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Each day a new Beginning

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin into his nest again, I shall not live in vain. —Emily Dickinson.— The gift of attention to each other is “passing on” the love […]

Promise of a new Day

Our ordinary minds try to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is interests only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge only of something much better: that we can become oak trees. —E.F. Schumacher— Most of us struggle […]

AA Thought for the Day

After we had sobered up through the A.A. program, we gradually began to get a peace of mind and serenity which we never thought were possible. This peace of mind is based on a feeling that fundamentally all is well. That does not mean that all is well on the surface of things. Little things […]

Daily Reflections

PRIDE For thousands of years we have been demanding more than our share of security, prestige, and romance. When we seemed to be succeeding, we drank to dream still greater dreams. When we were frustrated, even in part, we drank for oblivion. Never was there enough of what we thought we wanted. In all these […]

Keep it Simple

Let there be spaces in your togetherness. —Kahil Gilran— We all need time alone. Then we can get to know our Higher Power better too. When we were using chemicals, we were afraid of being alone. We didn’t want to think too much. So we got high. Now we know we’re never totally alone. Our […]

My Thought for the Day

💜 Hello Resiliently, Strong, Fabulous SISTER❗…👋👭💪… What a wonderful day to be all I can be…🌈💃…When we start to discover that we can Be who God has Created Us to Be, and Look into our innermost selves, that we have HOPE of discovering our TRUE Talents…🤸‍♀️🤹‍♀️👩‍🏫…and that even though Life is unfolding right before me, […]

Daily Reflections

A NOURISHING INGREDIENT, p.204 Where humility had formerly stood for a forced feeding on humble pie it now begins to mean the nourishing ingredient which can give us serenity. 12 & 12, p.74 How often do I focus on my problems and frustrations? When I am having a good day these same problems shrink in […]

Keep it Simple

Most of the evils of life arise from man’s being unable to sit still in a room. —Blaise Pascal— Our program teaches us to slow down. We learn to slow down by taking time out. During these times-outs, we look at our values and see if we’re staying true to them. Because of that, meditation […]

Each day a New Beginning

Through spontaneity we are reformed into ourselves. Freed from handed-down frames of reference, spontaneity becomes the moment of personal freedom when we are faced with a reality, explore it, and act accordingly. —Viola Spolin— Living in the here and the now opens up untold possibilities for new growth. Our inner self is enticed in new […]

AA Thought for the Day

One of the best things about the A.A. program is the peace of mind and serenity that it can bring us. In our drinking days, we had no peace of mind or serenity. We had the exact opposite, a kind of turmoil and that “quiet desperation” we knew so well. The turmoil of our drinking […]