Each day a new Beginning <!--081326-->

Pretty Purple Flowers

Anything forced into manifestation through personal will is always “ill got” and has “ever bad success.”Β  –Florence Scovel Shinn— The main thrust of our recovery is to attune ourselves to God’s will, struggling no longer to impose our own. The pain we’ve endured in past years was often of our own making. We controlled situations […]

Promise of a new Day <!--081326-->

…it is only by labor that thought can be made healthy, and only by thought that labor can be made happy, and the two cannot be separated with impunity. —John Ruskin— We all require a balance of thought and labor, intellectual and muscular effort in our lives, The workout that most of us do doesn’t […]

Daily Reflections <!--081326-->

Butterfly On A Pink Flower

A CLEAN SWEEP . . . . and third, having thus cleaned away the debris of the past, we consider how, with our newfound knowledge of ourselves, we may develop the best possible relations with every human being we know. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS , p. 77 As I face the Eighth Step, everything […]

A.A. Thought for the Day <!--081326-->

Tightly Bunched Bouquet Of Fall Flowers

“We had but two alternatives; one was to go on to the bitter end, blotting out the consciousness of our intolerable situation as best we could, and the other was to accept spiritual help. We became willing to maintain a certain simple attitude toward life. What seemed at first a flimsy reed has proved to […]

My Thought for the Day <!--081326-->

🌈Good Morning to you, Beautiful Woman of this World❗…πŸŒπŸ’ƒ…We are Miracles to be clean and Sober this wonderful morning…πŸ€—πŸ˜ …We have been given a GIFT and we have to give it away keep it❗… πŸŽπŸ‘Ό…Our Higher Power is here for the asking, waiting to shut down the Committee when it starts its session in our […]

Keep it Simple <!--081326-->

Once it[a spoken word] flies out, you can’t catch it. —Russian proverb— We’ve said many mean words. Our words often hurt the people we love. We can never really take back the words. But we’re learning now to speak with care . We know the words have a lot of power. What do we say […]