Keeping it Simple <!--062426-->

Beauty is gift of God. —Aristotle— In our addiction, we often went after what was ugly in life. Maybe we hung out in bad places. Maybe we saw people’s defects instead of their beauty. Addiction is ugly, painful disease. The worst part of addiction is how it doesn’t let us see beauty in the world. […]

My Thought for the Day <!--062426-->

๐ŸŒป Good morning Sunshine…๐Ÿ™‹๐ŸŒž…AM I LIVING in MY Truth today, or am I hiding in fear of My Secret Doubtsโ“ because I tend to be as sick as they are, if I don’t share them with someone else…๐Ÿค”๐Ÿ˜ฑ/๐Ÿงก๐Ÿคท๐Ÿผโ€โ™€๏ธ…to listen to my inner-self, to sense the peace, instead of the turmoil and be Grateful to my […]

AA Thought for the Day <!--062426-->

Alcohol is our weakness. We suffer from mental conflicts from which we look for escape by drowning our problems in drink. We try through drink to push away from the realities of life. But alcohol does not feed, alcohol does not build, it only borrows from the future and it ultimately destroys. We try to […]

Daily Reflections <!--062426-->

A SPIRITUAL KINDERGARTEN We are only operating a spiritual kindergarten in which people are enabled to get over drinking and find the grace to go on living to better effect. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 95 When I came to A. A., I was run down by the bottle and wanted to lose the obsession […]

Promise of a new Day <!--062426-->

The grand essentials to happiness in this life are having something to do, something to love and something to hope for. —Joseph Addison— focusing attention outside of ourselves on hobbies, on goals, on friends, steadily bathes us with inspiration and enthusiasm for moving forward. And this movement, in turn, rekindles our commitment to all our […]

Each day a new Beginning <!--062426-->

Pretty Purple Flowers

If you attach yourself to one person, you ultimately end up having an unhealthy relationship.ย  —Shirley MacLaine— Needing people in our lives is healthy, human and natural. Needing a single person to love at a very deep level, is also soothing to the soul’s well-being. Love and attachment are not synonymous, however. They are close […]