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09/06/2025

Becoming open-minded
When we first came into this beloved fellowship, some of us felt that members were narrow-minded and so it would be hard to make friends. But that was just our fear and projection talking. How many fellowships embrace members of such varied backgrounds (age, race, occupation, and income)?

Most of us had much more limited contacts before we joined the fellowship. Now, as we become less narrow-minded, we lose some of our fear and discover some very open-minded people in this fellowship.

Am I becoming more open-minded?

Higher Power, help me accept and embrace the fact that I was led to this fellowship because I truly needed help.

Today I will practice being open-minded by...

09/05/2025

The Seasons of Grief
Grief changes like the seasons, and it comes around just as surely. In the aftermath of loss, we feel numb, in shock, unable to process thoughts or complete tasks. Emotional and physical paralysis may be the norm. When we do start easing back into our life, our movements can feel robotic and programmed; even so, it feels like progress.

We might not be feeling anything emotionally, but moving our body and pretending that things are normal occasionally can feel scary, like we are dismissing our grief and the thing or person we are grieving. That feels like betrayal to us.

Timelines vary, but eventually we find ourselves feeling a little lighter, and after a while, lighter still. It might take a long time before we smile or laugh again, but one day we will. It's important to know that we can be plunged back into fulsome grief at any time, and after a few rounds, a few seasons of the ups and downs, we will find our footing in our new normal. Life after whatever or whomever we lost will be forever different, but it's still our life, and we will find a way to live it.

Grief changes, ebbs, and flows. But it's always there.

09/04/2025

Spontaneity is the quality of being able to do something just because you feel like it at the moment, of trusting your instincts, of taking yourself by surprise, and snatching from the clutches of your well-organized routine a bit of unscheduled pleasure.

The idea of turning our lives and our will over to the care of God is a very revolutionary thing to do. We are being told, "Let go of your excessive carefulness. Let the spirit guide you." When we are in touch with ourselves, with the people around us, with God, we are free to experiment. We don't learn from doing the same things correctly again and again. We learn from trying new things and making mistakes.

Overcontrol is spiritually deadening. This is a program of life. Our renewal is a miraculous event. Why stop now? We can be in touch with the messages around us without trying to control the outcome. When we let God do the worrying, we find many possibilities open up.

As this adventure of life unfolds, I will not shy away from it.

09/03/2025

If there's a harder way of doing something, someone will find it.

When we used alcohol or other drugs, we did most things the hard way. We could turn a simple task into a daylong project. We could turn a simple problem into an argument. We were creative giants in doing things the hard way!

We need to change this. We deserve easier lives. It's okay to take the smooth road. In our program, we have slogans for this: Keep it simple, Let go and let God, First things first, and Easy does it. These slogans remind us that it's okay to live with as little trouble as possible.

Prayer for the Day
Higher Power, show me how to live a simple life. I don't have to do everything the hard way if I listen better to You.

Action for the Day
I'll list three or four things I do that make my life harder than it needs to be. I'll share them with a friend.

09/02/2025

Only with winter-patience
Can we bring
The deep desire,
Long-awaited spring.

Family life requires patience. We probably realized that a long time ago. The Greek origin of the word patience is pathos, which means ''suffering." In our lives together, we often suffer. Life is full of bumps and scrapes, both physical and emotional. In our search for greater family unity and harmony, we need to realize that we will not be able to escape all suffering. This is why we need patience. It is a form of love.

When we suffer the bumps and scrapes and still have faith that something good will come of it, we are living out our love. From this winter patience, we will surely find a reward.

How have I practiced my patience already today?

09/01/2025

AA Thought for the Day
As we became alcoholics, the bad effects of drinking came more and more to outweigh the good effects. But the strange part of it is that, no matter what drinking did to us - loss of our health, our jobs, our money, and our homes - we still stuck to it and depended on it. Our dependence on drinking became an obsession. In AA, we find a new outlook on life. We learn how to change from alcoholic thinking to sober thinking. And we find out that we can no longer depend on drinking for anything. We depend on a Higher Power instead. Have I entirely given up dependence on drinking?

Meditation for the Day
I will try to keep my life calm and unruffled. This is my great task, to find peace and acquire serenity. I must not harbor disturbing thoughts. No matter what fears, worries, and resentments I may have, I must try to think of constructive things until calmness comes. Only when I am calm can I act as a channel for God's spirit.

Prayer for the Day
I pray that I may build up instead of tear down. I pray that I may be constructive and not destructive.

08/31/2025

Next time you're feeling at odds with yourself, make a list of your good qualities ... things like generosity and patience and thrift. It will surprise you to discover how nice you really are.

Some days we just feel out of sorts and down on ourselves. In this program, we place great importance on self-inventories. We confront our defects and our wrongs, and we make lists of them to hold ourselves responsible. Any good inventory counts both assets and liabilities. On a day when we feel burdened with guilt or weakness, we ought to remind ourselves of the best of who we are. Remember the good deeds that we have done. Remember what we do well, and don't minimize those assets. If we are going to build on our strengths, we have to see them for what they are.

Our attitude toward ourselves and toward life is partly a matter of mental discipline. It does no good for anyone if we sit passively in our negativity. We can learn to affirm that we are children of creation, and we have a right to be here. Despite our imperfections, we are a force for good.

Today, I will carry in my thoughts some of my good qualities.

08/30/2025

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?

Always seeing our struggles as the fault of others is a good indication that we need an attitude adjustment. There is no better place to get one than in this program of recovery. The women around us and the Steps that guide us can help us discover the joy of cultivating a new attitude.

Trying to determine the grand purpose of our lives can be overwhelming and anxiety-provoking. As alcoholics, we gravitate toward complicating the simple. That's why one of our slogans is "Keep it simple." We can apply this to all our relationships. Asking ourselves what we can do to help someone else at every opportunity defines our purpose in life quite clearly. Moment by moment, we'll never doubt what to do next.

My purpose is to help someone else today. If I think someone is causing me a problem, perhaps I should address my attitude.

08/29/2025

God creates out of nothing. Therefore, until a man is nothing, God can make nothing out of him.

To bring our addictions under control, we had to surrender them - and our willpower - to a higher authority. God relieves us of our compulsions as soon as we admit that we are powerless over them. But surrender doesn't end there. If we wish to move beyond that point - to grow spiritually, to gain peace of mind - relinquishing our self-will must become habitual. We must give God a clean slate every hour, every day.

When we think we have everything under control, we are in trouble. Moreover, it is when we admit we do not know how to run our lives that peace returns. We invite God back by turning a deaf ear to our selfish ego.

I offer God a clean slate on which to write my life.

08/28/2025

Anonymity
Anonymity is so important, it is half our name.

The Twelfth Tradition of our fellowship states clearly the value we place on our anonymity. It is so important that it becomes part of our identity. We have found the secret to making the many into one. We have discovered the key to fellowship. This Tradition cuts across all the ways we try to separate ourselves from each other.

There is no amount of money, no special title, no circumstance that can break anonymity. We are joined by the one thing we have in common: our disease.

Even though we're anonymous, we're still members of the most exclusive club in the world. The only requirement is that we have a problem and a sincere desire to solve it. Our program reminds us that when we attend meetings, we let "who we see there, what we hear there," stay there when we leave.

My anonymous membership in this exclusive club allows me to live a life of many rewards.

08/27/2025

If they try to rush me, I always say, "I've only got one other speed - and it's slower."

We tend to feel ourselves under pressure to perform, to produce, to excel. But pressure makes us feel rushed, and we become careless with ourselves and with others. We miss seeing and enjoying the small, simple things in life. We get things and people out of focus.

Pressure can come from inside, too - from our shame and sense of unworthiness. Then we find it difficult to look the world in the eye because of our secretive lives. We may feel we have to keep moving to prevent ourselves from assessing the true nature of our addiction and the harm it has done to ourselves and others.

But now we know we can slow down and take each day, each hour, and each minute as it comes. By slowing down, we learn to see the world more clearly and enjoy the company of others. We do have time to get to know ourselves and reach out to others. The reward is a deeper, quieter, lovelier life.

Time is not an enemy to be conquered, but part of the rhythm of life. Each day, I try to slow down and live.

08/26/2025

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

We live in a broken, shattered world. This has been true for a long time - maybe for as long as people have lived on the earth. Some people lie, fight, and steal from others. Thousands of people on this earth starve to death every day, while others live in luxury. People are polluting the land and waters of the Earth. The mean and ruthless have grabbed too much power in the world.

These problems are way too big for us. Fixing them is not our job. But we can help heal the part of the world where we live. Step Twelve tells us how. When we work the first eleven Steps, we wake up spiritually. Then "Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs." What principles? Faith, for one. Faith, first.

Prayer for the Day
Higher Power, please help me have faith today. Let faith replace my fear so that I am open to your energy. Help me give it away to others. Use me to spread a bit of healing energy in my part of the world today.

Today's Action
Today, I will believe in the healing power of recovery principles. I will notice my actions that help heal the world: when I smile at another person, when I pick up a piece of garbage, when I hold a door open for someone.

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