My Thought for the Day <!--092426-->
🌻 Good morning Sunshine…🙋🌞…AM I LIVING in MY Truth today, or am I hiding in fear of My Secret Doubts❓ because I tend to be as sick as they are, if I don’t share them with someone else…🤔😱/🧡🤷🏼♀️…to listen to my inner-self, to sense the peace, instead of the turmoil and be Grateful to my […]
Daily Reflections <!--092426-->
VIGILANCE We have seen the truth demonstrated again and again: “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 are planning to stop drinking, there must be no reservation of any kind, nor any lurking notion that someday […]
Promise of a new Day <!--092426-->
Happiness is an endowment and not an acquisition. it depends more upon temperament and disposition than environment. —John J. Ingalls— We carry in us the ingredient which assures smooth travels today, if that’s our choice. In our exchange with life, we can project an attitude of gladness or regret. We can be grateful for our […]
A.A. Thought for the Day <!--092326-->
Step Twelve is, “Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.” Note that the basis of our effectiveness in carrying the message to others is the reality of our own spiritual awakening. If we have […]
Promise of a new Day <!--092326-->
…we both want a joy of undeep and unabiding things… —Gwendolyn Brooks— When I can live fully in each moment, I can open myself to beauties that might otherwise escape me entirely. The more attune I am to what is really going on right now, which means unhooking my mind from preoccupation with the past […]
My Thought for the Day <!--092326-->
🦋 Rise and Shine my BEAUTIFUL SISTER❗…🌄🙋👭…What is SERENITY and how can We acquire it❓…🤔😏💐…We know how not to acquire it, and that is by running the show all by ourselves, with our own little plans and designs…🚧🚗📈📉😖…Making our next move in this day without consulting Our HIGHER POWER, pondering our thoughts over and over […]
Each day a new Beginning <!--092326-->
Who will I be today? The “Cosmopolitan” woman, the little girl, the scholar, the mother? Who will I be to answer the needs of others, and yet answer the needs of me? —Deidra Sarault— We wear many hats. One aspect of our maturity is our ability to balance our roles. It’s often quite difficult to […]
Keep it Simple <!--092326-->
. . . he who finds himself loses his misery. —Matthew Arnold— We have lost a lot of misery. In it’s place inside us, a spirit grows. . . as love is added. Especially self-love. In our illness, we came to hate ourselves. It was really our illness we hated. We couldn’t find ourselves. All […]
Daily Reflections <!--092326-->
“I WAS AN EXCEPTION” He [Bill W.] said to me, gently and simply, “Do you think that you are one of us?” ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 413 During my drinking life I was convinced I was an exception. I thought I was beyond petty requirements and had the right to be excused. I never realized that […]
A.A. Thought for the Day <!--092226-->
Step Eight is, “Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.” Step Nine is, “Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.” Making restitution for the wrongs we have done is often very difficult. It […]