Promise of a New Day <!--040526-->
If you would be loved, love and be lovable. —Benjamin Franklin— We all desire to be loved. Our common human characteristic is our need to count in someone else’s life. At least one other person needs us, we tell ourselves, when we feel least able to accept life’s demands. How alike we all are. The […]
Thought For The Day <!--040526-->
People often ask what makes the A.A. program work. One of the answers is that A.A. works because it gets people away from themselves as the center of the universe. And it teaches them to rely more on the fellowship of others and on strength from God. Forgetting ourselves in fellowship, prayer, and working with […]
New Beginnings <!--040526-->
I came to the conclusion then that “continual mindfulness”. . . must mean, not a sergeant-major-like drilling of thoughts, but a continual readiness to look and readiness to accept whatever came. —Joanna Field— Resistance to the events, the situations, the many people who come into our lives blocks the growth we are offered every day. […]
Daily Reflections <!--040526-->
TRUE BROTHERHOOD We have not once sought to be one in a family, to be a friend among friends, to be a worker among workers, to be a useful member of society. Always we tried to struggle to the top of the heap, or to hide underneath it. This self-centered behavior blocked a partnership relation […]
Keep It Simple <!--040526-->
Go outside, to the fields, enjoy nature and the sunshine, go out and try to recapture happiness in yourself and in God. —Anne Frank— Many of us look at the joy and beauty of the program with caution. It was different from our addictive joy. Was it to be trusted? When we started working the […]
My Thought for the Day <!--040426-->
🌺 Hello Creative Bright Light in this world❗…🙋♀️💡🌎…we can get caught up in the fear trap, all in knot’s about the unknown…🤦♀️🥨😳😭…That We cannot be useful to our HIGHER POWER, let alone Ourselves or others…😱.😡👎👨👩👧👦…So how can we get rid of this boogeyman that robs us of our SERENITY and JOY❓…🤔,🙆♀️🔫👾…maybe, when we find ourselves […]
Daily Reflections <!--040426-->
CRYING FOR THE MOON “This very real feeling of inferiority is magnified by his childish sensitivity and it is this state of affairs which generates in him that insatiable, abnormal craving for self-approval and success in the eyes of the world. Still a child, he cries for the moon. And the moon, it seems, won’t […]
Thought For The Day <!--040426-->
When I came into A.A., I found men and women who had been through the same things I had been through. But now they were thinking more about how they could help others than they were about themselves. They were a lot more unselfish than I ever was. By coming to meetings and associating with […]
Promise <!--040426-->
He was the victim of his own rage… —Paule Marshall— Our negative behavior always turns on us. So does our positive behavior. Obviously, it’s better to have joy and peace rebound on us than violence. Then why don’t we consistently act peaceful and joyous? It probably takes an idiot or a saint to be consistently […]
New Beginnings <!--040426-->
All we are asked to bear we can bear. That is a law of the spiritual life. The only hindrance to the working of this law, as of all benign laws, is fear. —Elizabeth Goudge— There is no problem too difficult to handle with all the help available to us. Let’s not be overwhelmed. The […]