Keep It Simple <!--050326-->
When I have listened to my mistakes, I have grown. —Hugh Prather— Everyone makes mistakes. We all know that. So why is it so hard to admit our own? We seem to think we have to be prefect. We have a hard time looking at our mistakes. But our mistakes can be very good teachers. […]
Thought For The Day <!--050326-->
A.A. teaches us to take it easy. We learn how to relax and to stop worrying about the past or the future, to give up our resentments and hates and tempers, to stop being critical of people, and to try to help them instead. That’s what “Easy Does It” means. So in the time that’s […]
Daily Reflections <!--050326-->
CLEANING HOUSE Somehow, being alone with God doesn’t seem as embarrassing as facing up to another person. Until we actually sit down and talk aloud about what we have so long hidden, our willingness to clean house is still largely theoretical. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p 60 It wasn’t unusual for me to talk […]
My Thought for the Day <!--050226-->
🌷Good Morning Great and Wonderful Sister!!!…ðŸ‘💖…God is doing for us what we cannot do for ourselves…✨👼…Sometimes we can get stuck in fear, anger, depression and guilt…😵ðŸ˜ðŸ¤¬ðŸ˜³…and we can try to stay hidden in the darkest alley in our minds, with no true direction… 🌃👣…But we have a PROGRAM that reminds us of our Direction…↗🌞💯…And that […]
Thought For The Day <!--050226-->
In A.A. we often hear the slogan “Easy Does It.” Alcoholics always do everything to excess. They drink too much. They worry too much. They have too many resentments. They hurt themselves physically and mentally by too much of everything. So when they come into A.A., they have to learn to take it easy. None […]
Keep It Simple <!--050226-->
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. ––Eleanor Roosevelt— Most of us want to be happy. We just don’t know how. We aren’t sure what happiness is. We’ve learned the hard way that some things we wanted didn’t make us happy. We’re learning that happiness comes when we live the way our Higher […]
Promise of a New Day <!--050226-->
Resolve to be thyself and know that he who finds himself loses his misery. —Matthew Arnold— How confusing the issues in our lives can be when we try to accommodate all the views of the persons in our midst, persons who share few opinions in common. Agreeing with first one and then another is dizzying, […]
Each Day a New Beginnings <!--050226-->
One must be leery of words because they turn into cages. —Viola Spolin— We Defeat ourselves with labels. We hem ourselves in; we shorten our vision; we cut off opportunities in the making. We influence how others think of us, too. Someone wise said that we teach others how to teach us. Are we teaching […]
Daily Reflections <!--050226-->
LIGHTING THE DARK PAST Cling to the thought that, in God’s hands, the dark past is the greatest possession you have – the key to life and happiness for others. With it you can avert death and misery for them. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p 124 No longer is my past an autobiography; it is a reference […]
Keep it Simple <!--050126-->
Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. —Step Five— Step Five can be scary. we’re to take the wrongs we listed in our Fourth Step and share them with God, ourselves, and another person. We may look for an easier, softer way. But Step Five stops […]