Daily Reflections <!--082626-->
GIVING IT AWAY Though they knew they must help other alcoholics if they would remain sober, that motive became secondary. It was transcended by the happiness they found in giving themselves to others. Alcoholics Anonymous, p.159 Those words, for me, refer to a transference of power, through which God, as I understand Him, enters my […]
My Thought for the Day <!--082626-->
🌺Hello Sunshine and WELCOME to your Day❗…🌞🤗…When we return to the old thinking and behaviors for quick solutions, things tend not to work out very well …🧠🗣🤦😒…We can be left feeling over-whelmed with guilt, depressed, owing an APOLOGY to OURSELVES or OTHERS…😳😢🤝😦…But when we make the DECISION to do things different and come up to […]
Promise of a new Day <!--082626-->
Life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong people. —Oscar Wilde— Villains get punished and heroes triumph in well-made plays and books. In life it’s not easy to say who’s who; most of us are heroic sometimes and villainous other times. Our lives are an uneven […]
A.A. Thought for the Day <!--082626-->
“If we are still clinging to something that we will not let go, we must sincerely ask God to help us to be willing to let even that go, too. We cannot divide our lives into compartments and keep some for ourselves. We must give all the compartments to God. We must say: ‘My creator, […]
Each day a new Beginning <!--082626-->
A woman who has no way of expressing herself and of realizing herself as a full human has nothing else to turn to but the owning of material things. —Enriqueta Longeaux Vasquez— Each of us struggling with these Twelve Steps is finding self-expression and self-definition. Introspection, coupled with self-revelation through sharing with others, affords us […]
Keep it Simple <!--082626-->
THINK —Alcoholics Anonymous slogan— Now that we’re recovering, our minds are free. We can think. When we are faced with problems or choices, we can do this: Ask, “What is the problem?” Make a list of what we can do to work on the problem. Decide which of the actions on our list might work. […]