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Patience is needed with everyone, but first of all with ourselves. —St. Francis de Sales— How do you treat yourself? Do you talk to yourself in a kind and loving voice? We can’t be kind and loving to others until we learn to be kind and loving with ourselves. To live this way, we must […]
New Beginnings <!--041826-->
To oppose something is to maintain it. —Ursula K. LeGuin— Most of our struggles are with other persons or perhaps situations we want to change. We discover that our continual opposition adds fuel to the fires (at least our own internal ones). But can we turn our backs when we feel justified in our opposition? […]
Thought For The Day <!--041826-->
As I look back over my drinking career, have I learned that you take out of life what you put into it? When I put drinking into my life, did I take out a lot of bad things? Hospitals with the D.T.’s? Jails for drunken driving? Loss of job? Loss of home and family? When […]
Each Day a New Beginnings <!--041726-->
I can stand what I know. It’s what I don’t know that frightens me. —Frances Newton— Fear of the unknown, often referred to as free-floating anxiety, catches up to us on occasion. But it needn’t. The program offers us strength whenever we need it, and faith diminishes all fear. It is said that fear cannot […]
Daily Reflections <!--041726-->
LOVE AND FEAR AS OPPOSITES All these failings generate fear, a soul-sickness in its own right. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 49 “Fear knocked at the door; faith answered; no one was there.” I don’t know to whom this quote should be attributed, but it certainly indicates clearly that fear is an illusion. I […]
Promise of a New Day <!--041726-->
Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression. —Dodie Smith— Preoccupation with ourselves exaggerates whatever condition presently haunts us. The temptation to dwell on our pain is so great, it takes strength and serious commitment to emotional health to move our focus to another’s needs. We are slow to learn that our […]
My Thought for the Day <!--041726-->
🌺 Hi Pretty Girl ❗👋💃…What a Beautiful Day we have arisen to…🌞🙋… We are like Beautiful long-stem ROSES… 🌹 We look so beautiful on the outside, But we can also have these thorns on the inside…🥀😳🎋… and sometimes those closest to us get hurt when they touch us or someone who tries too gets to […]
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Every time we go to an A.A. meeting, every time we say the Lord’s Prayer, every time we have a quiet time before breakfast, we’re paying a premium on our insurance against taking that first drink. And every time we help another alcoholic, we’re making a large payment on our drink insurance. We’re making sure […]
Keep It Simple <!--041726-->
We create revolution by living it. —Jerry Rubin— There’s a lot wrong in the world—Child abuse, homeless and hungry people, pollution. Our old way of dealing with these troubles was to break the rules or to “drop out” by using chemicals. Now we have a new way to change the world. We’re changing ourselves. One […]
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In A.A. we have insurance. Our faith in God is a kind of insurance against the terrible things that might happen to us if we ever drink again. By putting our drink problem in the hands of God, we’ve taken out a sort of insurance policy, which insures us against the ravages of drink, as […]