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-->
If you attach yourself to one person, you ultimately end up having an unhealthy relationship. —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 […]
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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different. Death comes to everyone, but one mourns alone. —John Berger— What wonderful creatures we human beings are—so alike, and yet so different! We can work together; we have built the pyramids, the Great Wall, the great cathedrals of Europe, the temples of Peru. We can make […]
Each day a new Beginning <!--062326-->
. . . How much bondage and suffering a woman escapes when she takes the liberty of being her own physician of both body and soul. —Elizabeth Cady Stanton— If we listen to ourselves, to the innermost voice of our Spirits, we know that we have the power to heal ourselves. Self-healing begins with making […]
Daily Reflections <!--062326-->
TRUSTING OTHERS But does trust require that we be blind to other people’s motives or, indeed, to our own? Not at all; this would be folly. Most certainly, we should assess the capacity for harm as well as the capability for good in every person that we would trust. Such a private inventory can reveal […]
Keeping it Simple <!--062326-->
Words are sacred, we must use them wisely. . . . They are a gift from God. Burton Pretty-On-Top We use words to bring peace to others. We can use words to tell God and others how much we care. Or we can use words to hurt others. We can curse them and scare them […]
AA Thought for the Day <!--062326-->
No chain is stronger than its weakest link. Likewise, if you fail in the day-by-day program, in all probability it will be your weakest point. Great faith and constant contact with God’s power can help you discover, guard, and undergird your weakest point with a strength not your own. Intelligent faith in God’s power can […]
My Thought for the Day <!--062226-->
🌺 Rise and Shine BEAUTIFUL Sister and welcome to Our Morning❗…🛌👭🌄 … If this was to be our last day on earth, How would we spend IT❓…🌎🤔❓…Do we want to spend it filling ourselves with intolerance, self-pity, anger, jealousy, sorrow or regret❓😤🙄🤢🤬😭…Or would we Rather be LIVING the MOMENT, Fully and Freely❓ Rejoicing each individual […]
Promise of a new Day <!--062226-->
…all humans are frightened of their own solitude. Yet only in solitude can we learn to know ourselves, learn to handle our own eternity of aloneness. —Han Suyin— Being quiet with ourselves lets the inner person surface. Acknowledging the inner voice invites the comfort it can offer. Acknowledging also gifts us with certain guidance needed […]
AA Thought for the Day <!--062226-->
If you have any doubt, just ask any of the older members of the A.A. group, and they will readily tell you that since they turned their lives over to the care of God as they understand Him, many of their problems have been banished into the forgotten yesterdays. When you allow yourself to be […]