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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 […]
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We never thought we could get old.—Bob Dylan— Here we are no longer children. Yet we’re not quite grown up either. At least, we don’t always feels grown up. Our program helps us accept the stages of our life. And the child in our heart is getting happier. In some ways, we feel younger everyday. […]
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If you do not tell the truth about yourself, you cannot tell it about other people. —Virginia Woolf— Working the Twelve Steps helps us learn the truth. As we struggle with Step Four, we learn the truth about ourselves. We learn even more about ourselves by doing Steps Eight and Ten. When we admit the […]
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Love thy neighbor as thyself, but choose your neighbor. —Louise Beal— In our program, we learn a lot about loving ourselves. Then we start to see how this helps us love our neighbors. We learn to love ourselves honestly, seeing our strengths and our weaknesses. We learn to see others honestly. We learn how much […]
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It is often easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them—Adlai Stevenson— It easy to talk about our values. But when the clerk at the store gives extra change my mistake, those values get put to the test. It feels good to read about spirituality in a comfortable chair at home. […]
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That which is called firmness “I a king” is called stubbornness in a donkey. —Lord Erskine— “Rigid” is a fancy word for “stubborn.” We act this way because of our fear. When we’re afraid, we hang on to what we’re used to doing. Our illness had us so scared, we were afraid of the new […]