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…you don’t get to choose how you’re going to die or when. You can only decide how you’re going to live. Now.—Joan Baez— The responsibility we each are charged with for our individual development is awesome, particularly when we look ahead to our whole life stretching before us. It’s not uncommon to be immobilized with […]
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Having surrendered our lives to God and put our drink problem in His Hands doesn’t mean that we’ll never be tempted to drink. So we must build up strength for the time when temptation will come. In this quiet time, we read and pray and get our minds in the right mood for the day. […]
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The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.—William Hazlitt… Others’ pleasure in our company becomes our pleasure. If we can set aside our self-conscious anxieties and simply enjoy being with others, they will enjoy us. As lovers know, there is no aphrodisiac like a loved one’s desire. When we give one another our full attention, […]
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Better bend than break. —Scottish proverb— Our program is based on bending. We call it “surrender.” We surrender our self-will to the care of God. We do what we believe our Higher Power want us to do. We learn this as an act of love.Many of us believed surrender was a sign of weakness. We […]
My Thought for the Day <!--030426-->
🦋 Good Morning Sunshine!!! 🌄🌹…How Beautiful and vibrant life can be when we are coherent to Live in it…👩❤️ 🌞…We can walk around with an ATTITUDE of, “I must to Do this.” or,” I Have to get this Done,” which can seemingly make us feel as though we are stuck and obligated…😕😤…Ultimately it can lead […]
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WEEDING THE GARDEN The essence of all growth is a willingness to make a change for the better and then an unremitting willingness to shoulder whatever responsibility this entails. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 115 By the time I had reached Step Three I had been freed of my dependence on alcohol, but bitter experience […]
Each Day a New Beginning <!--030426-->
It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end. —Ursula K. LeGuin… Goals give direction to our lives. We need to know who we are and where we want to go. But the trip itself, the steps we travel, offer us daily satisfaction moment […]
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Love is mutually feeding each other, not one living on another like a ghoul. —Bessie Head… Real love is compromise. It’s sharing and taking turns. It’s putting someone else’s best interests first. Love wears many expressions and is demonstrated by many gestures. Offering love to someone, when the offer is genuine, benefits the giver as […]
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But the alcoholic . . . will be absolutely unable to stop drinking on the basis of self-knowledge. Alcoholics Anonymous Our program says three things are more important than knowing ourselves: (1) admitting we have no control over our addiction, (2) believing in a Higher Power, and (3) turning our lives over to the care […]
AA Thought for the Day <!--030326-->
After we’ve made a surrender, the drink problem is out of our hands and in the hands of God. The thing we have to do is to be sure that we never reach out and take the problem back into our own hands. Leave it in God’s hands. Whenever I’m tempted to take a drink, […]