Promise of a new Day <!--093025-->
Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to error that counts. —Nikki Giovanni— We’re not perfect. Our mistakes are consistent with the lessons we’ve been assigned to learn. We strive for perfection in ourselves and sometimes we demand it of others. And when we fall short of the mark, we frequently feel […]
Promise of a new Day <!--092925-->
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word “happiness” would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. —Carl Gustav Jung— Life is full of contrasts. What we perceive or feel at this moment is often heightened by an experience we just passed through. It’s the sum […]
A.A.Thought for the Day <!--092925-->
Having got this far, shall we pause and ask ourselves some searching questions? We need to check up on ourselves periodically. Just how good an A.A. am I? Am I attending meetings regularly? Am I doing my share to carry the load? When there is something to be done, do I volunteer? Do I speak […]
Each day a new Beginning <!--092925-->
Female friendships that work are relationships in which women help each other to belong to themselves. —Louise Bernikow— To have anything worth giving to a friend, we must belong to ourselves. Are we someone we like? Does our behavior agree with our beliefs? Do our friends share our values, and when we are together do […]
Daily Reflections <!--092925-->
EXACTLY ALIKE Frequent contact with newcomers and with each other is the bright spot of our lives. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 89 A man came to the meeting drunk, interrupted the speakers, stood up and took his shirt off, staggered loudly back and forth for coffee, demanded to talk, and eventually called the group’s secretary an […]
My Thought for the Day <!--092925-->
🌺 Rise and Shine Precious Sister ❗…🌞🛌🙋 …What a Beautiful time we have to live and give to one another…🤗👭…We can now start learning from our mistakes of the past…🙄✍👩🎓…By using this help of our HIGHER POWER in our today’s…We can see what happens when we are doing the wrong things, instead of try new […]
My Thought for the Day <!--092825-->
🌺Welcome to Your Day Beautiful COURAGEOUS Friend ❗👋🤗 …So Happy to have Your Presence in This Big Wonderful World ❗…😊🌏…Are We doing our BEST to LIVE LIFE on LIFE’S TERMS❓…🤔🤦🤩…Looking at where we are in the RIGHT NOW, keeping a POSITIVE INNER DIALOGUE to the Best of our ABILITY❗…🤣🗣💃… Whether we are in The Beauty […]
Keep it Simple <!--092825-->
Keep coming back.. it works if you work it. Fortitude a popular self-help book noted that there is tremendous power in repetition…. like the tap-tap-tap of a hammer that finally drives the nail through a board. AA works in much the same way; attendance at meetings is the steady tap-tap-tap that helps bring about lasting […]
Promise of a new Day <!--092825-->
Honor: what a spiky, uncomfortable thing it can be. I expect the young are wise to be dropping it. —Rose macaulay— Each generation looks at its children with mangled pride and horror and thinks they are destroying standards, overturning values, and generally going to wrack and ruin. In Greece, in the fourth century B.C., Plato […]
Each day a new Beginning <!--092825-->
I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome. —Golda Meir— Living a principled life is what the inner self desires. It’s what God desires. And it’s […]