Daily Reflections & Daily Readings

Motivation
2424

Screenshot_20260403_074036_Chrome
Screenshot_20260403_074036_Chrome995×873 204 KB

2 Likes
2425

Screenshot_20260403_074108_Chrome
Screenshot_20260403_074108_Chrome1004×394 147 KB

2 Likes
2426

Screenshot_20260403_074318_Chrome
Screenshot_20260403_074318_Chrome1079×773 190 KB

2 Likes
2427

God, help me accept all the twists and turns along my path. Help me to say whatever to the good and the unfortunate incidents that come my way.
–Melody Beattie

“When we walk in God’s light, we are transformed.”
–Eleanor Park Kammer

2 Likes
2428

Screenshot_20260404_074824_Chrome
Screenshot_20260404_074824_Chrome1036×762 191 KB

2 Likes
2429

Screenshot_20260404_074900_Chrome
Screenshot_20260404_074900_Chrome1044×999 271 KB

2 Likes
2430

Screenshot_20260404_074925_Chrome
Screenshot_20260404_074925_Chrome1016×753 168 KB

2 Likes
2431

“Voices we prefer to ignore may speak words we need to hear.”
–Don Deal

“If there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could be better changed in ourselves.”
–Carl Jung

“In forgiving ourselves, we make the journey from guilt for what we have done (or not done) to celebration of what we have become.”
–Joan Borysenko

2 Likes
2432

TRUE BROTHERHOOD

We have not once sought to be one in a family, to be a friend among friends, to be a worker among workers, to be a useful member of society. Always we tried to struggle to the top of the heap, or to hide underneath it. This self-centered behavior blocked a partnership relation with any one of those about us. Of true brotherhood we had small comprehension.
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 53

This message contained in Step Four was the first one I heard loud and clear; I hadn’t seen myself in print before! Prior to my coming into A.A., I knew of no place that could teach me how to become a person among persons. From my very first meeting, I saw people doing just that and I wanted what they had. One of the reasons that I’m a happy, sober alcoholic today is that I’m learning this most important lesson.

From the book Daily Reflections.
Copyright © 1990 by Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc. All rights reserved.

2 Likes
2433

Screenshot_20260405_083140_Chrome
Screenshot_20260405_083140_Chrome974×943 202 KB

2 Likes
2434

Walk in Dry Places

Letting Go of Resentment

Releasing the Past

How can we really put an end to festering resentments toward other people? “Pray for these people,” the Old-timers said. “Go out of your way to do something good for them.” This is a big order for most of us, but we are working for a big reward: Sobriety, peace of mind, and personal progress.

When we pray for others in this manner, we’re practicing the noble art of forgiveness. How do we know when it’s staring to work? Lewis B. Smedes, a master teacher of forgiveness, offers this thought: “You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.”

Forgiveness also is supposed to include forgetting the wrong. What we really forget is the hurt connected with it. When anything that once evoked pain comes to mind, we’re growing spiritually if it no longer has the power to hurt us.
We then discover that we had been letting go our resentments hurt us again and again. We also learn that one effort to forgive is not nearly enough. Forgiveness takes the same amount of practice and emotional power we put into carrying the resentment!

Today will bring enough problems. I don’t have either the time or the energy to play the old tapes that cause me pain. I’ll practice praying for those who hurt me, and I’ll take it for granted that my HIgher Power is removing my resentments.

2 Likes
2435

Keep It Simple

Go outside, to the fields, enjoy nature and the sunshine, go out and try to recapture happiness in yourself and in God.—Anne Frank

Many of us look at the joy and beauty of the program with caution. It was different from our addictive joy. Was it to be trusted? When we started working the Steps, we found inner joy and beauty. As we let go and gave in to the program, we found more happiness. We found joy in ourselves, our friends, our Higher Power, and those around us. Our self-pity changed to self-respect. We were truly out in the sunshine. We were no longer lost in misery. We know how to walk through misery to find joy.

Prayer for the Day: May I become better friends with myself. Higher Power, let me see the world through Your innocent, yet wise and loving eyes
Action for the Day: Today I’ll work to make my life and the lives of others more joyful. I’ll greet myself and others with much joy.

2 Likes
2436

You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
–Tom Wilson

The difficulties of life are intended to make us better, not bitter.
–Anon.

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.
–William Feather

2 Likes
2437

Screenshot_20260406_053854_Chrome
Screenshot_20260406_053854_Chrome868×1038 237 KB

2 Likes
2438

Keep It Simple

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.—Chinese proverb

We’re going down a new-road—in our recovery and in our lives. We don’t know the road. We only know we’re on the right one, because our Higher Power led us here. We ask for help from those who already know the road. We ask our sponsor, “How far is it until I get done feeling guilty?”
“How far to self-love?” “How bumpy is the road when I’m at Step Four?” We need people who have been in the program. They tell us where to slow down because this part of the trip is beautiful.

Someday, maybe today, we too will be called on to guide others.

Prayer for the Day: Higher Power, You’ve put me on this road. You’ve also put others on this road. Let them be my guide. Let my guides become my friends.

Action for the Day: Today, I’ll find someone who has been in the program two or more years longer than me. I’ll ask that person what the road ahead is like.

2 Likes
2439

God, help me to let go of my need to control and to be open to the flow of the universe.
-Melody Beattie

“Notice the acts of kindness other people do rather than their wrongdoing. This is how the loving presence views you. We are all good, decent, loving souls who occasionally get lost.”
–Wayne Dyer

“When things go wrong, don’t go with them.”
–Anon.

“It wasn’t raining when Noah built the ark.”
–Howard Ruff

2 Likes
2440

Screenshot_20260407_064036_Chrome
Screenshot_20260407_064036_Chrome1021×1163 288 KB

1 Like
2441

Screenshot_20260407_064103_Chrome
Screenshot_20260407_064103_Chrome1037×680 155 KB

2 Likes
2442

Each Day a New Beginning

It is only when people begin to shake loose from their preconceptions, from the ideas that have dominated them, that we begin to receive a sense of opening, a sense of vision. --Barbara Ward

A sense of vision, seeing who we can dare to be and what we can dare to accomplish, is possible if we focus intently on the present and always the present. We are all we need to be, right now. We can trust that. And we will be shown the way to become who we need to become, step by step, from one present moment to the next present moment. We can trust that, too.

The past that we hang onto stands in our way. Many of us needlessly spend much of our lives fighting a poor self-image. But we can overcome that. We can choose to believe we are capable and competent. We can be spontaneous, and our vision of all that life can offer will change–will excite us, will cultivate our confidence.

We can respond to life wholly. We can trust our instincts. And we will become all that we dare to become.

Each day is a new beginning. Each moment is a new opportunity to let go of all that has trapped me in the past. I am free. In the present, I am free.

2 Likes
2443

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
–John Powell

Devote uninterrupted chunks of time to the most important people in your life.
–Brian Tracy

Nothing is better than experiencing joy except sharing it with someone else.
–Deanna Smythe

There shall be an eternal summer in the grateful heart.
–Celia Thaxter

2 Likes