Each day a new Beginning <!--061126-->
My lifetime listens to yours. —Muriel Rukeyser— Our experiences educate us to help show each other the way. Others’ experiences, likewise, will help still others. We need to share our histories. And the program offers us the way. There is no greater honor we can give one another than rapt attention. We each want to […]
Keep it Simple <!--061026-->
Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be. —Clementine Pappleford— At meetings, we meet people who have what we want. Our old way is to think these people are better or luckier than us. Our old way is to wish we were like them. But our program tells us how to work […]
Promise of a new Day <!--061026-->
The worst sin against our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that’s the essence of inhumanity. — George Bernard Shaw— The greatest Gift we can give is rapt attention to one another’s existence. Of one thing we can be certain: we each are in this world by design. […]
Each day a new Beginning <!--061026-->
When we start at the center of ourselves, we discover something worthwhile extending toward the periphery of the circle. We find again some of the joy in the now, some of the peace in the here, some of the love in me and thee which go to make up the kingdom of heaven on earth. […]
A.A. Thought for the Day <!--061026-->
If we have had some moral, religious, or spiritual training, we’re better prospects for A.A. When we reach the bottom, at this crucial moment when we’re thoroughly licked, we turn instinctively to whatever decency is left in us. We call upon whatever reserves of morality and faith are left down deep in our heart. Have […]
Daily Reflections <!--061026-->
IMPATIENT? TRY LEVITATING We reacted more strongly to frustrations than normal people. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 111 Impatience with other people is one of my principal failings. Following a slow car in a no-passing lane, or waiting in a restaurant for the check, drives me to distraction. Before I give God a chance to […]
My Thought For the Day <!--061026-->
🌈 GOOD MORNING Shooting Star…🌠👋…What does Your Surrender look like❓…😶🏳…Is it a few words to Your Higher Power❓ Is it an Understanding within Yourself or for another❓ Is it complete Defeat❓ Is it a Letting go⁉…🤔🗣💬✍📃…We can find SERENITY in Surrendering our will over to our HIGHER POWER, it is what precedes this, that one […]
Promise of a new Day <!--060926-->
The solution to my life occurred to me one evening while I was ironing a shirt. —Alice Munro— We all receive flashes of illumination, messages likes shafts of lightning from one part of our brain to another. This is the answer! This is the meaning of life! Mathematicians tell stories of equations solved in a […]
My Thought for the Day <!--060926-->
🌞Good Morning Sunshine!!! Strong Woman of this world … 🌎💪 …We have so many Possibilities today❗…But will we choose to see them❗💗👀…The Choice is up to us. We can really open our EYES to the reality unfolding before us. To see Our OPPORTUNITIES to be of service to God, our Fellows and even ourselves…👼🎁…For when […]
Each day a new Beginning <!--060926-->
Many of us achieve only the semblance of communication with others; what we say is often not contingent on what the other has just said, and neither of us is aware that we are not communicating. —Desy Safán-Gerard— When we don’t listen fully to each other, when we don’t revere the Spirit within others that’s […]