Wer'e Making a Difference Foundation (People in recovery)

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This committee is AA based, but everyone is welcome... Thank you for your support & God Bless!

01/12/2026

Reflection for the Day

We learn in the program and its Twelve Steps that, as we grow spiritually, we find that our old attitudes toward our instinctual drives need to undergo drastic revisions. Our demands for emotional security and wealth, for personal prestige and power, all have to be tempered and redirected. We learn that the full satisfaction of these demands cannot be the sole end and aim of our lives. But when we're willing to place spiritual growth first - then and only then do we have a real chance to grow in healthy awareness and mature love. Am I willing to place spiritual growth first?

Today I Pray

May my development as a spiritual person temper my habitual hankerings for material security. May I understand that the only real security in life is spiritual? If I have faith in my Higher Power, these revisions in my attitudes will follow. May I grow first in spiritual awareness.

Today I Will Remember
Value the life of the spirit.

01/11/2026

Showing Myself Kindness
It can be easy to get so wrapped up in trying to fit in that I'm not okay with myself. And so I do a lot of work showing myself kindness and forgiving myself for the ways I think and behave. Being okay with me means not judging every other word I say. It's been pretty difficult since my traumatic brain injury, but it's better now.

I'm a Marine. I was a criminal and a drug dealer, so I can be incredibly inappropriate at times. And a lot of time my jokes aren't appropriate for work. But my supervisor has worked very hard with me on showing myself grace and kindness, and just being good enough. For me this means setting reasonable expectations for myself and letting the process go forward.

Today I will practice not judging myself harshly - being okay with who I am and grateful for all I've learned.

01/10/2026

We don't pay our sponsors for their time. Instead, we pay it forward. We turn around and help the next person. That's how the whole thing works.

We all stand on the shoulders of those who have been our teachers, and on the shoulders of those who taught our teachers. When we pick a sponsor for our recovery, we look for someone we admire and trust, someone who has demonstrated success in his recovery.

Perhaps we feel we have a long way to go and a lot to learn. Perhaps we are struck by the big job we have ahead. But all we need to do is make progress. And we don't have to reinvent the wheel. When we learn from our sponsor and from other people in our recovery community who are making progress, we get to stand on their shoulders. They let us see much more than we could see alone.

Today, I am grateful for all the benefits of having a good sponsor.

01/09/2026

Embracing virtues and new attitudes

Because of our addiction, our actions (and inaction) have fostered cynicism, futility, and distrust. How could we ever have hoped to succeed with attitudes like that? Now we are cultivating the virtues of understanding, love, and patience. It is often slow and difficult. We know that our Higher Power loves us and will lead us, if we only ask.

Am I developing new virtues?

Higher Power, take my hand and lead me from the old attitudes toward new virtues.

I will work on the following virtues today..

01/08/2026

I Want You to Know

My hope is that if you are struggling with anything today, you can find the strength to admit it - to yourself and to one other human being. Help is available, but you have to ask for it. You might be tired and discouraged and not believe that there is help for you in this situation, or you might doubt that you truly deserve anybody's help. I want you to know that neither of those things is true.

I want you to know that you can be an advocate for your own needs. My wish for you is that you realize crying out loud can sometimes be the shortcut to getting the help you need. That has been my experience. I want you to know that it was hard for me to figure out and then come to believe that I was worthy of receiving love and support from others, personally and professionally. It took me time to figure out that I wasn't defective, that I was (and still am) just a human being with struggles. My struggles were not insurmountable when I asked for help.

Our struggles start to lose their hold over us when we ask for help.

01/07/2026

We did not all come over on the same ship, but we were all in the same boat.

As we listen to others' stories and tell our own, we see that there are many roads into this program. Some of us hit bottom. Others were spared the worst catastrophes, getting the message of recovery early. In the final analysis, we are all in the same boat with our powerlessness. The differences are superficial. There is no higher or lower status for anyone in our program. When it comes to the power of our addictions and codependencies, we are equally in need of help from our Higher Power.

Perhaps there was a time when we felt totally alone with our problems. But we were alone, just like thousands of others needing recovery. Because we all have suffered and know our need for help, we can now have a caring and supportive group. We can turn to our brothers and sisters in the program, knowing that they are in the same boat, and they will understand. No one else provides that kind of healing relationship.

I am grateful for the closeness I have with others who are in the same boat with me.

01/06/2026

You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.

Each of us has been given recovery. Now it's up to each of us what we do with it. At times, we'll work hard and grow quickly. At other times, our growth will be slower. This is okay. We're not in a race. Our pace is not important. What is important is that we're always working on our recovery.

We're all part of a fellowship, a caring group. We're one of many. But each of us is important. Each one of us will have a special way to work our programs through our readings, friends, meetings, and what we know of how life works. Each of us puts together a miracle of recovery. We then take our miracle and share it with others, so they can build their miracle.

Prayer for the Day
Higher Power, help me work at growing. Help me be a person who is an important part of a group.

Action for the Day
Today I'll work at seeing myself as very important. I'll remind myself that others' recovery also depends on my recovery. I am needed.

01/05/2026

Life gives us so much time to collect bizarre thoughts and feelings.

As we go through life, we run into all kinds of negative messages: teasing on the school bus, insulting nicknames, and other put-downs.

Pretty soon we may discover that some of these messages stick in our minds, repeating themselves over and over like broken records. These messages can make us feel bad about ourselves. But when we hear one of these tapes playing inside us, we have the power to push the STOP button. Then we can record a new message. We can even say it out loud, so that our voice settles emphatically into our thoughts.

We can't make others stop saying these things, but we can stop listening to them. They only have power over us when we give it to them. We have the ability and freedom to let negative thoughts float by us, like water going downstream.

What positive message can I send to myself?

01/04/2026

AA Thought for the Day

When I was drinking, I was absolutely selfish. I thought of myself first, last, and always. The universe revolved around me. When I woke up in the morning with a hangover, my only thought was how terrible I felt and what I could do to make myself feel better. And the only thing I could think of was more liquor. To quit was impossible. I couldn't see beyond myself and my own need for another drink. Can I now look out and beyond my own selfishness?

Meditation for the Day

Remember that the first quality of greatness is service. In a way, God is the greatest servant of all, because He is always waiting for us to call on Him to help us in all good endeavors. His strength is always available to us, but we must ask it of Him through our own free will. It is a free gift, but we must sincerely seek it. A life of service is the finest life we can live. We are here on earth to serve others. That is the beginning and the end of our real worth.

Prayer for the Day

I pray that I may cooperate with God in all good things. I pray that I may serve God and others and so lead a useful and happy life.

01/03/2026

Shortcomings
Search out shortcomings and correct them.

One of the hardest things to do is to look at our own shortcomings when we are angry at someone. It seems impossible to believe at such times that something may be wrong with us. This is the reason we are so often instructed to count to ten. When we find ourselves so out of sorts, so internally disrupted, there is usually something wrong with us.

It is our first obligation to take care of ourselves. It is out of love for ourselves that we withdraw and take a spot-check inventory. The spot-check inventory does not demean or humiliate us. On the contrary, the purpose is to speak with God briefly, check our vital signs, and clean out our connections.

I always need my connection with God. Nothing works without a clear, clean, strong, conscious contact with my Higher Power.

01/02/2026

Our own gentleness is a powerful force in our lives. It is like the gentle flower that grows through granite.

We are attracted to people who have cultivated a gentle spirit. Their softness nurtures all of us who come into their space. We are soothed and made whole by their caring spirit. Let's allow our caring spirit to develop too. The aggression we may have grown accustomed to in our families and neighborhoods need not claim us for all time. We have the power within us to chart a new course.

We have examples of gentleness all around us; they are our guides and are here by divine appointment.

Whatever task we are destined to perform in this clean and sober life can best be accomplished if directed by a heart that cares. Being gentle promises each of us the same comfort it offers others. Each gentle act heals our heart and lovingly nurtures the future.

Being gentle today is much easier than being mean-spirited. My gentle side will nurture my inner child and remove my fears.

01/01/2026

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Never doubt that a small group of committed people can change the world.

We are on a path of change. None of us has become perfect, but we have made significant progress. We are less the victims of old obsessions and compulsions. We're no longer weighed down by such low self-esteem. We have begun connecting to ourselves and our Higher Power. We've made worthy commitments. We're learning to trust ourselves.

Today, we are freer to rock the boat. We do not have to accept the status quo, either in our own lives or in the community and world around us. We can begin to engage in the revolutionary act of becoming ourselves fully, living our values, accepting our own power to help in the creation of understanding, love, peace, light, and brotherhood and sisterhood in the world. We can cooperate with others who share our ideals.

There is hope for the world as long as each one of us knows that we're capable of continuing to grow and change.

Today, I help to create positive change in myself and in my world.

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