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Every child is an artist. The problem is remain an artist once your grow up. —Pablo Picasso— We each have colorful ideas waiting to be shared. We’re alive inside. But do we let this side of us show? Our disease stole much of the child like openness. Many of us were taught that growing up […]
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To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you’re overdoing it. —Josh Jenkins— It’s okay to make mistakes. But we shouldn’t live a life of excuses. We shouldn’t slide over our mistakes; we should learn from them. Excuses keep us part from ourselves and others. People don’t trust us […]
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Not to decide is to decide. —Harvey Cox— We are winners, because everyday we decide to stay sober. Every day we decide to listen to our Higher Power. We win by making active choices. We’ve stopped acting as if we have no choice. Our old way was to us by accident. Not true. We pretend […]
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A baby is God’s opinion that the world should go on. —Carl Sandburg— Recovery, is also God’s opinion that the world should go on. But when we used alcohol and other drugs, there were days when even the sight of a newborn baby couldn’t bring hope into our hearts. We were spiritually dead. We didn’t […]
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Self-pity is one of the most dangerous forms of self-centeredness. It fogs our vision. —Kathy S.— Sometimes we get stuck in our own way of seeing things. We may feel as if everything that happens, happens to us or for us. If it rains, we may think about our ruined picnic and not about the […]
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Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not words.—Alfred Adler— Being sober is an event. Being sober also means movement. We go to meetings. We find and meet with a sponsor. We talk with friends. If we don’t act in these ways were not sober. Our actions also tell us if we’re […]
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May you live all the days of your life. —Jonathan Swift— The truth is, life hard. Accepting this fact will make it easier. Remember how well it worked in Step One? Once we admitted and that we were powerless over alcohol and other drugs, we were given the power to recover. It works the same […]
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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions. —James Russell Lowell— We need to stay fresh in our program. We need to be open to new ideas. We need change. The ways we work the Steps should change for us as the years go by. And as we grow, more of the fog of […]
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A man should never be ashamed to own he was in the wrong.—Jonathan Swift— In the past, we felt a mistake was a crisis. We thought we had a to be perfect. Our old ways was to try to hide our mistakes. We were ashamed. We thought making mistakes meant we were bad. Mistakes are […]
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Just Say No. —Nancy Reagan— We addicts were great at saying no. Our spouse asked us to help around the house and we said no and went drinking. Friends tried to care, but we said, “No, mind your own business!” Our parents or our kids begged us to stop drinking, but we said no. We […]