Broken Chains Ministries

05/04/2026

Thought for the day: We can only hide our real selves for so long and then the truth comes out. If I am walking around this world trying to put on a false image of who I am then there are some internal problems. I either don't think your gonna like me the way I am, or "I" don't like me the way I am. Why is that...? What can we do to change this...? Trying to be something other than who you are is the reason this world is so fake....We all want to be something else....This is also another reason for addictions. I'm gonna think about this one all day.

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04/29/2026

Thought for the day: Light and dark cannot inhabit the same space.......Our minds cannot think on two things at once...If your having problems with your thought life then try replacing those thoughts with some bible verses...The word of God is light, the darkness cannot be where the light is... (I know it works )

04/26/2026

Thought for the day: When I think of all the troubled lives and dysfunctional people in the bible and yet for God to use them.....there is hope for me :)...there is hope for you. We can never fall too far, sink too low ,become too dirty or get so lost....that Jesus would turn away from you......we are his and he loves you....still :)

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04/25/2026

Thought for the day: To kill a love we must find a greater love.....When we find we need to do something about a issue that is ruling our lives, we have to find our weakness in it and turn it into our strength. We replace the old love for a better one.. God cannot put something new in your hand if you wont let go of what's in it now...

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04/24/2026

Thought for the day: "This is one of my all time fav's"

Let us never fear needed change. Certainly we have to discriminate between changes for better and changes for the worse. Once a need becomes clearly apparent in an individual....it has long since been found that we cannot stand still and look the other way. The essence of all growth is a willingness to change for the better and then an unremitting willingness to shoulder whatever responsibility this entails.

04/19/2026

Thought for the day: Why would I leave it up to anyone else to live my life for me..?? I let drugs tell me who I am......it answered with death. I let alcohol tell me who I am... it answered with death. We let the world tell us who we are and they....answer, with death. How many things do we have in our lives that promote death instead of life, something worth thinking about.

04/19/2026

As Bill Sees It
Trouble: Constructive or Destructive?, p. 110
"There was a time when we ignored trouble, hoping it would go
away. Or, in fear and in depression, we ran from it, but found it was
still with us. Often, full of unreason, bitterness, and blame, we fought back. These mistaken attitudes, powered by alcohol, guaranteed our destruction, unless they were altered.
"Then came A.A. Here we learned that trouble was really a fact of
life for everybody--a fact that had to be understood and dealt with.
Surprisingly, we found that our troubles could, under God's grace, be converted into unimagined blessings.
"Indeed, that was the essence of A.A. itself: trouble accepted,
trouble squarely faced with calm courage, trouble lessened and often transcended. This was the A.A. story, and we became a part of it. Such demonstrations became our stock in trade for the next
sufferer."
Letter, 1966

03/13/2026

Thought for the day: If we try to rely on our own power and or self will, we will find that sooner or later it fails us.....Yet even in the face of adversity and having been shown thru our own action that its not enough, we still will not let go. We refuse to follow another until the pain is too great or we die.....Lord I pray you help us follow your lead and help us to stop imposing our will, which is faulty and replace it with your will which is perfect and true...Amen

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03/11/2026

Daily Reflections

GOOD ORDERLY DIRECTION

It is when we try to make our will conform with God's
that we begin to use it rightly. To all of us, this
was a most wonderful revelation. Our whole trouble had
been the misuse of willpower. We had tried to bombard
our problems with it instead of attempting to bring it
into agreement with God's intention for us. To make
this increasingly possible is the purpose of A.A.'s
Twelve Steps, and Step Three opens the door.
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 40

All I have to do is look back at my past to see where
self-will has led me. I just don't know what's best for
me and I believe my Higher Power does. G.O.D., which I
define as "Good Orderly Direction," has never let me
down, but I have let myself down quite often. Using my
self-will in a situation usually has the same result as
forcing the wrong piece into a jigsaw puzzle--exhaustion
and frustration. Step Three opens the door to the rest of the program. When I ask God for guidance I know that whatever happens is the best possible situation, things are exactly as
they are supposed to be, even if they aren't what I want
or expect. God does for me what I cannot do for myself,
if I let Him.

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03/09/2026

Thought for the day: Be who you really are, nobody else will for you...We get lost when we change ourselves to please others... This is when the lines of who we are and the lines of who we are trying to be gets blurred...

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03/09/2026

Daily Reflections

SURRENDERING SELF-WILL

Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to
the care of God as we understood Him.
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 34

No matter how much one wishes to try, exactly how can
one turn his own will and his own life over to the care
of whatever God he thinks there is? In my search for
the answer to this question, I became aware of the
wisdom with which it was written: that this is a
two-part Step. I could see many times where I should
have died, or at least been injured, during my previous
style of living, and it never happened. Someone, or
something, was looking after me. I choose to believe
my life has always been in God's care. He alone controls
the number of days I will be granted until physical
death. The matter of will (self-will or God's will) is
the more difficult part of the Step for me. It is only
when I have experienced enough emotional pain, through
failed attempts to fix myself, that I become willing
to surrender to God's will for my life. Surrender is
like the calm after the storm. When my will is in line
with God's will for me, there is peace within.

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03/06/2026

Daily Reflections

THE IDEA OF FAITH

Do not let any prejudice you might have against
spiritual terms deter you from honestly asking yourself
what they mean to you.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 47

The idea of faith is a very large chunk to swallow when
fear, doubt and anger abound in and around me. Sometimes
just the idea of doing something different, something I
am not accustomed to doing, can eventually become an act
of faith if I do it regularly, and do it without
debating whether it's the right thing to do. When a bad
day comes along and everything is going wrong, a meeting
or a talk with another drunk often distracts me just
enough to persuade me that everything is not quite as
impossible, as overwhelming as I had thought. In the
same way, going to a meeting or talking to a fellow
alcoholic are acts of faith; I believe I'm arresting
my disease. These are ways I slowly move toward faith
in a Higher Power.

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