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Be brave enough to accept the help of others Often is the past, we acted like we didn’t need anyone. It takes courage to let others help us. As we get better, our courage grows. We invite people into our lives. We help others, and we let others help us. We will learn to let […]
Promise of a new Day <!--070726-->
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust? —George Eliot— Becoming fully trustworthy individuals, living up to our own ideals, makes easier the decision to trust others. And when there is trust, intimacy is possible. With intimacy comes self-love, and finally joy. Isolation from others is a choice, one that breeds new levels of insecurity. Familiarity […]
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IDENTIFYING FEAR . . . . The chief activator of our defects has been self – centered fear. . . . . TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 76 When I feel uncomfortable, irritated, or depressed, I look for fear. This “evil and corroding thread” is the root of my distress: Fear of failure; fear […]
AA Thought for the Day <!--070626-->
We tried to study our alcoholic problem, wondering what was the cause of our strange obsession. Many of us took special treatments, hospitalization, even confinement in institutions. In every case, the relief was only temporary. We tried through crazy excuses to convince ourselves that we knew why we drank, but we went on regardless. Finally […]
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Of course, fortune has its part in human affairs, but conduct is really much more important. —Jeanne Detourbey— Our behavior in small, mean situations is ultimately as grave in its impact on the whole of human relationships as a major action taken in response to a large- scale crisis. No action or expressed attitude is […]
Each day a new Beginning <!--070626-->
Peace, she supposed, was contingent upon a certain disposition of the soul, a disposition to receive the gift that only detachment from self made possible. —Elizabeth Goudge— Self-centeredness, egocentrism, and selfishness are familiar to most of us. We have judged our world and all the situations and people in it in terms of how their […]
Keep it Simple <!--070626-->
When fate hands us a lemon, let’s try to make lemonade. —Dale Carnegie— Our illness is one big lemon, but our recovery is lemonade. None of us signed up to be drunks or drugies, but we all signed up for recovery. That’s when the happiness began. Yes, there will be pain, but the joy will […]
My Thought for the Day <!--070626-->
🌞Good Morning Beautiful, Shining Precious Shining Love ❗🙋💖…As we are rising to the wonderful Journey of our Day, we can start Pondering over the Good intentions and mistakes of Yesterday…🤔🤨 …The things that We could have done or said so much Better, that we can never take back or change…🤬🤖🤷 … or any of the […]
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There is after all no obligation to answer every passing fool according to his folly. —Elias Canetti— Often we behave as though were in other people’s power—as though we were bound to act in certain ways because others expected it from us without their even asking, or our ever checking. Perhaps we have a deep […]
AA Thought for the Day <!--070526-->
Until we came into A.A. most of us had tried desperately to stop drinking. We were filled with the delusion that we could drink like our friends. We tried time and again to take it or leave it, but we could do neither. We always lapsed into ceaseless, unhappy drinking. Families, friends, and employers threw […]