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If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it. โ€”William Arthur Ward— Our dreams and our aspirations are our invitations to set new goals, attempt new tasks, dare to travel uncharted courses. We each have gifts to offer our fellow-travelers, but most frequently need encouragement to […]

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๐ŸŒˆRISE and SHINE, Beautiful, Radiant, Resiliently Wonderful Part of This Fantastic worldโ—…๐Ÿ’ƒ๐ŸŒ…We can sometimes get up and our minds start writing OUR script for the dayโ—…๐Ÿ“๐Ÿ˜ฑ๐Ÿค–…The fears and worries of every tomorrow start to Creep into our every thought and We Become the PLAY WRITER for every POSSIBLE OUTCOMEโ—โ—๐Ÿคฌ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ‘น๐Ÿคค๐Ÿค•๐Ÿค๐Ÿ˜ต๐Ÿ™„๐Ÿค—…Just cause We think it, does not […]

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A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as for the body. โ€”Margaret Fuller— No matter how full our social and professional lives are, we all need a base, a place where we are at home. Whether itโ€™s a studio apartment furnished from secondhand stores and garage […]

Each Day a New Beginnings <!--032926-->

Pretty Purple Flowers

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one’s own values in the person of another.ย  —Ayn Rand— The struggle to love one another may be a daily one for us, and it is made more difficult because we are still stumbling in our attempts at self-love.Many of us have lived our […]

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Before I met A.A. I was very dishonest. I lied to my wife constantly about where I had been and what I’d been doing. I took time off from the office and pretended I’d been sick or gave some other dishonest excuse. I was dishonest with myself, as well as with other people. I would […]

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๐ŸŒบ Good Morning Beautiful, Creatively Talented, Encouraging Lovely Lady โ— …๐Ÿ™‹๐ŸŒˆ๐ŸŒž…Searching to see the Beauty in the world can sometimes seem difficult, “When our eye glasses are dirty!!!”…๐Ÿ‘“๐Ÿ˜ณ…Thank Goodness for Our PROGRAM that teaches us about cleaning the dirt off our lenses…๐Ÿ‘“๐Ÿšฟ๐Ÿ˜„…And How to keep it off, So we can again see the Beauty in […]

Daily Reflections <!--032926-->

TRUSTED SERVANTS They are servants. Theirs is the sometimes thankless privilege of doing the group’s chores. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 134 In Zorba the Greek, Nikos Kazantzakis describes an encounter between his principle character and an old man busily at work planting a tree. “What is it that you are doing?” Zorba asks. […]

Keep It Simple <!--032926-->

Whatever is in the heart will come up to the tongue.—Persian proverb— During our illness, we wouldn’t let people get close to us. We spoke of what was in our heart. And much of what filled our heart was sadness, anger, and hopelessness. Those who want to be close to us heard what was in […]

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God is not a cosmic bellboy. —Harry Emerson Fosdick— We have to laugh when we look back at the times we treated God like our servant. Who did we think we were, ordering God to do something for us? But we got away with it. God even did some of the things we asked. Now […]

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Tightly Bunched Bouquet Of Fall Flowers

When you come into an A.A. meeting, you’re not just coming into a meeting, you’re coming into a new life. I’m always impressed by the change I see in people after they’ve been in A.A. for a while. I sometimes take an inventory of myself, to see whether I have changed and if so, in […]