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Pretty Purple Flowers

In anxiety-provoking situations, many women feel unable to act. They find themselves at a loss to come up with an effective response, or any response at all.ย  —Stanlee Phelps and Nancy Austin— Feeling unable to act is a humiliation, perhaps an embarrassment, and it is habit-forming. Perhaps our inertia is due to our need to […]

Keep it Simple <!--053026-->

One Day at a Time—AA program slogan— One Day at a Time reminds us to live in a sane, natural way. It reminds us we can’t control the past. It reminds us we can’t control the future. We can live only in the present. We have only the moment. We have only today. Before recovery, […]

Daily Reflections <!--053026-->

Butterfly On A Pink Flower

OUR PRIMARY PURPOSE The more A.A. sticks to its primary purpose, the greater will be its helpful influence everywhere. A.A. COMES OF AGE, p. 109 It is with gratitude that I reflect on the early days of our Fellowship and those wise and loving “foresteppers” who proclaimed that we should not be diverted from our […]

My Thought for the Day <!--053026-->

๐Ÿ’ Good morning Sunshineโ— ๐ŸŒž๐Ÿ™‹… Beauty is in the eye of the Beholder..๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘ผ… We have our usual ways to see ourselves, people, places, things, and situations. Most of the time, One ofย  Two ways.ย  FOR US or AGAINST US. Which seems so Black and white…๐Ÿ‘ฅ๐Ÿ‘€… But we have unusual opportunities to use our Program to […]

Promise <!--053026-->

To live in dialogue with another is to live twice. Joys are doubled by exchange and burdens are cut in half. —Wishart— We live in one another’s company for a reason. The talents any one of us are gifted with are most pleasurable when used to benefit many. And each of us is talented in […]

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Tightly Bunched Bouquet Of Fall Flowers

I am part of A.A., one among many, but I am one. I need the A.A. principles for the development of the buried life within me. A.A. may be human in its organization, but it is Divine in its purpose. The purpose is to point me toward God and a better life. Participating in the […]