Keep it Simple <!--081526-->
We know what we are, but know not what we may be. —Shakespeare— We are addicts. We suffer from an illness. We go to Twelve Step meetings because we know who we are. We have a sponsor because we know who we are. We ask friends for support because we know who we are. We […]
My Thought for the Day <!--081526-->
💐…Good morning to You Beautiful Woman, Strong and AMAZING❗…💪💃…So Exhilarated to greet another day with enthusiasm and GRACE. When the tornado comes, and the flood of feelings rush in…🌊🌪….Today We do have the Courage to Change the things We can… 😍😇🙌…If We Can not change the way We feel about certain people, places, things and […]
Promise of a new Day <!--081526-->
If politics may be broadly defined as “the way we are with each other” then anything that affects the way we connect with each other is political. —Phyllis Jane Rose— There’s a word for someone who is democratic with strangers and despotic with intimates, and the word is hypocrite. One of the important lessons of […]
Each day a new Beginning <!--081526-->
Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure. —Simone Weil— How terribly complicated we choose to make life’s many questions. Should we call a friend and apologize or wait for her call? Are the children getting the kind of care they must, right now? That we “Came to believe in a […]
A.A. Thought for the Day <!--081526-->
“Once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic. Commencing to drink after a period of sobriety, we are in a short time as bad as ever. If we have admitted we are alcoholics, we must have no reservations of any kind, nor any lurking notion that some day we will be immune to alcohol. What sort of […]
Daily Reflections <!--081526-->
DIDN’T WE HURT ANYBODY? Some of us, though, tripped over a very different snag. We clung to the claim that when drinking we never hurt anybody but ourselves. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS , p. 79 This Step seemed so simple. I identified several people whom I had harmed, but they were no longer available. […]