the people in our lives, past and present, deserve our unconditional love and acceptance, too. However, it’s doubtful that we either feel it […]
Keep it Simple <!--031526-->
I never loved another person the way I loved myself.—Mae West This sums up how we used to live. We were in love with ourselves. We had to be on center stage. Our self-will ran riot. Recovery pulls us out of that world. We learn to focus on others. We learn to reach out to […]