Children are surely one of God’s greatest gifts and truest challenges. To share your life with a child is to humble yourself so that you may learn from them and discover with them the beautiful secrets that are only uncovered in searching. —Kathleen Tierney Crilly— Humility accompanies every experience wherein we let ourselves fully listen to others, to learn from them, to be changed by their words, their presence. Each opportunity we take to be fully present to another person, totally with them in mind and spirit, will bless us while it blesses them. Offering and receiving the gift of genuine attention is basic to the emotional growth of every human being. Before recovering, many of us so suffered from obsessive self-centered pity that we seldom noted the real needs or pain of the people close to us. We closed ourselves off, wallowing in our own selfish worries, and our growth was stunted. Some days we still wallow. But a new day has dawned. The Steps offer us new understanding. They are helping us look beyond ourselves to all the “children of God” in our daily lives. From each of them we have many secrets to learn. I will be joyous today. Many secrets about life are mine to learn if I will stay close to all the people who cross my path. I will be mindful they are there because they have something to give me. I will be ready to receive it.
Our Folded Hands
Women helping Women. Reaching out to the Sister who still suffers. Helping each other through the Good times and the Difficult times. To get to the SOBER way of life, One Day at a Time.
Daily Readings And Meditations
New Beginnings
Reflections
LOVE AND TOLERANCE Love and tolerance of others in our code. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 84 I have found that I have to forgive others in all situations to maintain any real spiritual progress. The vital importance of forgiving may not be obvious to me at first sight, but my studies tell me that every great spiritual teacher has insisted strongly upon it. I must forgive injuries, not just in words, or as a matter of form, but in my heart. I do this not for the other persons’ sake, but for my own sake. Resentment, anger, or a desire to see someone punished, are things that rot my soul. Such things fasten my troubles to me with chains. They tie me to other problems that have nothing to do with my original problem.
Promise
If our species does destroy itself it will be a death in the cradle—a case of infant mortality.—Jonathan Schell— Compared to rocks or to termites or ginkgo trees, our whole species is a very recent passenger on this Spaceship Earth. We’ve had a busy time of it, for the few thousand years that there have been enough of us to make a difference. But in time as geologists measure it we have barely entered the history of the planet. If we eradicated ourselves with the lethal means at our disposal, we wouldn’t be the first species to disappear. But wouldn’t it be a shame? We humans have the capacity for transcendence as well as destruction. Surely we’re adaptable enough to guide our own development away from our current preoccupation with deadly toys. Written history gives us just a tiny glimpse of life on earth. Let’s live so as to guarantee that human existence lasts out its full chapter. I am one of the earth’s children. I will treat my parent with respect.
Keep It Simple
With each sunrise, we start anew. —Anonymous— Like a tree, our life depends on new growth. There are many ways to bring new ideas and growth into our lives. We can attend Twelve Step retreats. We can study books and tapes on spirituality. We can attend different Twelve Step meetings. But our spiritual newness may not just come from the Twelve Steps. We can do volunteer work or be active in other types of groups. We need to invite new ideas into our lives. We need to stay open to change. It doesn’t matter what renews our spiritual growth. What matters is that we keep our spiritual lives fresh and growing. Prayer for the Day: Higher Power, spring is one of the four seasons. Help me feel like spring. Help me to be strong but not stuck Help me be firm yet open to spiritual growth. Action for the Day: Today, I’ll try to do something new. When I get stuck or stubborn, I’ll see that it’s due to my fear of trying new ideas.
Thought For The Day
In A.A. we forget about the future. We know from experience that as time goes on, the future takes care of itself. Everything works out well, as long as we stay sober. All we need to think about is today. When we get up in the morning and see the sun shining in the window, we thank God that He has given us another day to enjoy because we’re sober. A day in which we may have a chance to help somebody. Do I know that this day is all I have and that with God’s help I can stay sober today? Meditation For The Day All is fundamentally well. That does not mean that all is well on the surface of things. But it does mean that God’s in His heaven and that He has a purpose for the world, which will eventually work out when enough human beings are willing to follow His way. “Wearing the world as a loose garment” means not to be upset by the surface wrongness of things, but to feel deeply secure in the fundamental goodness and purpose in the universe. Prayer For The Day I pray that God may be with me in my journey through the world. I pray that I may know that God is planning that journey.
My Thoughts For The Day
🌞 Good Morning Sunshine and Welcome to Our Day❗…💃💪🌅…We have so many possibilities today❗ …But will we choose to see them…😍💖…The choice is up to us. We can open our EYES and really SEE our OPPORTUNITIES to help others. to get outside ourselves and to stop the negative self-talk that plays up in our minds. The majority of what we tell ourselves WE WOULD NEVER SAY TO ANOTHER HUMAN BEING…😱🤬👹…SO WHY DO WE TORTURE AND BEAT OURSELVES UP WITH THESE EMOTIONAL HEAD GAMES…😜🙄…Let us be more GENTLE and POSITIVE with OURSELVES…🦋…So We can Get back to Serenity and PEACE of MIND as quickly as We can… 🌹🕊…For when We are Centered in our HIGHER POWER, We tend to walk with less Noise in my our heads …🐯👼 and this is when We get a Break From the constant CHATTER of the COMMITTEE that seems to gather in our heads frequently …👥🗣🧠…and this often gives us the chance we need to MAKE THAT NEEDED PHONE CALL, PAUSE and PRAY, TALK TO OUR SPONSOR’S…🗣🤳 👩👵 …to take that much needed breath that tells me,”ALL IS WELL❗”…☕🍩YOU ARE FABULOUS AND AMAZING MY SISTERS❗…🤗👭👀💪😇✌💐😊👌🦉🌟🌞☕💋💋💋💄 I LOVE YOU SO VERY MUCH…🙋👩❤️👩 AND YOU ARE NOT ALONE…✨💐…YOU ARE ENOUGH TODAY… 😉