…to have a crisis and act upon it is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another. —Barbara Grizzut Harrison— Exaggerating the negative element in our lives is familiar behavior for all too many of us. But this obsession is our choice. We can stop at any moment. We can decide to let go of a situation that we can’t control, turn it over to God, and be free to look ahead at the possibilities for happiness. Perhaps we can learn to accept a serious situation in our lives as a special opportunity for growth first of all, but even more as an opportunity to let God work in our lives. We learn to trust by giving over our dilemmas to God for solutions. With patience, we will see the right outcomes, and we will more easily turn to God the next time. Crises will lessen in number and in gravity in direct proportion to the partnership we develop with our higher power. The stronger our dependence on that power, for all answers and all directions, the greater will our comfort be in all situations. Serenity is the gift promised when we let God handle our lives. No crisis need worry us. The solution is only a prayer away. I will take action against every crisis confronting me–I will turn to God. Each crisis is an invitation to serenity.
Our Folded Hands
Women helping Women. Reaching out to the Sister who still suffers. Helping each other through the Good times and the Difficult times. To get to the SOBER way of life, One Day at a Time.
Daily Readings And Meditations
New Beginnings
Reflections
A FRAME OF REFERENCE Referring to our list [inventory] again. Putting out of our minds the wrongs others had done, we resolutely looked for our own mistakes. Where had we been selfish, dishonest, self-seeking and frightened? ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 67 There is a wonderful freedom in not needing constant approval from colleagues at work or from the people I love. I wish I had known about this Step before, because once I developed a frame of reference, I felt able to do the next right thing, knowing that the action fit the situation and that it was the correct thing to do.
Promise
A truly total history would cancel itself out—its product would be nought. —Claude Levi-Strauss— The world has been as rich and as varied as it is at this very moment. Wealth and poverty, joy and pain, peace and struggle, have existed side by side. The history of human life has been the history of each person’s journey from birth to death. When we study history, we are always studying someone’s interpretation or argument. The total history could never argue a point or prove an interpretation. We each can tell many true stories about ourselves by selecting facts from our personal histories. Yet our total history will cancel these stories and show us how to be neither saints nor villains, merely seekers. There’s much we can learn from others’ stories. They can illuminate our path; they can persuade us of the wisdom of one choice or another. Yet to be fully human is to escape the neat outlines of such a story. We immerse ourselves in life; we are surrounded by it. I will try to respect everyone’s reality, and to remember that much of the world lies outside my range of vision.
Keep It Simple
The future is made of the same stuff as the present. — Simone Weil— We found we didn’t need magic to recover—we needed a miracle! Now we are walking miracles. Part of our miracle is that we see how important today is. We can’t change our future unless we change today. So we live One Day at a Time. By living today well, we make our future better. There is comfort in knowing that the program will be there. Hope we’ll be there. Old-timers say sobriety is easy if we go by one simple rule: don’t drink and go to meeting. Life can get simpler; they don’t change much. Staying sober will be easier for us over time. Prayer for the Day: Higher Power, help me keep my sobriety simple. Help me accept the rules of life. Action for the Day: I will list three things that will be there for me tomorrow and the next day, because I’m working on them today.
Thought For The Day
“People of faith have a logical idea of what life is all about. There is a wide variation in the way each one of us approaches and conceives of the Power greater than ourselves. Whether we agree with a particular approach or conception seems to make little difference. There are questions for each of us to settle for ourselves. But in each case the belief in a Higher Power has accomplished the miraculous, the humanly impossible. There has come a revolutionary change in their way of living and thinking.” Has there been a revolutionary change in me? Meditation For The Day Worship is consciousness of God’s divine majesty. As you pause to worship, God will help you raise your humanity to His divinity. The earth is a material temple to enclose God’s divinity. God brings to those who worship Him a divine power, a divine love, and a divine healing. You only have to open your mind to Him and try to absorb some of His divine spirit. Pausing quietly in the spirit of worship, turn your inward thoughts upward and realize that His divine power may be yours, that you can experience His love and healing. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may worship God by sensing the eternal Spirit. I pray that I may experience a new power in my life.
My Thoughts For The Day
Our Day can be confusing, even difficult sometimes…😳🙄🤬..leaving us feeling empty, drained, or even dizzy and in a tizzy…🗑🧟🤯/🤬..leaving us feeling empty, drained, or even dizzy and in a tizzy