Promise of a new Day <!--102825-->
…my work was so long so little appreciated that I learned not to care a scrap for either blame or praise. —James Murray— It’s instructive to look at important figures of the past.So many have fallen into utter obscurity, and people who were quite obscure are now seen as important. Who remembers news columnists or […]
Keep it Simple <!--102725-->
An excuse is worst and more terrible than a lie.—Alexander Pope— Excuses. They’re lies. We use excuses to hide from ourselves. Maybe we don’t want to be honest about our anger. So we say someone else made us angry. Maybe we don’t want to admit how mean we can be. So we pretend we have […]
AA Thought for the Day <!--102725-->
Seventh, I can help other alcoholics. I am of some use in the world. I have a purpose in life. I am worth something at last. My life has a direction and a meaning. All that feeling of futility is gone. I can do something worthwhile. God has given me a new lease on life […]
Daily Reflections <!--102725-->
GLOBAL SHARING The only thing that matters is that he is an alcoholic who has found a key to sobriety. These legacies of suffering and of recovery are easily passed among alcoholics, one to the other. This is our gift from God, and its bestowal upon others like us is the one aim that today […]
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The sun, the hero of every day, the impersonal old man that beams as brightly on death as on birth, came up every morning… —Zora Neale Hurston— Details bog us down. when we count the trees, we never breathe in the forest. Keeping our focus close means escaping the wider ranges of our perception and […]
Each day a new Beginning <!--102725-->
Problems have only the size and the power that you give them. –S. H.— We will not be free from all difficulties today, or during any period of our lives. But we have the personal power to eliminate the threat, the sting of any challenge. But it’s our vision of circumstances that gives them their […]
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My life has been a tapestry of rich and royal hue, an everlasting vision of the ever-changing view. —Carole King— Every event of our lives is contributing a rich thread to our personal tapestry. Each of us is weaving one unique to ourselves, but all of our tapestries are complementary. We need others’ rich designs […]
Daily Reflections <!--102625-->
ONE ULTIMATE AUTHORITY For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority—a loving God as He may express Himself in our group conscience. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 132 When I am chosen to carry some small responsibility for my fellows, I ask that God grant me the patience, open-mindedness, and willingness to […]
Keep it Simple <!--102625-->
Nobody gives you freedom. —Malcolm X— We were not free. We were prisoners of our illness. What our illness wanted, we give it our dignity, our self-respect, even our families. Our prison walls were made of denial, false pride, and self-will run riot. Now we know that brick walls don’t have to stop us. We […]
Promise of a new Day <!--102625-->
Though the seas threaten, they are merciful, I have cursed them without cause. —William Shakespeare— To each of us, our own self is the most important person in the world. I am the only person who can get what I want; you are the only person who can make you happy or unhappy. This doesn’t […]