AA Thought for the Day <!--020326-->
By drinking, we escaped from boredom for a while. We almost forgot our troubles. But when we sobered up, our troubles were twice as bad. Drinking had only made them worse. In A.A., we really escape boredom. Nobody’s bored at an A.A. meeting. We stick around after it’s over and we hate to leave. Drinking […]
Daily Reflections <!--020326-->
FILLING THE VOID We needed to ask ourselves but one short question. “Do I now believe, or am I even willing to believe, that there is a Power greater than myself?” As soon as a man can say that he does believe, or is willing to believe, we emphatically assure him that he is on […]
Keep it Simple <!--020326-->
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.—Erma Bombeck— We often hear, “Stick with the winners.” Not everyone in Twelve Step meetings is there for recovery.. But many members follow a Twelve Step way of living. We need to find those people. This is really true when it comes to finding a sponsor. […]
Promise of a new Day <!--020226-->
…we ourselves are only fragments of existence, and our lived life does not fill the whole of our capacity to feel and to conceive. —Paul Valéry— Our feelings are bigger than we are. The love, sorrow, fear, or rage that any one off us feels at any moment is just a thin slice of a […]
My Thought for the Day <!--020226-->
🌈Hello Beauty of the WORLD❗…🙋🌎…We can walk this Wonderful journey Hand and hand with our Higher Power who can give all we need to get us through our Day…✨🤝👩❤️… We just have to be alert to the experience and then the lessons. But it will always help make Us stronger and give us opportunity to […]
Each Day a New Beginning <!--020226-->
What most of us want is to be heard, to communicate. —Dory Previn— Our personhood is denied; the self we are presenting to the word is negated each time we speak, yet go unheard. “The greatest gift we can give one another is rapt attention.” If we want attention, we must also give it. That […]
Keep it Simple <!--020226-->
We must believe the things we teach our children. —Woodrow Wilson— It may be easy to say the words and phrases we’ve heard without really meaning them. Someone says something at a meeting that sounds good. Our counselor has a favorite saying. We may say these words, but are we taking the time to ask […]
AA Thought for the Day <!--020226-->
We got a kick out of the first few drinks, before we got stupefied by alcohol. For a while, the world seemed to look brighter. But how about the letdown, the terrible depression that comes the morning after? In A.A., we get a real kick, not a false feeling of exhilaration, but a real feeling […]
Daily Reflections <!--020226-->
RESCUED BY SURRENDERING Characteristic of the so-called typical alcoholic is a narcissistic egocentric core, dominated by feelings of omnipotence, intent on maintaining at all costs its inner integrity…. Inwardly the alcoholic brooks no control from man or God. He, the alcoholic, is and must be the master of his destiny. He will fight to the […]
Daily Reflections <!--020126-->
GOAL: SANITY “…Step Two gently and very gradually began to infiltrate my life. I can’t say upon what occasion or on what day I came to believe in a power greater than myself, but I certainly have that belief now.” TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 27 “Came to believe!” I gave lip service to […]