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The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form. —Stanley J. Randall— Trying to be perfect get us into trouble. Trying to be perfect means we’re trying to control things. We may be trying to cover up something. Maybe we aren’t facing our pain. Maybe we’ve hurt […]
My Thought for the Day <!--062726-->
🌺Welcome to Your Morning Sunshine❗…🌞🙋…The Mind can be a Beautiful Place, full of Creativity, imagination, Positivity and miraculous outlooks to help us see the world as a simplistic realm of Possibilities…👩🎓👩🏫🎸🏅…Or it can be the hell-hole we create in an instance…🙂🧠🤺😈🔥 …Thinking to ourselves, “I don’t remember turning into this DARK ALLEY!!” …🚗🚦🌃=👹… Fortunately for […]
Each day a new Beginning<!--062726-->
Often God shuts a door in our face, and then subsequently opens the door through which we need to go. —Catherine Marshall— We try and try to control the events of our lives. And not seldom the events in others’ lives, too. The occasions are frequent when our will conflicts with God’s. Then for a […]
AA Thought for the Day <!--062726-->
If you can take your troubles as they come, if you can maintain your calm and composure amid pressing duties and unending engagements, if you can rise above the distressing and disturbing circumstances in which you are set down, you have discovered a priceless secret of daily living. Even if you are forced to go […]
Daily Reflections <!--062726-->
CONFORMING TO THE A.A. WAY We obey A.A.’s Steps and Traditions because we really want them for ourselves. It is no longer a question of good or evil; we conform because we genuinely want to conform. Such is our process of growth in unity and function. Such is the evidence of God’s grace and love […]
Keeping it Simple <!--062726-->
Hell is not to love anymore. —Geogre Bernanos— Someone in an AA group said, “From the first day I started this program, I felt like I had died and gone to heaven.” This person had walked into a room full of love. In recovery, we are spiritual people because we believe in love. We have […]
Promise of a new Day <!--062726-->
Science probes; it does not prove. —Gregory Bateson— We crave security. Even the most restless and adventurous among us has a need for bedrock certainty about something. Religion fills this need for some; politics or ideas satisfy others. When this need is answered, we can achieve a measure of serenity. Where does this need come […]
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Mental health, like dandruff, crops up when you least expect it. —Robin Worthington— We’re responsible for the effort but not the outcome. Frequently, a single problem or many problems overwhelm us. We may feel crazy, unable to cope and certain that we have made no progress throughout this period of recovery. But we have. Each […]
Keeping it Simple <!--062626-->
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.—Albert Camus— Sometimes we said, we’re getting our lives together. Together with what? With our selves. The Twelve Steps help us clean up the mess we’ve made. We’re fixing our mistakes. We’re looking at ourselves closely—at what we believe, what […]
Daily Reflections <!--062626-->
A GIFT THAT GROWS WITH TIME For most normal folks, drinking means conviviality, companionship and colorful imagination. It means release from care, boredom and worry. It is joyous intimacy with friends and a feeling that life is good. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 151 The longer I chased these elusive feelings with alcohol, the more out of […]