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. […]
Each day a new Beginning <!--082526-->
In soloing–as in other activities–it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it. —Amelia Earhart— Procrastination plagues us all, at one time or another. But any activity that is worthy of our effort should be tackled by bits and pieces, one day at a time. We are too easily overwhelmed when […]
A.A. Thought for the Day <!--082526-->
“Unless we discuss our defects with another person, we do not acquire enough humility, fearlessness, and honesty to really get the program. We must be entirely honest with somebody, if we expect to live happily in this world. We must be hard on ourselves, but always considerate of others. We pocket our pride and go […]
Keep it Simple <!--082526-->
In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play. —Friedrick Nietzsche— All of us have a child inside. We may see that child as a friend or as a enemy. Many of us were taught that growing up meant doing away with our inner child. It was as if being a child […]
Daily Reflections <!--082526-->
THE GIFT OF BONDING Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do Thy will. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS , p. 63 Many times in my alcoholic state, I drank to establish a bond between myself and others, but I succeeded only in establishing the bondage of alcoholic loneliness. Through the A.A. way of […]
Promise of a new Day <!--082526-->
…The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances —Martha Washington— A light heart eases a hard struggle. A sense of humor takes the sting out of troubling circumstances. Likewise, a hateful attitude takes the luster out of the brightest moments. We have the power to control the […]