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🌹 Good morning My Strong, Resilient SISTER❗…When we feel down or sad, Happy or Glad, mad or angry…😞😖😊🤬…We tend to react off these initial feelings and this can be because we are feeling offended, shamed, disrespected or elated and over-joyous…🤨😤😱🤦…But when we can start our day out with our HIGHER POWER and the GIFTS of […]
Keep it Simple <!--100725-->
We never thought we could get old.—Bob Dylan— Here we are no longer children. Yet we’re not quite grown up either. At least, we don’t always feels grown up. Our program helps us accept the stages of our life. And the child in our heart is getting happier. In some ways, we feel younger everyday. […]
Daily Reflections <!--100725-->
DAILY MONITORING Continued to take personal inventory. . . . . TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 88 The spiritual axiom referred to in the Tenth Step– “every time we are disturbed, no matter what the cause, there is something wrong with us”–also tells me that there are no exceptions to it. No matter how […]
Each day a new Beginning <!--100725-->
There is a divine plan of good at work in my life. I will let go and let it unfold. —Ruth P. Freedman— We are never certain of the full importance or the eventual impact of any single event in our lives. But of one thing we can be sure: Each experience offers something valuable […]
AA Thought for the Day <!--100725-->
Do I put too much reliance on any one member of the group? That is, do I make a tin god out of some one person? Do I set that person on a pedestal? If I do, I am building my house on sand. A.A. members have “clay feet.” They are all only one drink […]
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Many people are living in an emotional jail without recognizing it. —Virginia Satir— Each of us is blessed with an internal guide, a source able to direct our actions if we but acknowledge it. Never are we in doubt for long about what path to take. The courage to take it might not be immediately […]
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If you do not tell the truth about yourself, you cannot tell it about other people. —Virginia Woolf— Working the Twelve Steps helps us learn the truth. As we struggle with Step Four, we learn the truth about ourselves. We learn even more about ourselves by doing Steps Eight and Ten. When we admit the […]
Promise of a new Day <!--100625-->
I was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy. —Marie Curie— Some of our goals are easily attained. Others demand stamina and resourcefulness. And still others require a commitment of long standing, a willingness to postpone gratification, but most of all, an acceptance of possible failure. We can never be certain […]
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Is it my desire to be a big shot in A.A.? Do I always want to be up front in the limelight? Do I feel that nobody else can do as good a job as I can? Or am I willing to take a seat in the back row once in a while and let […]
Daily Reflections <!--100625-->
FACING OURSELVES . . . . and Fear says, “You dare not look!” TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 49 How often I avoided a task in my drinking days, just because it appeared so large! Is it any wonder even if I have been sober for some time, that I will act that same […]