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The Master doesn’t talk, she acts. When her work is done, the people say, “Amazing: we did it, all by ourselves!” Our Higher Power works like the Master. Quietly. In fact, we usually take the credit ourselves! We’re like the child who bakes cookies for the first time. Mother found the recipe, bought the ingredients, […]
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Today was like a shadow. It lurked behind me. It’s now gone forever. Why is it that time is such a difficult thing to befriend? —Mary Casey— Each passing minute is all that we are certain of having. The choice is ever present to relish the moment, reaping fully whatever its benefits, knowing that we […]
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GETTING WELL, p.239 Very deep, sometimes quite forgotten, damaging emotional conflicts persist below the level of consciousness. 12 & 12, pp. 79-80 Only through positive action can I remove the remains of guilt and shame brought on by alcohol. Throughout my misadventures when I drank, my friends would say, “Why are you doing this? You’re […]
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“We of agnostic temperament have found that as soon as we were able to lay aside prejudice and express a willingness to believe in a Power greater than ourselves, we commenced to get results, even though it was impossible for any of us to fully define or comprehend that Power, which we call God. As […]
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“To one who feels he is an atheist or agnostic, a spiritual experience seems impossible, but to continue as he is means disaster. To be doomed to an alcoholic death or to live on a spiritual basis are not always easy alternatives to face. But we have to face the fact that we must find […]
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Life is not always what one wants it to be, but to make the best of it as it is, is the only way of being happy. –Jennie Jerome Churchill— We are generally so certain that we know what’s best for ourselves. And we are just as often certain that what we think is best […]
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Words that do not match deeds are not important. —-Ernesto Ch’e Guevara— What we do can be much more important than what we say. We tend to talk about things we want to do. We need to also be people who do things we talk about. We are not spiritual people unless our actions are […]
Promise of a new Day <!--081725-->
We only do well the things we like doing. —Colette— When you were a child, did you feel you had to do everything you were told to do? If you didn’t preform all tasks well, did you feel something was wrong with you? When we were young, many of us were never told we were […]
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RIGHTING THE HARM In many instances we shall find that though the harm done others has not been great, the emotional harm we have done ourselves has. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 79 Have you ever thought that the harm you did a business associate, or perhaps a family member, was so slight that […]
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Any path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you. —Carlos Castaneda— Our conscience, desires to be heard every step of the way today. And the choice to listen is easy if we’ve developed trust in those messages […]